A review by gemmadee
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian: Book One by Robert E. Howard

3.0

I wish I could actually give this book 2-4 stars. These are the original Conan stories as written by Howard and printed in the magazine Weird Tales, without the changes that were made by other authors for subsequent publications. Conan was obviously both a meal ticket and a serious creative attempt for Howard, as evidenced by the widely varying quality of the stories. The obvious racial prejudices of the 1930's Texas-based author are an additional challenge to the reader. But the best of the Conan stories are awesome, and even in the midst of the iron thews and scantily clad slave women that dominate the pulpier stories Howard occassionally produces lines of prose that resonate like poetry.