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    <body><![CDATA[Aaaaah...Conan!<br/><br/>I struggled with my star rating for <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8921.The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles" title="The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle">Conan</a> because, despite any mitigating factors, I really love the character of Conan, particularly in the hands of his progenitor, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/947.William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Robert E. Howard</a>.<br/><br/>Howard had a fiercely creative mind and a burning work ethic that enabled him ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19027409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeeeahhhhh, I know what you're thinking... Ahnold wrote a book?<br/><br/>I was up really late watching channel 88, or 87, or 78 and Ahnold was hacking'n'slashing a bunch of guys in rubber armor and I was thinking to myself, &quot;wonder where this story was lifted from, 'Lord of the Rings?'&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44934392">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're worried about being politically correct, respectful, non-steroetyping, etc., avoid Howard: he'll definitely trouble you, sooner or later. If you want meaningful discourse, the same. Howard was not interested in the later, as far as his fiction went, and unaware of the former.<br/><br/>Ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52569601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30519257">
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this series in high school. I had a welding class with a friend who owned most of the books. He'd lend them to me and we'd discuss them while working on our projects together. It was the first fantasy I liked after reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34.The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Part_1_" title="The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien">The Lord of the Rings</a> about 3 years before. Edited by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/66700.Robert_E_Howard" title="Robert E. Howard">L. Sprague De Camp</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30519257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29465637">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this was a fun read. Robert E. Howard is a fantastic writer with a seemingly unlimited imagination. Iâ€™ve read the comics and the Savage Sword of Conan magazines but they pale in comparison to these novels.<br/><br/>The great thing about this particular edition (ACE Fantasy, 1967) is that itâ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29465637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18464730">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, the writing in these books is not great. I lost track of how many times the same modifier was used within a couple sentences. Conan's muscles are never muscles, they are *always* thews. His speed is always panther-like. His eyes are possibly the only blue eyes that have ever existed that a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18464730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72730064">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the Lancer Conans. Some of you will hate them because they are not only NOT the pure Howard stories, but they also include 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. I don't have all of them ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72730064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55098741">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first fantasy book I ever actually finished (I was probably in 5th or 6th grade).  It is a collection of short stories that details the early life of Conan following his enslavement through his days as a young thief and then into his days as a mercenary.  This book changed my life and o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55098741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62627527">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Conan helps some Elephant-man God kill the sorcerer that has imprisoned/tortured him for centuries, He then defeats an army of the dead after out running a super slug through a ghost city. Next, Conan kills some kind of snake god from before the age of man and then is forced to kill the missing link...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62627527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25528670">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1981</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was in 8th grade and I really hated reading and just couldn't get the point or what the pleasure of it could be. My babysitter new I was upset about many personal things in my life and she bought me a copy of Conan. It was just the escapism that I needed and threw me off into Conan's world where I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25528670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63987523">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked the stories, but the prose really made it tough for me to &quot;devour&quot; the book. This is something I've struggled with reading other of Howard's books (e.g., Solomon Kane) as well as Lovecraft's stories. Hence, these aren't turning out to be books that I can plow through quickly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63987523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28163063">
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    <body><![CDATA[L. Sprague De Camp's sections are a little too tacky-wordy for my tastes-- I could do without the phrase &quot;interstellar cold&quot; in my low fantasy.  But the Robert E. Howard stories have a good pace.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some relatively pure Howard Conan stories mixed with pastiches.  2 and a half stars.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I met Conan in the mid 1960's. The series was being republished and I had never heard of Robert Howard or this dark, brooding giant.<br/><br/>By the way, I was in college when I began reading the Conan stories. If you remember your history, college in the mid '60's was all about hippies , marches ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20057138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Robert Howard is a magnificent story teller.  As a man who makes his living riding a computer terminal, and eats meat that's been butchered on a farm somewhere, at some viceral level I long for an earlier more viceral existence.  No one provides this fantasy better than Howard.  Conan is everthing I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8448181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have all the Conan books.  I started reading them in High School and they still hold great memories for me.  When I first read them, I could not imagine how the books could be made into movies!  No special effects like they have now!  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked these stories and conan. He was strong and powerful while I was weak and cowardly. Now I am stronger than Conan and I make him use his sword to cut my raviolis open so the chesse will mix with the sauce.   ]]></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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