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  <title><![CDATA[Conan: Conan the Freebooter (Book 3)]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1968</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1991</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 17 20:46:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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, &quot;Black Colossus&quot; and &quot;A Witch Shall Be Born,&quot; are quite famous, but it's the less well known &quot;Shadows in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71627532">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 27 21:24:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/><br/>Sorry got it wrong,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72729003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24556464">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 15 12:57:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 24 17:11:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>Conan is like Nancy Drew for heavy metal fans.  No character development, no new or unusual characters anywhere, and even the supernatural beasts and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24556464">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 28 05:32:53 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jan 28 05:32:37 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>The Fritz Leiber stuff is wonderful, just tongue and cheek enough, but not a spoof.<br/><br/>But I'm also enjoying this Conan book. It takes itself a bit more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9212470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41694164">
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 23:53:28 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Does have some of the better Howard Conan stories, mixed with rewrites by De Camp of non-Conan stories into Conan ones.]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="46819923">
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 18 19:27:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/66700.Robert_E_Howard" title="Robert E. Howard">Robert E. Howard</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65674817">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 31 11:53:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the 3 books I've read, I like the stories in this one best, especially the first couple.]]></body>
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    <review id="368338">
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 21 13:10:40 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 04 12:33:41 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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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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</review>
    <review id="18464774">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[See my review for the book &quot;Conan.&quot; That review is meant for all of the Conan the Cimmerian series of books.]]></body>
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    <review id="35755969">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ron]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to beat the original Conan.  The character never dies... Conan is forever.]]></body>
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    <review id="28163691">
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    <body><![CDATA[See Conan book 1 for my thoughts on this series.]]></body>
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