Conan and the Death Lord of Thanza

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Summary: Weak Conan Pastiche
Review: Conan and the Death Lord of Thanza is one of the weaker Conan pastiches primarily because Roland Green is one of the weakest of the writers who were allowed to write them. It reads about as good as the average fan fiction with little of any of Howards skill and spirit.

Hiding in the remote Thanza Mountains, Conan encounters bandits, sorcerers, and the Soul of Thanza, an evil force capable of raising the dead and destroying the earth. Some of the pastiches are decent but this isn't one of them. The characters are exceedingly weak and the plot is underdeveloped.

Rating:
Summary: not the best but not the worst
Review: It took a while for this tale to get rolling. It was heavily mixed with both a slow story line and intriguing situations. This was a thin story, however it was not a total waste of time. This one belongs in the middle of the pile. Not Green's best. It left me wondering.

Rating:
Summary: now hold on a minute
Review: Nobody's expecting a Conan book to be Proust. That's not to say a really, really good Conan book couldn't be written, post-Howard, but this sure isn't it. Still, hold on a minute with the vitriol! Green isn't bad at all - and his characters aren't at all flat... except for Conan himself, who, I admit, eludes Green. Which you might think is a fatal flaw for a Conan book, but no! As 90 minutes of escapist reading, you could do a lot worse than this book

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Summary: a weakly contrived "movie plot".
Review: this book was totally disjointed. the concept was sound,but from the beginning the characters were sadly two-dimensional.also it seems like Green couldnt make up his mind. and kept changing their personality to suit his poor story,which would have better fit into a hollywood movie of the ridiculous"batman & robin" vein