Advantages: Swashbuckling heroic cheesy fun, fluid reading at times, its Conan NOT Arnold! Disadvantages: Politically incorrect in parts, though not a major fault it does dampen it somewhat.
Conan the Cimmerian? … Conan the Barbarian? … Conan the Austrian bodybuilder? Whatever springs into your head when you think of Conan, these books are where it all began. He was immortalised in the two films where he was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and as adaptations go the first film (which s the only one I've seen) is very faithful, and it features material from this, the first of two collections of Conan's adventures. Yet the stories by Robert ... ...furry kittens you've come to the right place. (Alright I didn't mean the last one, there's no brutal murdering of cats never fear …. No honestly there isn't! Eeeerrrrrr….)
The author of the Conan tales is one Robert E Howard, a man who in the course of his short life wrote a good deal of adventures set in the mythical Hyborian age of this world, a sort of timeline before pre history, where war was constant and the rise and fall of empires was as ...
Gildor_Inglorion 04.02.2006
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