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    <body><![CDATA[The Conquering Sword of Conan is the third and final volume in Wandering Star's Robert E. Howard collection of Conan stories.  I'll be reviewing them as I read them.  That's the plan, anyway.<br/><br/><strong>The Servants of Bit-Yatkin:</strong>  The Servants of Bit-Yatkin is a story about Conan scouring a ruined ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73606363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the final in a series of three collections from Del Ray (the other two being Coming of Conan the Cimmerian and Bloody Crown of Conan) that collect the entire corpus of Robert E. Howard’s writings about his now well-known, if often misunderstood, barbarian hero. This volume contains th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27876463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of Robert E. Howard's Conan series and almost all of his other writings. Just pure fun and good fantasy. Nothing heavy but well written. The most astonishing thing about Howard's vision of Conan is when you realize where he lived (in the middle of no-where Texas on the west plains) a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46298348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although the editor makes much of Howard's growth as a writer by this stage of his career, shortly before his suicide at age 30, only two stories in this collection are worth anything (&quot;Beyond the Black River&quot; and &quot;Red Nails&quot;).  The other stories are rehashes or mediocre attempts...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64350955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I highly recommend the new Del Rey editions of the Conan stories which are printed just as Howard wrote them. &quot;The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian&quot;, &quot;The Conquering Sword of Conan&quot;, and &quot;The Bloody Crown of Conan&quot;. <br/>Before reading Conan I loved adventure stories and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46294084">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read the old 1-12 series of Conan paperbacks religiously when I was teenager and going back to re-read the stories from time to time I was VERY happy when these were put back into print in nice and inexpensive volumes that were unedited pure Robert E. Howard written versions of the stories. C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39872766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was in the 8th grade. I really liked it. Then the movie came out and I thought the movie was just awesome with the Govenator in it. Now, the movie looks pretty bad, and I have no idea what the book reads like now that I'm 40. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had no idea going into this book that the original Conan stories were so incredibly rife with racism and misogyny, to the point where even though the plots are interesting and the setting excellent, I can't overcome my disgust every time (and it is EVERY TIME) that Conan has to save a near-naked w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34151551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know, I have the hard back but it wasn't listed... ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sword and sorcery by the original master.  Conan is to Lord of the Rings as Blade Runner is to Star Wars.  Dark, brutal, but still undeniably fun!  It's amazing to think these stories were written in the 30's!  They literally created the tradition, and even Tolkien commented that he liked them and w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6238588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the Conan stories.  This book makes up the last of the &quot;complete&quot; series--when it's gone, it's gone.  Therefore I'm taking my sweet, sweet time finishing this baby.<br/><br/>&quot;Beyond the Black River&quot; is perhaps the best one yet!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More good stuff from REH. Includes the story 'Red Nails' Which is about as good as it gets. REH was definitely starting to chafe under the strictures of Heroic Fantasy and it shows, but 'Red Nails&quot; is fine.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I unashamedly love this stuff as trite as it can appear to be. The only problem with Howard's work is that he was aproduct of his day and a bit of a racist. Sword and sorcery at its best!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection contains longer Conan works, including &quot;By the Black River&quot;, in which Howard laid out many of his theories and thoughts about the decadence of the civilized world.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you love any modern day fantasy, Tolkein, George R.R. Martin you owe it to yourself to read these 3 books! Robert E. Howard's stories are gripping and relentlessness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bought it.  Have to read the first two first.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant fantasy from a master. Read it. ]]></body>
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