Dark Jezter
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Sir Osis of Liver said:
My thoughts exactly. Other authors have written enjoyable Conan stories, but they don't compare to the original Conan stories by Robert E. Howard.
Robert Jordan Conan Stories, are other Conan stories like this?
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My thoughts exactly. Other authors have written enjoyable Conan stories, but they don't compare to the original Conan stories by Robert E. Howard.
The Blue Elf
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blackshirt5 said:
The reason it always ends that way were he Stabs a powerful being while it is dead is because its his tradmark way of saying I finally kill the @$*&! , so to make sure that this @*&$! won't comeback so I'm going to stab him again.
Orius
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jdavis said:
ARRRRGGGG!!! The pain! Make it stop!
Seriously though, I don't remember Jordan wasting paper as much as he did with Elaine in the last WoT book.
I'd really have to go back and read them again. The two writers whose style I'm most familiar with are Howard and de Camp, and there's no real competition there, Howard was clearly better. I don't remember exactly how Jordan stacks up. I do remember that his stories are grittier than Howard's. He does have some recurring characters that reapper thoughout several novels IIRC, which is unusual for Conan, most of the stories tend to be self-contained. However, some of his writing in those books tend to be a bit weak, at least compared to the earlier books in the WoT series.
Pbartender
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I've read most all of the Conan stories. To sum up...
The original Robert E. Howard stories, the Lin Carter stories and the Sprague De Camp (who actually do a modestly good job of emulating Howard's style) stories are similar in style to the movie Conan the Barbarian.
The Robert Jordan stories and others are more like the movie Conan the Destroyer.
Watch one movie right after the other, and you'll see what I mean.
The original Robert E. Howard stories, the Lin Carter stories and the Sprague De Camp (who actually do a modestly good job of emulating Howard's style) stories are similar in style to the movie Conan the Barbarian.
The Robert Jordan stories and others are more like the movie Conan the Destroyer.
Watch one movie right after the other, and you'll see what I mean.
Dark Jezter
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To his credit, I will say that L. Sprague De Camp is probably the best non-Howard Conan author.
However, I am disgusted by the way De Camp made edits to Howard's Conan stories so that they'd mesh better with his own stories. If you are reading the books that contain both De Camp and Howard Conan stories, you can be certain that you aren't reading the original, unaltered Conan stories.
However, I am disgusted by the way De Camp made edits to Howard's Conan stories so that they'd mesh better with his own stories. If you are reading the books that contain both De Camp and Howard Conan stories, you can be certain that you aren't reading the original, unaltered Conan stories.
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Dark Jezter
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Orius said:
Robert Jordan wrote the sceenplay to Conan the Destroyer, IIRC.
John Milius wrote the script to Conan the Barbarian.
Luckily, John Milius also wrote the script for the upcoming King Conan: Crown of Iron, which could be Arnold's next project after Terminator 3 if the studio executives can get off their butts and begin pre-production.
EDIT: Never mind, Robert Jordan did not write the screenplay to Conan the Destroyer, only the novelization.
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