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Post by ramos on Dec 8, 2019 7:17:36 GMT -5
I just got Conan the Magnificent as a present from my friend to read on my flight to China. I heard that Robert Jordan is good but I have never read anything Conan that is not Robert E Howard because it seemed blasphemy to me lol. What do you guys think about this book and Robert Jordan Conan books in general?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 1:13:44 GMT -5
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Post by alexander on Dec 14, 2019 7:13:17 GMT -5
It's been some tome since I've read the Robert Jordan pastiches (all of them). They can't be compared with REH's Conans of course but as far as pastiches go they're good quality. I did not find them especially memorable but as good as, if not better than, many Conan clones of the 1970s.
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Post by ramos on Dec 20, 2019 17:18:33 GMT -5
Thanks, guys! Yes, Hun, I got the same book from the picture. I will read it. As my friend said when you watch James Bond movies it would not be interesting if Sean Conery was playing in every movie. I will read Robert Jordan with that philosophy I guess
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 2, 2021 0:09:26 GMT -5
I liked this novel quite well...not a huge Jordan fan but this one was a cut above IMO
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Jan 4, 2021 13:15:46 GMT -5
I don't rate Jordan's Conan pastiches highly. I found them to be a bit of a struggle at times. Other authors wrote Conan much more vividly.
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Post by terryallenuk on Jan 4, 2021 13:30:47 GMT -5
I agree , they got a bit monotonous
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Post by headlessvulture on Jan 5, 2021 19:29:44 GMT -5
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Post by headlessvulture on Jan 5, 2021 19:32:36 GMT -5
I'm trying to remember if that's the one where Conan travels back to Cimmeria. If it is, I quite enjoyed it. I liked Jordan as a pastiche writer better than Leonard Carpenter and Sean A. Moore, but probably not as much as John Maddox Roberts.
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Post by alexander on Jan 8, 2021 12:23:57 GMT -5
I'm trying to remember if that's the one where Conan travels back to Cimmeria. If it is, I quite enjoyed it. I liked Jordan as a pastiche writer better than Leonard Carpenter and Sean A. Moore, but probably not as much as John Maddox Roberts. nope. That's the one that takes place in the Kezankian Mountains (the 1st Jordan I've ever read, back in 1992). |
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Post by headlessvulture on Jan 8, 2021 14:50:01 GMT -5
I'm trying to remember if that's the one where Conan travels back to Cimmeria. If it is, I quite enjoyed it. I liked Jordan as a pastiche writer better than Leonard Carpenter and Sean A. Moore, but probably not as much as John Maddox Roberts. nope. That's the one that takes place in the Kezankian Mountains (the 1st Jordan I've ever read, back in 1992). Right! I remember that one now, sort of. It's been a couple of decades since I read it. |
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Post by alexander on Jan 21, 2023 7:45:51 GMT -5
I've just re-read it and I found it quite good (way better than Steve Perry's or Leonard Carpenter's).
There is just one thing I can't figure out.
*** SPOILER ***
A Brythunian got a magic sword, the only weapon able to kill the "dragon" (a creature created by old Acheron). If he let go of the sword it'll vanish and come back to the cave where it had laid for centuries. This is mentioned 3 times in the book, but then during the fight against the dragon he gives the sword to Conan - who of course kills the monster with it (with surprising ease I might add making this rather anti-climactic). Whatever the sword did not vanish at all when the Brythunian stopped wearing it.
The ending seems rather rushed.
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