fantastic book but not what i was looking for
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i bought this book to make the wait for the game conan hyborian adventures a little less nail biteing. i bought this book hopeing it would tell me everything about conan and his age unfortunatly it dose not. it dose to go into conans child hood and his rise to power.i found this very anoying but never the less this is still a fantastic book and robert e howerd is a fantastic writer
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Great reading
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After reading the above reviews all i can say is that i agree totally with them all....sheer class....i will return to this one again and again.
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Excellent to be honest
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Like J Mayall I was interested in the book only to get some foresight before playing the forthcoming Age of Conan online game this October. For ages I've been sceptical that the book(s) would be any good, no better than pulp sword and sorcery. However, I was totally wrong, as Howard creates a living, breathing, fully believable other world which you can easily fall into and not stop reading. Tolkien nerds ( who me? ) should read Conan as they will love it too... P.S. The new Conan movie is out in 2008 :)
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Simpy amazing
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I brought this as I am looking forward to playing the online game Age Of Conan and wanted to know more of the back story.
The books is beautiful, its very thick and alot bigger than I thought it would be with fantastic illustrations here and there.
The stories are just breath taking, I have gone through many emotions whilst reading and I have never experienced this with any other book before.
REH manages to convey the surroundings fantasticly in just a few lines not pages and pages of description like many other authors require, feelings and emotion of the characters are portraid equally well.
And the most important part, how are the stories? Well they are simply magnificent Conan is brought accross fantastically, the battles are described better than anything I have read before and really do get you going in a way which you would whilst watching a good movie.
This book is just awe inspiring I have never read anything so fantastic and highly, highly reccomend it!
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Stunning
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This collection is fabulous.I've procurred a chronology list from Wi**pedia and I'm going through the stories in order('though we'll never know the true order,if there is one)but there is something to be said for just dipping into these tales every now and again.Howard brought fantasy to vivid life with Conan and I've not yet come across a writer who evokes such a strong sense of another living,breathing world.
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