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Original Title:	Conan the Adventurer
ISBN:	0441118585 (ISBN13: 9780441118588)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Conan the Barbarian
Characters:	Conan the Barbarian
Setting:	Hyboria

Conan the Adventurer (Conan the Barbarian)

Robert E. Howard

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 2574 Users | 46 Reviews

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4.0 stars. An excellent collection of Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. This is classic pulp sword and sorcery at its best and done by the master himself. Of the four stories in this collection, my favorites were "The Slithering Shadow" (aka Xuthal of the Dusk) and "The Pool of the Black One", both of which have a very Lovecraftian feel to me (especially Slithering Shadow which features an Elder God right out of the Cthulhu mythos). The descriptions are vivid and exotic and the plots are dense with action and fast-paced. The very definition of a classic fun read.

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Title	:	Conan the Adventurer (Conan the Barbarian)
Author	:	Robert E. Howard
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	November 15th 1986 by Ace (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Heroic Fantasy. Sword and Sorcery. Adventure. Pulp. Short Stories. Science Fiction Fantasy

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I really enjoyed these stories, because they were as pulp as I had expected and hoped. Strangely, the one dimensional, simple characters felt refreshing. I'm sure I'll read more of Robert E Howard's Conan stories in the future.

I think this is my favorite cover of the series... not that any of them are bad.. but this one is just awesome. Happily, the stories inside do it justice.. only one non-Howard one (and it's from an outline), and at that Drums of Tombalku is easily my favorite on de Camp's work. Sakaumbe is a great contrast to Conan, and Almaric makes a great sidekick. I would have like to have seen a bit more of the 'brother kings' thing explored, but, as is every situation when Conan gets to the top of a heap,

This is one of the better collections. Only the third story is a reconstruction from one of Howard's outlines, the rest are undiluted and glorious.That said, the back two stories are a bit cringey re: race, *especially* the reconstruction I mentioned. I'd say I don't know who looks at a Howard story and thinks "Ah, this needs more complex racial hierarchy nonsense!" but I do and that man's name is L. Sprague De Camp, apparently!The important thing is now I'm all caught up for the next episode of

You just can't go wrong with Conan! Each story is creative and different enough that I've read more than twenty of the original Robert E. Howard stories in a row at one point and never tired of them. It reminds me of the Jon Carter series, except with a different backdrop and protagonist. This book is a great collection, and I wish I had the other books in this series.



To start with: I know these are not the Conan stories in the way Howard wrote them, being edited for publication in this editon by L. Sprague de Camp. Also one of the four stories is written by De Camp from an outline by Howard. Even so, these were the pocketbooks I found at a second hand book sale, and as I knew I had to try out these classics of the 'sword and sorcery'-genre one day, I bought a couple. Of course I was familiar with Conan the Barbarian from the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies (and

Not bad, traditional swashbuckling s&s.Of the four stories, I'd probably rate the slithering shadow highest, followed by the people of the black circle (by far the longest), the pool of the black one and then the drums of tombalku. The last of which didn't really feel like it went anywhere. But the others were fairly solid. Short but solid.