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Adventures of Conan
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After a gambling dispute erupts into violence and death, Conan of Cimmeria is condemned to the hellish mine pits of Brythunia where no man has ever escaped--or survived. But Conan breaks free and disappears into the wilderness, far from civilization, and into the eager arms of Songa, a forest maiden. Still the demon-goddess Ninga has seized control of Brythunia and her insatiable appetite for human sacrifice threatens to devour the world. Only one man can strike at the very heart of Ninga's religion of blood. A man who carries death in his eyes.
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First published November 1, 1992
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Leonard Carpenter
50 books18 followersLeonard Paul Carpenter (born 1948) is an American technical writer and author of fantasy, historical and futurist fiction. He began by selling horror/fantasy tales and Conan the Barbarian sequels, eleven novels totaling a million words. This is more of the Conan saga than any other author living or dead, including Conan's inspired creator Robert E. Howard in the 1930's. Now Carpenter breaks out of sci-fantasy with his mainstream historical opus Lusitania Lost, a wartime epic of the sinking of the luxury liner in 1915 by a German U-boat, which ultimately caused the US to enter WWI. This is the first novelization of an event more dramatic and significant than the Titanic tragedy 3 years earlier. Carpenter has also written the screenplay adaptation of this book. Another novel of his, the future-history thriller Biohacker, is available on Amazon Kindle. Carpenter is the widowed survivor of a 50-year courtship and marriage, proud father of 3, and owner of a superstar Frisbee dog, Lizzie. He spends his time traveling and writing about a Cuban fantasy quest and real-life engagement in his just-published novel, Tropic of Cuba, now serialized on Kindle Vella at Amazon (first chapters free!)
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July 5, 2022
This is another odd and quirky Carpenter Conan. Conan escapes from the prison mines to sit naked in the forest for a couple of hundred pages and decide that civilization sucks. The story is about a young girl and her magic doll that take over the country... It's really a pretty good fantasy/adventure story, but not so much a Conan story. Ken Kelly continues his tree theme on the cover, but this time Conan's holding a big rock on a stick and looks like Gallagher wearing an Elvira wig as a disguise to sneak up on the watermelon.
August 28, 2023
Yet again, an abysmal pastiche by the worst author to write Conan. As usual, Carpenter blatantly had no interest in delivering an even halfway serviceable Conan story, and is once again just writing Conan to pay the bills.
Here, he splits the novel into two halves, flitting back and forth between both "plots" with every chapter. Both halves have absolutely nothing to do with each other in any way, shape, or form until the last 10% of the book - and both halves were equally painful to read.
50% of the book is, of course, Conan... yet it's possibly the most pathetic showing of Conan out of the 26 Tor novels I've read so far, beaten in its ineptitude only by Carpenter's also-horrendous Conan the Great. With a fairly generic opening that sees Conan get taken captive (MUCH more easily than Howard's Conan would be), our favourite Cimmerian soon flees the mines he is condemned to. After Conan's escape, Carpenter wastes the entire Conan half of the novel with utter drivel. Dozens upon dozens of pages of Conan doing absolutely nothing of interest, whether it's fishing, making hunting equipment, finding places to sleep, making fires, occasionally fighting a bear or a forest cat... honestly, it's just awful. There's no "plot" to speak of. No goal or objective for Conan to pursue. No momentum or sense of adventure. No story for the reader to get invested in. It's just meandering, uneventful filler. Carpenter doesn't even try to hide the fact that he's just page-wasting here, and with the entire Conan half of this story, he makes it as clear as possible that he has no interest in making it even slightly enjoyable or memorable.
Oh, and to make matters worse, Carpenter's Conan constantly seems to struggle doing things Howard's Conan wouldn't. There are multiple moments in this book where Conan is either easily overcome by his adversaries or barely holds his own in situations Howard's Conan would thrive in. It's like Carpenter is determined to undermine the character, and this is becoming more and more apparent in every one of his pastiches that I read, being noticeable to anyone remotely familiar with Howard's Conan. This is an author who has no respect for a character far more timeless and beloved than anything he has ever created himself.
Anyway... the other 50% of the book is the novel Carpenter really wanted to write - but of course, he crams it into a Conan pastiche to get it published, because he could never have gotten his own story published without coasting on the name of a far greater character by a far greater author. This second half of the book follows an extremely forgettable story about a young girl conquering Brythunia with her magical doll. In the typical Carpenter fashion, a large chunk of the story consists of political "intrigue" that's not actually intriguing in the slightest. Instead, he does his usual - wastes countless pages with overly-flowerly, excruciatingly drawn-out prose, as though he thinks doing so will distract the reader from the fact that nothing worth reading is actually happening. Honestly, there are times in this book where I'm sure Carpenter spends two entire pages just to agonisingly describe someone walking from one room to the next... and that's when he isn't wasting time by having characters ramble on and on for page after page without actually saying anything of interest or import, with huge chunks of dialogue taking up what could easily be said in a single sentence.
This shows the clear difference between Robert E. Howard and Carpenter in regards to prose. When Howard uses flowery prose, he does so with passion and fire, vividly painting scenes that come to life in the reader's mind and evoke a real sense of adventure and peril. When Carpenter does it, passion and fire are completely absent. It's just overly-wordy rambling by an author clearly desperate to pad out his novels for no reason other than to reach a required word count.
Anyway, the two stories - the Conan half and the magic doll half - finally clash in the literal final chapter, and it's as underwhelming as the majority of Carpenter's finales.
Now I suppose it's time to try and summarise my overall feelings about this painful excuse of a Conan pastiche... but first I would like to say that, despite what anyone might think reading this review, I really don't have high expectations for these pastiches and I'm not at all a Howard purist. Of course nobody can write Conan like Howard, any more than anyone can write Middle-Earth like Tolkien, nor should they be expected to. But at the end of the day, most other Conan pastiche authors at least manage to deliver serviceable sword and sorcery stories that are generally faithful to Howard's character and world. Hell, even the other weaker Conan pastiche authors like Roland Green get some credit from me, because at least they were trying to write fun Conan tales despite their shortcomings.
But Carpenter... well, he doesn't even try. Instead, he just defecates all over the Hyborian map. Clearly, after his first couple of pastiches, Carpenter started to see himself as "above" Conan... but, since he was unable to actually write anything worthwhile himself, he knuckled down and continued to reluctantly churn out his own lacklustre stories in the guise of Conan tales to get them published and sold. In doing so, he takes his frustrations out on the character repeatedly, neglecting Conan for much of the novel and writing him poorly when he has to write him at all, openly showcasing his displeasure that this is how he has to make a living.
As a result, like most Carpenter outings, Conan the Savage is false advertising. It's a bait-and-switch. It's a false promise of a Conan novel. It's a trick to lure in fans of Howard's Conan. The title and artwork may promise a Conan story... but by the time you've paid for the book and start reading it, you'll quickly realise you've been duped by an author who has no interest in actually delivering what you thought you were buying. The way Carpenter undermines Robert E. Howard, Conan, and the reader like this gets under my skin and boils my blood in a way no author has ever done before.
What makes all this so laughable is the fact that Howard's Conan is an absolute titan of fantasy/sword and sorcery literature a whole century after his creation. Meanwhile, Carpenter's sole legacy is that of being the most-commonly agreed worst Conan author by the few readers who have suffered through his "contributions", and it's entirely Carpenter's own doing. The truly ironic thing about this is that, believe it or not, Carpenter's first two pastiches were surprisingly good! When he was actually trying to write good Conan stories to begin with, he did a very solid job. If he had continued to respect the character and give the fans what they wanted throughout his career as a Conan pastiche author, he might have a far better reputation than he has today.
Anyway, I'm going to end my rant here. The only reason I'm reading Carpenter's Conan pastiches at this point is because I'm a completionist, and I'm far too deep in Tor's run of Conan books to give up now. That being said, this is one of the worst books I've ever read, and one of only three books I've ever given a one star rating - two of which are Carpenter's Conan pastiches.
Crom give me strength.
Edit: I'd also like to point out the hilarity of Carpenter boasting about how he's written more Conan than any other author, including Robert E. Howard himself, as though the quantity of his Conan output correlates with its quality in any way. It doesn't. Howard could do more in a single page than Carpenter has done in the last five full novels I've read of his. I don't expect that to change with the next four either.
Here, he splits the novel into two halves, flitting back and forth between both "plots" with every chapter. Both halves have absolutely nothing to do with each other in any way, shape, or form until the last 10% of the book - and both halves were equally painful to read.
50% of the book is, of course, Conan... yet it's possibly the most pathetic showing of Conan out of the 26 Tor novels I've read so far, beaten in its ineptitude only by Carpenter's also-horrendous Conan the Great. With a fairly generic opening that sees Conan get taken captive (MUCH more easily than Howard's Conan would be), our favourite Cimmerian soon flees the mines he is condemned to. After Conan's escape, Carpenter wastes the entire Conan half of the novel with utter drivel. Dozens upon dozens of pages of Conan doing absolutely nothing of interest, whether it's fishing, making hunting equipment, finding places to sleep, making fires, occasionally fighting a bear or a forest cat... honestly, it's just awful. There's no "plot" to speak of. No goal or objective for Conan to pursue. No momentum or sense of adventure. No story for the reader to get invested in. It's just meandering, uneventful filler. Carpenter doesn't even try to hide the fact that he's just page-wasting here, and with the entire Conan half of this story, he makes it as clear as possible that he has no interest in making it even slightly enjoyable or memorable.
Oh, and to make matters worse, Carpenter's Conan constantly seems to struggle doing things Howard's Conan wouldn't. There are multiple moments in this book where Conan is either easily overcome by his adversaries or barely holds his own in situations Howard's Conan would thrive in. It's like Carpenter is determined to undermine the character, and this is becoming more and more apparent in every one of his pastiches that I read, being noticeable to anyone remotely familiar with Howard's Conan. This is an author who has no respect for a character far more timeless and beloved than anything he has ever created himself.
Anyway... the other 50% of the book is the novel Carpenter really wanted to write - but of course, he crams it into a Conan pastiche to get it published, because he could never have gotten his own story published without coasting on the name of a far greater character by a far greater author. This second half of the book follows an extremely forgettable story about a young girl conquering Brythunia with her magical doll. In the typical Carpenter fashion, a large chunk of the story consists of political "intrigue" that's not actually intriguing in the slightest. Instead, he does his usual - wastes countless pages with overly-flowerly, excruciatingly drawn-out prose, as though he thinks doing so will distract the reader from the fact that nothing worth reading is actually happening. Honestly, there are times in this book where I'm sure Carpenter spends two entire pages just to agonisingly describe someone walking from one room to the next... and that's when he isn't wasting time by having characters ramble on and on for page after page without actually saying anything of interest or import, with huge chunks of dialogue taking up what could easily be said in a single sentence.
This shows the clear difference between Robert E. Howard and Carpenter in regards to prose. When Howard uses flowery prose, he does so with passion and fire, vividly painting scenes that come to life in the reader's mind and evoke a real sense of adventure and peril. When Carpenter does it, passion and fire are completely absent. It's just overly-wordy rambling by an author clearly desperate to pad out his novels for no reason other than to reach a required word count.
Anyway, the two stories - the Conan half and the magic doll half - finally clash in the literal final chapter, and it's as underwhelming as the majority of Carpenter's finales.
Now I suppose it's time to try and summarise my overall feelings about this painful excuse of a Conan pastiche... but first I would like to say that, despite what anyone might think reading this review, I really don't have high expectations for these pastiches and I'm not at all a Howard purist. Of course nobody can write Conan like Howard, any more than anyone can write Middle-Earth like Tolkien, nor should they be expected to. But at the end of the day, most other Conan pastiche authors at least manage to deliver serviceable sword and sorcery stories that are generally faithful to Howard's character and world. Hell, even the other weaker Conan pastiche authors like Roland Green get some credit from me, because at least they were trying to write fun Conan tales despite their shortcomings.
But Carpenter... well, he doesn't even try. Instead, he just defecates all over the Hyborian map. Clearly, after his first couple of pastiches, Carpenter started to see himself as "above" Conan... but, since he was unable to actually write anything worthwhile himself, he knuckled down and continued to reluctantly churn out his own lacklustre stories in the guise of Conan tales to get them published and sold. In doing so, he takes his frustrations out on the character repeatedly, neglecting Conan for much of the novel and writing him poorly when he has to write him at all, openly showcasing his displeasure that this is how he has to make a living.
As a result, like most Carpenter outings, Conan the Savage is false advertising. It's a bait-and-switch. It's a false promise of a Conan novel. It's a trick to lure in fans of Howard's Conan. The title and artwork may promise a Conan story... but by the time you've paid for the book and start reading it, you'll quickly realise you've been duped by an author who has no interest in actually delivering what you thought you were buying. The way Carpenter undermines Robert E. Howard, Conan, and the reader like this gets under my skin and boils my blood in a way no author has ever done before.
What makes all this so laughable is the fact that Howard's Conan is an absolute titan of fantasy/sword and sorcery literature a whole century after his creation. Meanwhile, Carpenter's sole legacy is that of being the most-commonly agreed worst Conan author by the few readers who have suffered through his "contributions", and it's entirely Carpenter's own doing. The truly ironic thing about this is that, believe it or not, Carpenter's first two pastiches were surprisingly good! When he was actually trying to write good Conan stories to begin with, he did a very solid job. If he had continued to respect the character and give the fans what they wanted throughout his career as a Conan pastiche author, he might have a far better reputation than he has today.
Anyway, I'm going to end my rant here. The only reason I'm reading Carpenter's Conan pastiches at this point is because I'm a completionist, and I'm far too deep in Tor's run of Conan books to give up now. That being said, this is one of the worst books I've ever read, and one of only three books I've ever given a one star rating - two of which are Carpenter's Conan pastiches.
Crom give me strength.
Edit: I'd also like to point out the hilarity of Carpenter boasting about how he's written more Conan than any other author, including Robert E. Howard himself, as though the quantity of his Conan output correlates with its quality in any way. It doesn't. Howard could do more in a single page than Carpenter has done in the last five full novels I've read of his. I don't expect that to change with the next four either.
December 13, 2018
A really odd Conan book. Conan is once again cheated at cards and once again runs afoul of the local constabulary and is once again enslaved. He is sent to a remote open pit gold mine to spend his life digging in the ground but he doesn't much care for it so he escapes. He is left alone in the wilderness, completely lost and completely naked. Not really a problem for him and he starts his new life as a forest hermit. Conan has finally had enough of civilization and vows to never return. He meets a group of savages and joins up to live their happy-go-lucky pastoral life. Civilization intrudes with expected results.
That's the Conan half. The other half of the book, the more interesting part, is about a young girl named Tamsin and her doll Ninga. Tamsin leads a pretty horrible life surrounded by death and is considered an outcast among her own people. She also has magic powers. We follow her for years as she develops from the little girl that will not speak to the powerful leader that craves conquest. Naturally Tamsin and Conan are fated to meet.
An interesting character study of Conan. His constant conflict with the civilized people sours him on the whole thing and he reverts to his barbarian ways in the most extreme way possible. He is actually happy and content. It makes sense that at some time in his life Conan would be fed up with being cheated and imprisoned and beaten and would make a move to get away from it all. Especially after a particularly close brush with death. This is the Conan that would have been if he never left Cimmeria, except his new friends are less stabby than the normal Cimmerian. His return to the civilized world is the result of a predictable occurrence, and Conan's reaction is back to his normally fatalistic view of life.
The story of Tamsin is equally intriguing. We see how a simple girl could face hardships and develop a way to cope with the horrors she has faced.
Most Conan lovers won't care much for this one, but I found it to be one of the more thought-provoking reads as opposed to the regular hack and slash. Not that there is anything wrong with hack and slash, it's what makes Conan the greatest of all the wild men of the mountains/jungle/desert.
That's the Conan half. The other half of the book, the more interesting part, is about a young girl named Tamsin and her doll Ninga. Tamsin leads a pretty horrible life surrounded by death and is considered an outcast among her own people. She also has magic powers. We follow her for years as she develops from the little girl that will not speak to the powerful leader that craves conquest. Naturally Tamsin and Conan are fated to meet.
An interesting character study of Conan. His constant conflict with the civilized people sours him on the whole thing and he reverts to his barbarian ways in the most extreme way possible. He is actually happy and content. It makes sense that at some time in his life Conan would be fed up with being cheated and imprisoned and beaten and would make a move to get away from it all. Especially after a particularly close brush with death. This is the Conan that would have been if he never left Cimmeria, except his new friends are less stabby than the normal Cimmerian. His return to the civilized world is the result of a predictable occurrence, and Conan's reaction is back to his normally fatalistic view of life.
The story of Tamsin is equally intriguing. We see how a simple girl could face hardships and develop a way to cope with the horrors she has faced.
Most Conan lovers won't care much for this one, but I found it to be one of the more thought-provoking reads as opposed to the regular hack and slash. Not that there is anything wrong with hack and slash, it's what makes Conan the greatest of all the wild men of the mountains/jungle/desert.
April 24, 2009
Wow, what a piece of shit. I think a entire half of this book was boring details about Conan traipsing through the forest being a survivor, skinning animals, making fire, fishing, etc. I know it sounds cool to do, but it's boring to read about. I think the writer was looking for word count. The writer's also got an annoying foot fetish that pops up every once in a while with Conan's girlfriend. The ending was really abrupt, the narrative voice was shitty, etc. I think this guy's writing career consists of 11 Conan books and some sci-fi novel "published" online. BUT, this book was saved from the pit of 1-stars by a few lines that were complete AWESOME. I quote:
"Yet by now, pain was a devalued coin in Conan's inner economy."
"At this action, sighs and lewd remarks sounded from across the room. The tavern women - four of them, in assorted sizes, shapes, and slatternly costumes - seemed genuinely impressed by the baring of the outlander's [i.e., Conan's:] husky torso. Two drifted over, cooing with admiration, to stroke the sleek fur of the cape and the sleeker, muscular pelt of its owner. To these intimacies he failed to respond, except with impatient snorts and sullen, dangerous glances that soon drove his admirers to Regnard's side of the table."
"Yet by now, pain was a devalued coin in Conan's inner economy."
"At this action, sighs and lewd remarks sounded from across the room. The tavern women - four of them, in assorted sizes, shapes, and slatternly costumes - seemed genuinely impressed by the baring of the outlander's [i.e., Conan's:] husky torso. Two drifted over, cooing with admiration, to stroke the sleek fur of the cape and the sleeker, muscular pelt of its owner. To these intimacies he failed to respond, except with impatient snorts and sullen, dangerous glances that soon drove his admirers to Regnard's side of the table."
January 26, 2022
With the grace typical of a Carpenter Conan, Conan gets smacked over the head after a late night gambling session and carted off to a slave mine. He makes his escape via an underground stream, and finds himself in a strange land peopled by primitive tribes without metal, agriculture, or even clothes. This in a region of the world that is presumably not far south of the Hyperborean tundra. Upon arrival, Conan immediately forgets the wanderlust that is his one consistent driving force throughout all his adventures, and settles down to a life of hunting elk and banging his new wife.
Parallel to, and *completely unrelated* to the main plot, we learn of a girl named Tamsin whose doll named Ninga is somehow a goddess and leads her to overthrow the kingdom and church of Brythinia for reasons the reader is never made privy to. The plots collide at around the 80% mark, where a group of mercenaries sent by Tamsin kill Conan's tribes to steal some trinkets they have, and Conan tails them back to civilisation. He hits the goddess in the head with a stone axe and apparently that's all it takes.
I think this is emblematic of Carpenter's Conan works. After the first two books or so he got tired of Conan and wanted to write about something else. About god-dolls, about ancient nukes, about Vietnam. Conan is shoehorned in just to make the thing publishable, and spends the plot wondering what he's doing there.
Parallel to, and *completely unrelated* to the main plot, we learn of a girl named Tamsin whose doll named Ninga is somehow a goddess and leads her to overthrow the kingdom and church of Brythinia for reasons the reader is never made privy to. The plots collide at around the 80% mark, where a group of mercenaries sent by Tamsin kill Conan's tribes to steal some trinkets they have, and Conan tails them back to civilisation. He hits the goddess in the head with a stone axe and apparently that's all it takes.
I think this is emblematic of Carpenter's Conan works. After the first two books or so he got tired of Conan and wanted to write about something else. About god-dolls, about ancient nukes, about Vietnam. Conan is shoehorned in just to make the thing publishable, and spends the plot wondering what he's doing there.
June 26, 2020
This was among the first Conan novels I ever read. (At this point, I was unaware of Howard, and I wouldn’t read his unadulterated stories for another decade.)
The most interesting aspect of the story is when Conan is reduced to a pure Tarzan-like savage after escaping a mine. Unfortunately Conan after meeting some local forest people is shy about bedding his mate among them. This is supposedly the same Conan who bedded Belit on the deck of her ship. I guess Carpenter didn’t actually read Howard too well.
The other storyline involves a young girl seeking revenge on mercenaries who murdered her family. The girl has a randomly possessed doll and becomes queen of Brythunia. Naturally she and Conan come into conflict.
Unfortunately the reason for their clash is rather unconvincing. Also, Carpenter resolves it quickly and anticlimactally.
Like most pastiche writers, Leonard Carpenter just didn’t seem to understand Conan and never got the character right. This almost invariably led to poor plotting and uninteresting storylines for the Cimmerian. There are a few good moments in this book—like the resolution of an earlier established subplot at the end of the book—but overall this is lower-tier pastiche.
The most interesting aspect of the story is when Conan is reduced to a pure Tarzan-like savage after escaping a mine. Unfortunately Conan after meeting some local forest people is shy about bedding his mate among them. This is supposedly the same Conan who bedded Belit on the deck of her ship. I guess Carpenter didn’t actually read Howard too well.
The other storyline involves a young girl seeking revenge on mercenaries who murdered her family. The girl has a randomly possessed doll and becomes queen of Brythunia. Naturally she and Conan come into conflict.
Unfortunately the reason for their clash is rather unconvincing. Also, Carpenter resolves it quickly and anticlimactally.
Like most pastiche writers, Leonard Carpenter just didn’t seem to understand Conan and never got the character right. This almost invariably led to poor plotting and uninteresting storylines for the Cimmerian. There are a few good moments in this book—like the resolution of an earlier established subplot at the end of the book—but overall this is lower-tier pastiche.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 7, 2020
Predictable. Anti-climatic. After escaping imprisonment in a gem mine Conan finds himself in an almost idealistic savage country. The one redeeming factor of this book is the author's use of woodcraft knowledge. But depicting Conan as unwilling to find his way out of the land he's in is uncharacteristic of the wanderlust inherent in the character. What's also annoying is that the author has to split the story, every other chapter being devoted to another character and story arc so that predictably Conan and the sorceress meet at the end. An end that is rushed and very anti-climatic.
January 14, 2021
En lättläst liten historia, som i princip bara är en conan till namnet. Halva boken handlar om en mirakelgöreska tillika profetessa, den andra halvan om en conangestalt som, som förrymd fånge, blir adopterad av och ingift i en iroques-stam (som behändigt nog stoppats in utan kulturell kontext, två veckor från ett lands huvudstad). På sitt sätt är historien söt, men den är väldigt väldigt poänglös. Conan dödar profetessans gud i slutscenerna, eftersom dessa dödat hans nya klan.
June 7, 2022
too much prologue and not enough gory action.
January 22, 2015
Yeah this was OK but I guess there is a reason why the better Conan tales are made up of shorter stories...namely that although the tales themselves are fun and fast paced they are truth be told fairly one dimensional.
Such is the case with this tale a book which in one part tells the story of the ascendancy of a Evil goddess queen and a tale of Conan in the wild....needless to say both Stories cross over though it has to be said maybe a little too neatly and swiftly in the end.
As other reviews have mentioned their is a bit of filler in this book...there is no real need to go into Conans Woodman skills..if this had been a modern book in the vein of say David Morrell where a contemporary figure through circumstances was having to embrace survival skills this would have been OK...however as this book is set in times when these skills would have been commonplace going into over elaborate detail of them seems pointless.
Still all told I enjoyed this in a pulpy fun non too serious way...
Such is the case with this tale a book which in one part tells the story of the ascendancy of a Evil goddess queen and a tale of Conan in the wild....needless to say both Stories cross over though it has to be said maybe a little too neatly and swiftly in the end.
As other reviews have mentioned their is a bit of filler in this book...there is no real need to go into Conans Woodman skills..if this had been a modern book in the vein of say David Morrell where a contemporary figure through circumstances was having to embrace survival skills this would have been OK...however as this book is set in times when these skills would have been commonplace going into over elaborate detail of them seems pointless.
Still all told I enjoyed this in a pulpy fun non too serious way...
July 8, 2010
"She lacks proper respect for a huntsman. She has provoked you and used you badly." He frowned in pious disapproval. "You should strike her and teach her her place."
... reaching up she clawed his cheek with a sharp-nailed hand.
Lightning-quick, Conan cuffed her on the side of the head. Though slight, the blow stopped her; she clutched at him for balance, then lay her face submissively against his chest.
Word spread swiftly through the crowd. "He struck her, now they are wedded," the men affirmed.
_____
Seriously, could Conan have any other kind of wedding?
... reaching up she clawed his cheek with a sharp-nailed hand.
Lightning-quick, Conan cuffed her on the side of the head. Though slight, the blow stopped her; she clutched at him for balance, then lay her face submissively against his chest.
Word spread swiftly through the crowd. "He struck her, now they are wedded," the men affirmed.
_____
Seriously, could Conan have any other kind of wedding?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 19, 2011
A BIT TO MUCH ABOUT CONAN'S SURVIVAL IN THE FOREST, BUT STILL A GOOD ADVENTURE.
July 27, 2012
An atypical Conan. Starts off in a jewel mine from which Conan
eventually escapes... and ends up in the Land of the Lost... and gets
married?!
eventually escapes... and ends up in the Land of the Lost... and gets
married?!
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