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Conan The Freebooter (Conan the Barbarian)
Heroic fantasy's mightiest adventurer fights his most savage battles in these five thrilling stories:
* Hawks Over Shem
* Black Colossus
* Shadows in the Moonlight
* The Road of the Eagles
* A Witch Shall be Born
Conan, the hero of all Howard's heroes, is the armoured swashbuckler, indestructible and irresistible, that we've all wanted to be at one time or another; the women, in...more
* Hawks Over Shem
* Black Colossus
* Shadows in the Moonlight
* The Road of the Eagles
* A Witch Shall be Born
Conan, the hero of all Howard's heroes, is the armoured swashbuckler, indestructible and irresistible, that we've all wanted to be at one time or another; the women, in...more
Paperback, 223 pages
Published
1981
by Ace
(first published 1968)
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The best of the Conan Collections! Tons of swordplay and Romance!
What a lot of people don't know is that Robert E. Howard only wrote a handful of CONANS before dying young. Friends and not-so-much friends soon "hijacked" Conan to write their own tales. But the original is still the greatest!
This volume has some of the best ORIGINAL Conan stories ever written. What's really amazing is not just the swordplay but the romance. If you read SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT it's all from the slave girl's pers...more
What a lot of people don't know is that Robert E. Howard only wrote a handful of CONANS before dying young. Friends and not-so-much friends soon "hijacked" Conan to write their own tales. But the original is still the greatest!
This volume has some of the best ORIGINAL Conan stories ever written. What's really amazing is not just the swordplay but the romance. If you read SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT it's all from the slave girl's pers...more
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Jun 19, 2010
Greg Pettit
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Old school fantasy fans
Shelves:
fantasy
I first read a Conan book not too many years ago. I was surprised and delighted by the simple action and fantastic fun. It is not great literature by any means, but it is great pulp fiction, and very entertaining.
I would like to read all of the original Robert E. Howard Conan stories, but I haven't found a collection I liked enough to buy yet. So, in the meantime, I pick up these old "Ace" collections when I find them. The trouble is, of the five stories collected here, only three are solely by...more
I would like to read all of the original Robert E. Howard Conan stories, but I haven't found a collection I liked enough to buy yet. So, in the meantime, I pick up these old "Ace" collections when I find them. The trouble is, of the five stories collected here, only three are solely by...more
Another of the old DeCamp/Carter-edited Conan paperbacks. This one contains five short stories in all, including three excellent Howard-penned Conan stories. Two of them, "Black Colossus" and "A Witch Shall Be Born," are quite famous, but it's the less well known "Shadows in the Moonlight" that is easily my favorite. The other two are independent Howard works rewritten by DeCamp as Conan stories - both are okay but not great. I'm knocking off one star for DeCamp's editing, and a second for the i...more
A friend has been recommending I read some of the Conan books. This was my first venture into the world of Conan, and here's what I think.
Conan is like Nancy Drew for heavy metal fans. No character development, no new or unusual characters anywhere, and even the supernatural beasts and demons aren't written about in a way that makes them seem strange or amazing.
You can often sense Howard's passion for writing, but the stories are unexceptional, and would make average plot lines for comic books....more
Conan is like Nancy Drew for heavy metal fans. No character development, no new or unusual characters anywhere, and even the supernatural beasts and demons aren't written about in a way that makes them seem strange or amazing.
You can often sense Howard's passion for writing, but the stories are unexceptional, and would make average plot lines for comic books....more
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I've been getting into fantasy books again for the first time in about 20 years, and am surprised at how good some of them are.
The Fritz Leiber stuff is wonderful, just tongue and cheek enough, but not a spoof.
But I'm also enjoying this Conan book. It takes itself a bit more seriously, but just a bit, and the stories are wonderfully simple but set in a complex setting. Conan wanders into the middle of a huge political/religious morass in some city (detailed just enough by Howard)...but just kill...more
The Fritz Leiber stuff is wonderful, just tongue and cheek enough, but not a spoof.
But I'm also enjoying this Conan book. It takes itself a bit more seriously, but just a bit, and the stories are wonderfully simple but set in a complex setting. Conan wanders into the middle of a huge political/religious morass in some city (detailed just enough by Howard)...but just kill...more
The books I'd take to a desert island.
The books I'd save from a house on fire.
The books I read over and over.
The best of the best.
The books I'd save from a house on fire.
The books I read over and over.
The best of the best.
Does have some of the better Howard Conan stories, mixed with rewrites by De Camp of non-Conan stories into Conan ones.
Mmm I love this cover. Boris and he loves hott women with great Glutes as the slavegirl in this novel.
Of the 3 books I've read, I like the stories in this one best, especially the first couple.
The story has everything, wizards, swashbuckling sword fights, voluptuous heroines..
the Conan books were the first and the best big barbarian type books
It's been decades but I enjoyed these books!
This is the first of the Lancer Conans. Some of you will hate them because they are not only the NOT pure Howard they are also stories made from notes and pastiches by other authors. I enjoyed them, maybe not so much as the pure Howard stories, but they are good.
Sorry got it wrong, this isn't the first book in the series..it's the third....the cover tripped me up and I forgot to read the words (Book 3)sorry.
Sorry got it wrong, this isn't the first book in the series..it's the third....the cover tripped me up and I forgot to read the words (Book 3)sorry.
The master of Sword and Sorcery. Great stories that scare and delight; a hero, who's strength and cunning go unrivaled, and a good dollop of other-world building that make all Conan's novels great reads.
See my review for the book "Conan." That review is meant for all of the Conan the Cimmerian series of books.
Hard to beat the original Conan. The character never dies... Conan is forever.
See Conan book 1 for my thoughts on this series.
Jun 09, 2013
Cedric Nye
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
sword-and-sorcery,
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Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."
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