A newbie introduces himself

[Mr. Carnelian]

I've had a friend try to get me to read the Elric books for years, but I've never gotten around to doing it. Not sure where a good place to start is really. Any suggestions you'd give for books by Moorcock?

I know I might come under fire from Moorcock fans, but my advice is to NOT read the Elric books. I love The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy, but nothing else of Moorcock's has really grabbed me. The Dancers at the End of Time are also some of the few Moorcock books not completely bogged down in continuity: you can read and understand them perfectly well without having read anything else by Moorcock, which isn't really the case with a lot of his work.