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Post by ollonois72 on Feb 17, 2019 15:23:08 GMT -5
This year, exactly in December, marks the 30th aniversary of my first reading of REH. The Spanish editions of the James Allison cycle and the Bran Mak Morn stories absolutely blew my head!!! It wasn't like anything I have read before!!! Later came Conan and the rest of the guys. One of my ideas to celebrate it is reading all the Howard Works in English. I have read authors like Karl Edward Wagner or Joe R Lansdale without difficulties but what about REH? ii could be specially difficult for a non English reader? at least I have the advantage that I know the stories...
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Post by charleshelm on Feb 17, 2019 21:34:00 GMT -5
Just go for it. There will likely be some words you need to look up, but he has a direct style of writing that should not be too bad...easy for me to say of course.
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Post by keith on Feb 18, 2019 21:25:08 GMT -5
30 years, ollonois? Why, you're nowt but a nipper. I wish it was only 30 years since I first read them. I don't imagine they'll be too difficult. I found them to be very readable as a youngster, although they did teach me a lot of new words along the way. ......  I'm with Kail the Demonic Berserker. 'Twas when I was fourteen at the public library in Hobart, Tasmania, that I first discovered Conan the Cimmerian, in those revered volumes CONAN THE CONQUEROR, THE SWORD OF CONAN, and THE COMING OF CONAN. I was fourteen, oh, mumble argle-bargle wurff years ago now. Just thirty years?You pup of the sandhills, as Rold says to Carse in Brackett's SEA KINGS OF MARS! |
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Post by Sangria Sword on Apr 12, 2019 16:47:45 GMT -5
I first discovered Conan when I was fifteen years old. I was in a local dime store, they were called that back then, when I saw an issue of "Savage Tales" on the newsstand. The cover bedazzled my eyes and blew me away. I grabbed it up and eagerly scanned through it until I came to the story called " A Frost Giant's Daughter ". Inthralled by the artwork I quickly read it. To my eyes, the art was fantastic, the story riveting! I had grown up watching Tarzan movies and reading Edgar Rice Burroughs Novels. I had never heard of Conan. Who was this guy called Robert E. Howard? I didn't have the money to buy the magazine, but I read it at least five times before I left the store. I was hooked! I was a fantasy junky! I needed more! I came across an ad for the Lancer Conan paperback books and you guessed it, I ordered them all. I had read about half of them, when on the advice of my neighbor, who had been wounded in Nam, I, at seventeen, joined the Army. I felt an obligation and desire to serve my country and I think in a way, Conan inspired me in this decision. So, I joined the Military and served my Country. And I've been a fan of Conan and Robert E. Howard ever since.
I would like to thank all the fans of Robert E. Howard who have kept his works in the public eye. Without you guys, his works would have been lost forever. Thank you, and God bless.
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I'm with Kail the Demonic Berserker. 'Twas when I was fourteen at the public library in Hobart, Tasmania, that I first discovered Conan the Cimmerian, in those revered volumes CONAN THE CONQUEROR, THE SWORD OF CONAN, and THE COMING OF CONAN. I was fourteen, oh, mumble argle-bargle wurff years ago now. Just thirty years?You pup of the sandhills, as Rold says to Carse in Brackett's SEA KINGS OF MARS!