Customer Reviews
I AM CONAAAAAAAAN!!!! - By: omens, 07 Dec 2008 
I bought this book shortly after having a reminiscing afternoon watching youtube videos of cartoons from my childhood. 'Conan The Adventurer' brought back many fond memories, so I decided to buy the season one DVD. Managed to stumble across this book & on a whim, bought it. Up until then, I'd never heard of Robert E. Howard, never knew that there were stories from which Conan was created, barely knew there were comics, & had seen the Conan movie with Arnie a coupla times.
I've been a big fan of barbarian-type character such as He-Man, Hercules, & as mentioned, loved the conan cartoon. The book is fantastic. I am currently only half-way through it but there are so many stories. As mentioned by others, the order of the stories isn't chronological (it starts with a a couple of stories that should be at the end of the book, not at the beginning) but they pave the way for what to expect.
The stories show the various sides of Conan, apart from his barbarism, & there are a few unexpected actions from Conan even when you begin to understand his character. Don't expect origin stories that depict Conan's birth, his childhood or adolescence. They are stories that deal with an adult Conan, spanning from his earlier days to his later ones.
The writing is fantastic & completely involves youin the action. You WANT to read the next story, the next page, the next paragraph.
There are rumours that a new Conan movie is to made. If they are true, the writers, director & main actor should all read the book to get an accurate picture of what Conan is like. There is more than enough material to make a beautiful trilogy!
The one and only - By: Mr. Jake Croot, 22 Sep 2008 I highly recommend this book, it is the only conan book you need.
I got this after watching the film & reading a couple of the comics. It blows the film out of the water, I mean the film is good, but this is so much better.
When you read some of the stories you can see where other authors got their ideas from.
If you like the film, you'll like this & if you like fantasy you like this. If you are a Robert E Howard fan you'll love this...
...I just hope they release Solomon Kane & Kull editions aswell.
The only Conan you'll ever need. - By: IanW, 07 Sep 2008 Forget the two Arnold movies, forget the comics, forget the other-writer penned Conan tales, & forget the edited & revised stories even those by the well-intentioned & highly respected L. Sprague de Camp; these are the original Conan storiesin as close a form to that as Robert E. Howard intendedin all their blood-soaked pulp glory. This is action-adventure-fantasy at its very best writtenin a vivid muscular style that no-one has ever quite imitated or improved on. You may want more Conan after reading these stories, indeed you certainly will, but believe me, you don't need them.
It would be nice if this excellent volume sells well enough for the publishers to consider a similarin size companion volume containing a selection of stories about Howard's other pulp action heroes.
fantastic book but not what i was looking for - By: jimbob the the wan, 17 Oct 2007 
i bought this book to make the wait for the game conan hyborian adventures a little less nail biteing. i bought this book hopeing it would tell me everything about conan & his age unfortunatly it dose not. it dose to go into conans child hood & his rise to power.i found this very anoying but never the less this is still a fantastic book & robert e howerd is a fantastic writer
Great reading - By: Gary Calder, 05 Oct 2007 After reading the above reviews all i can say is that i agree totally with them all....sheer class....i will return to this one again & again.
