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I read all of Howard's Conan back when I was in high school and loved them. Decided that since it's getting close to 50 years since then, I might want to reread it since the movie (with Momoa, which is closer to the Conan I'd conjured in my mind from the books, better sense of humor then the Schwartzenegger one) had come out. There are a few arguments as to how you ought to read these stories--chronologically by Conan's life line, chronologically according to how Howard wrote the stories, some other means. I also did't bother with the Conan knock offs by other authors, went for just the pure Howard stories. This book gives you the background on Conan, his earlier adventures.

As far as Howard's Conan is concerned I'm a purist like most fans. My opinions on L. Sprague de Camp, Frank Frazetta and what the best Conan stories are differ with those of (most) other purists. One point I do agree on enthusiastically: Del Rey releasing, unchanged, every Howard Conan story, fragment, poem as well as Howard's show bible 'The Hyborian Age' in three companion volumes [THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN, THE BLOODY CROWN OF CONAN and THE CONQUERING SWORD OF CONAN] is the best thing to happen to Conan since Frazetta. THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN celebrates a young American writer never fully recognized for his enormous talent while alive.Fact: no one wrote the Cimmerian better than his creator Robert E. Howard. Later on a few writers took some fairly informed stabs at continuing his material, most failed. Robert Jordan was the best imitator I read but that's a slight statement comparing him to Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg's fan-fic efforts.L. Sprague de Camp was embarrassingly bad trying to write the character too although I don't damn the guy like most purists. He may have churned out crappy Conan fare, but he actually edited Howard's prose quite well, i.e. Treasure of Tranicos gives the largely absent Conan more onstage time, is funnier and more fleshed out than The Black Stranger (not in the book on review). Most important, de Camp went to great lengths to keep Conan in the public eye by getting Howard's tales reprinted in Gnome Press in the fifties and then in Lancer Books in the sixties. If it wasn't for de Camp none of us may ever have heard of Bob Howard. I don't care if de Camp changed story titles, he always told readers the original names anyway; don't care if he padded the saga for meretricious reasons; and could care less if de Camp (and Glen Lord and Lancer) got rich off Howard's writing. With Howard long deceased somebody was going to. Readers can't deny the benefits they've reaped from being introduced to Conan.Frazetta had more to do with Conan's success in the sixties than de Camp. You had to be there to grasp that. I'd seen Frazetta for years on Ace Book covers and in MAD Magazine and thought highly of his art. But nothing prepared me for Frazetta's savage vision of the Cimmerian, it was the best art of Frank's career. Back then I'd buy books with Frazetta covers just for the art and seldom read the book, but when I opened the pages of Conan the Adventurer I realized that just for once the art matched the story. Frazetta is definitely the iconic Conan illustrator but others have done well by the barbarian: Buscema, Alcala, Maroto and I welcome Mark Schultz to those distinguished ranks. I enjoyed his take on Conan in this book a lot, although he's more clean cut than the Conan in my imagination. The other volumes in this set also have excellent artwork.I disagree with many about the best stories in THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN. Rogues in the House (Howard paying homage to Poe?) and The Tower of the Elephant (a Cthulhu mythos tale with Conan?) are classics, of course, like The Phoenix on the Sword and The Scarlet Citadel. Black Colossus and Queen of the Black Coast are considered classic Conan too by most, but I never have liked them. I've read them a couple times apiece and they just don't put that stupid grin on my face I get with "formula" pieces like Iron Shadows in the Moon, Xuthal of the Dusk, The Pool of the Black One and The Devil in Iron (stories I've reread countless times). If I'm odd man out on that score, so be it. Howard evidently enjoyed presenting Conan through another character's eyes instead of telling all the stories from Conan's POV, i.e. Iron Shadows in the Moon is interestingly written in strict third person limited, entirely related from the viewpoint of Olivia, not once is the reader inside Conan's head. A Witch Shall Be Born (not in this volume) is a variation of this motif.I'm grateful Del Rey got the unadulterated Howard-and-only-Howard Conan into readers' hands in these fine collections. Too bad the fiscally challenged Weird Tales didn't pay Howard the two large they owed him in 1935 or readers might have a couple more Conan novellas the caliber of Red Nails (also not in this volume). And too bad Robert E. Howard got the literary reputation he truly deserved thirty years too late. I'm certainly not as passionate a Conan fan now as I was as a 14-year-old boy staring agog at the cover of Conan the Usurper for the first time in 1967, but reading Howard somehow reminds me of being that kid. And the older I get, the more important that seems to become.

A fantastic collection of the Conan stories AS THEY WERE ORIGINALLY WRITTEN by Robert E. Howard. Frankly, I found the illustrations a bit lackluster, but honestly, NO ONE could really live up to the jaw-dropping artwork by Frank Frazetta that helped bring back these stories to the public's attention in the Lancer/Ace paperback editions (1966-1977)... as a youth I poured over those books, grabbing any I could find at used book stores, and Frazetta's paintings influenced my own developing artistic talents. I did book reports on Conan books, drawings of barbarians & monsters for school art classes, even sat on the front row at the opening night of "Conan the Barbarian" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Just this morning I was playing the online pc game "Age of Conan: Unchained"... Yes, you could say Robert E. Howard's writings made quite an impression on this young kid from Oklahoma(now a 50 year old grandpa), fueling dreams not of cowboys & Indians, but of swords & sorcery!

“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.”The first volume of Del Rey’s three-volume collection of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories is my introduction to Howard and almost my introduction to Conan. The Del Rey editions collect the stories in the order that Howard wrote them rather than by publication date or plot chronology. The first book includes a foreword by Mark Schultz and an introduction by Patrice Louinet. Both are excellent, neither denigrating the source material. Louinet is the editor, and Schultz contributed extensive illustrations (I understand these are missing from the Kindle version). He is no Frazetta—no one is—but I like Schutlz’s artwork a lot, and I find it supplanting Frazetta and the Ah-nold movies in how I picture Conan and his world. They do tend to be a little spoilery. The first volume also includes drafts, synopsizes, and, most notably, Robert E. Howard’s fictional history of the Hyborian Age.The stories in this volume are shorter than the stories in the other two volumes. I’m not going to review each. They are excellent, but Conan benefits from the longer stories in the other two volumes, and the stories in the second half of this volume are some of Howard’s weakest Conan stories.The dichotomy Howard draws between barbarianism and civilization is oft remarked on by commentators, not the least because Howard himself quite plainly lays it out. But there is more to it than a cursory, simplistic interpretation might imply. My impression of Conan was sealed by two of the first four stories—The God in the Bowl and The Tower of the Elephant.In each, Conan is a young thief. He doesn’t wear his role as a barbarian in civilized lands as comfortably as he does as an older man. This is a Conan who reacts to his discomfort with civilized society with anger and violence. In The God in the Bowl, Conan is loath to admit he came to the Temple to steal, but he reacts viciously when the watch thinks to seize him.“‘Back, if you value your dog lives!’ he snarled, his blue eyes blazing. ‘Because you dare to torture shop-keepers and strip and beat harlots to make them talk, don’t think you can lay your fat paws on a Hillman! I’ll take some of you to h___ with me! Fumble with your bow, watchman – I’ll burst your guts with my heel before this night’s work is over!’”In The Tower of the Elephant, Conan naively asks about the tower, brazenly declares he could burglarize it, and then kills the man for laughing at him.It is not the loincloth that makes the barbarian.

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