cail_judy's review
2.0
The Moorcock and Dunsany stories make this worth picking up for a quick read — the rest are very lackluster.
This was my first time reading de Camp's take on Conan. Conan shows-up halfway through and de Camp's writing lacks the vitaliy that was so intrinsic in Howard's writing.
The tales by Bloch, Jakes and Kuttner are pretty terrible. Flat characters swimming in a sea of adverbs.
The Luigi De Pascalis story is an interesting blip, but I agree with other review — de Camp should not have included the afterword.
Skip this and pickup Howard's first collection of Conan stories—"The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian"— through Del Rey and get right into the good stuff.
The book itself is a cool little paperback. Solid cover-art.
This was my first time reading de Camp's take on Conan. Conan shows-up halfway through and de Camp's writing lacks the vitaliy that was so intrinsic in Howard's writing.
The tales by Bloch, Jakes and Kuttner are pretty terrible. Flat characters swimming in a sea of adverbs.
The Luigi De Pascalis story is an interesting blip, but I agree with other review — de Camp should not have included the afterword.
Skip this and pickup Howard's first collection of Conan stories—"The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian"— through Del Rey and get right into the good stuff.
The book itself is a cool little paperback. Solid cover-art.
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