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I had heard that Robert Jordan wrote Conan pastiches. I had read his *Wheel of Time* series and liked them somewhat. Jordan is a skilled writer. Still, my expectations were managed: the REH purists I know have made me automatically leary of Conan pastiches. So, I was expecting a slog. Instead I discovered a somewhat entertaining sword and sorcery novel. It's not high art nor is it super inspired. It's nowhere near the original Robert E. Howard tales in literary quality. But was Jordan even aimin
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This is another good, even fun, novel dealing with sword and sorcery. It seems to have been written after attending fandom conventions and watching all the cosplays— which must have decided how many characters to be inserted as various types of antagonists and sundry others. It ticked the boxes mentioning hot-blooded action with voluptuos females and others, as deemed fit, sprinkling banter and heavy dialogues liberally upon everything.
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Conan pastiche
Apr 06, 2013
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