D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

No it doesn't. Someone might read Howard and simply have a more charitable view of the text and of Howard than you,
This is the thing again. We are not attacking your hero. He was a product of his time, probably suffered from depression, and never got to grow old and maybe reevaluate his youthful opinions. We feel sorry for him.

That does not, can never, make what he wrote “okay”, or comfortable, enjoyable reading for someone who does not have those values.
 

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The first trilogy of The Black Company by Glen Cook is a must-read if you like gray fantasy.
Agree 100%. As someone who read all the way to the end of the series, I recommend just going with the first three. They are excellent. I enjoyed parts of the rest but it never hit the same levels as the first three books. That said, I understand a new book is coming out this fall and I'll read it. No idea what to say about it because the series has a rather definitive finish.

Edited to add: the last book Soldiers Live (and wonder why) has the best title for a book I've ever read.
 
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There were some earlier in this discussion, not giving names, that made it seem like they thought there was something wrong with people wanting to read REH or HPL when there's other options for those genres. It sounded like the thinking that leads to calls for book burning to me. I personally don't see any issue with enjoying works with problematic elements.
Nope but someone did offer a less problematic alternative author... and even asked for less problematic stories by Howard.
 

This is the thing again. We are not attacking your hero. He was a product of his time, probably suffered from depression, and never got to grow old and maybe reevaluate his youthful opinions. We feel sorry for him.

That does not, can never, make what he wrote “okay”, or comfortable, enjoyable reading for someone who does not have those values.
As I said before neither Howard nor Lovecraft are my heroes. But this post doesn’t seem to be addressing what I said at all in response to this post:

. If someone else does not find anything questionable, it can only mean they share those same values.

I wasn’t talking about Howard, I was talking about how you would characterize someone who disagree with you about Howard (I.e. this point you made that if someone doesn’t find anything objectionable it can only mean they share those same values). This claim just seems quite false to me for the reasons I stated
 



Well, having caight up on the thread, it seems like it is no longer about the topic. I was hoping to get some book recommendations out of it...
I'm still interested to hear about Dungeon Crawler Carl, if anyone can give their thoughts on it. Someone likened it to Discworld and that got me a little curious.
 

I'm still interested to hear about Dungeon Crawler Carl, if anyone can give their thoughts on it. Someone likened it to Discworld and that got me a little curious.
When I google it, I get a picture of Seth MacFarland's face. Does that mean there's an adaptation to screen already in the works?
 

I do think at this point, well, not this point, a long, long time ago actually, D&D pretty much became its own thing. I know I realized by 1991 or so that D&D was very different from any of the fantasy books I had read up until that point. I'm sure young D&D players in their twenties grew up on a steady diet of anime and books that weren't even available for me back in 1991.
 

I'm still interested to hear about Dungeon Crawler Carl, if anyone can give their thoughts on it. Someone likened it to Discworld and that got me a little curious.
They are high on my list (I am reading comedy crime stuff right now). But I can recommend the LitRPG series, "He Who Fights with Monsters" by Shirtaloon. Warning: BIG books, and 12 of them so far, and he puts out a new book relatively often. I prefer them as audio books.
 

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