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koki_siringo's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.75
noca_74's review
4.0
I've only read about half the stories in this thus far, but they were all really entertaining. Especially enjoyed the Solomon Kane tale.
richard_nell's review
5.0
Picked this nice little anthology up at the library, hurray for free books!
Ah, Howard. What can you really say about innovators, other than 'thank you'? I imagine I'm not the only young fantasy reader (young men in particular, I expect) to have picked up a Howard story and goggled at some hyper masculine killer or king surrounded by poetic prose. I didn't know about his life back then - his early difficulties, this skinny kid that disciplined himself to a more muscular frame. Like him I was an ameteur boxer, just another young man trying to let out emotion with fists. I read about his feeling of isolation and understood it - this lover of history and books surrounded by blue collar texans and open plain.
I digress. A great collection from an inspiring writer lost much too soon. Howard is required reading for fantasy buffs.
Ah, Howard. What can you really say about innovators, other than 'thank you'? I imagine I'm not the only young fantasy reader (young men in particular, I expect) to have picked up a Howard story and goggled at some hyper masculine killer or king surrounded by poetic prose. I didn't know about his life back then - his early difficulties, this skinny kid that disciplined himself to a more muscular frame. Like him I was an ameteur boxer, just another young man trying to let out emotion with fists. I read about his feeling of isolation and understood it - this lover of history and books surrounded by blue collar texans and open plain.
I digress. A great collection from an inspiring writer lost much too soon. Howard is required reading for fantasy buffs.
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