The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1) in Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"

Jun 09, 2015 Triston Sowles rated it it was amazing

Barbarians in fantasy are pretty one-note. They wear fur pelts, and rage. That's about it. But the progenitor to modern fictional barbarians was much more complicated. Conan was less raging steroid junkee and more like a general "mans'-man". He can fight, drink, climb and generally be "the damnedest bastard there ever was!" (Seriously go watch The Whole Wide World, it's pretty good.)

There's a lot more variety here than one might think. We see Conan as a thief, a pirate, a gladiator, a soldier an ...more

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May 17, 2018 Clint rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sword-sorcery, pulp-studies, reh-and-reh-pastiche, studies-in-fantasy, fantasy-worth-reading, 2018, audio-books

My updates pretty much cover my thoughts on these stories. The Conan stories are my favorite Sword & Sorcery playground. The quality of the stories in volume one is varied, but includes two of my favorites: “The Tower of the Elephant” and “The Queen of the Black Coast”.

The narrator, Todd McLaren, does a fine job. For me his voice he makes for Conan conjures an image of the Barbarian as drawn by John Buscema.

This was not my first experience with these stories by far, but it was my first audio ex ...more

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Nov 04, 2017 Severius rated it it was amazing

Great collection of stories. I loved every moment spent reading these. The notes and essays at the end of the book were great as well. It's so good to be able to read the unaltered versions of these stories. ...more

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