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Thongor Against the Gods (Thongor, #3)

Lin Carter

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Dec 03, 2008 Derek rated it did not like it

Shelves: sword-and-sorcery, atlantis-lemuria-mu

Lin Carter falls into a pattern as he gets lazy or disinterested: stories become a series of crises strung together by narrative melodrama and cliffhanger chapter endings, the problems resolved with unlikely turnarounds and no net plot advancement, and elements recycled from other stories. In this case, it also gets bogged down into 'jungle adventure', which I didn't enjoy when reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and certainly don't enjoy here.

The sad part is that the villains are never allowed to stew ...more

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Sep 20, 2020 Jacob Blanchet rated it liked it

This is the third Thongor adventure by Lin Carter, and I have to say so far it’s the only one I’ve really enjoyed. I read the first two back-to-back, waited a day or so, then VERY RELUCTANTLY tackled this one. I think it was the Frazetta cover that clinched it for me. I read it in less than a day (these books don’t require much brain function) and after two days of blistering headaches from rolling my eyes so hard at the first two books this was actually quite the treat!

I started the series most ...more

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Jul 18, 2008 Charles rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

Great title, but the book is about average for the Thongor series.

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Nov 11, 2023 J.W. Wright rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy-science-fiction, historical-adventure, owned

The mighty and fearsome barbarian, Thongor of Valkarth, has become Grand Sark/king of Patanga. He has defeated and ousted the vile Chaos-worshipping orders of the Red and Yellow Druids, whose dark altars to their demonic deities have dripped with the blood of countless innocents. Now Thongor’s enemies including what’s left of the wicked druids, and the dethroned sarks of Shembis and Tsargol gather to hatch a plot to kidnap Thongor’s wife, Princess Sumia, and his newborn child, and to eventually ...more

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