Conan the Destroyer

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Summary: The movie was horrible; the book is worse
Review: As a long-time of fan I was disgusted by both the movie and the book. Jordan tries his hand here but comes way short of the previous books. He should just stick to WOT.

Rating:
Summary: The movie was horrible; the book is worse
Review: The movie Conan the Destoyer was a disaster. We all know that. Fortunately, Robert Jordan was hired to novelize it, and was given a lot of leeway. While he remains loyal to the plot and pacing of the movie, as well as to the events of the first Conan film, Jordan changes dialogue, character and location a little so that this book also fits in with the saga of Conan stories.

For example, while in the movie Taramis was queen, this contradicts Conan canon, so in the book she is princess, sister of King Tiridates. He also adds more action than is in the film, and explains certain events which just sort of arbitrarily happen in the movie. He fills in the plotholes from the film nicely, and adds typical Conan gore and sex, albeit not as much as in some of the other Conan stories. Another nice touch in this book is that he gives the characters roles. In the movie, Malak is just kind of there for no reason. Here he is fleshed out a litte. Also, in the movie the wizard Akiro, who is brought along for his magic, just sits around doing nothing; not so, here -- he's shooting fireballs, setting wards, making potions.

Although this is certainly not one of the better Conan novels, because of the limited script and story Jordan had to write with, it certainly is fun and far better than the movie of the same name. If you're a Conan fan, or if you liked the first movie, I definitely recommend this one.

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Summary: The best of both worlds
Review: The movie Conan the Destoyer was a disaster. We all know that. Fortunately, Robert Jordan was hired to novelize it, and was given a lot of leeway. While he remains loyal to the plot and pacing of the movie, as well as to the events of the first Conan film, Jordan changes dialogue, character and location a little so that this book also fits in with the saga of Conan stories.

For example, while in the movie Taramis was queen, this contradicts Conan canon, so in the book she is princess, sister of King Tiridates. He also adds more action than is in the film, and explains certain events which just sort of arbitrarily happen in the movie. He fills in the plotholes from the film nicely, and adds typical Conan gore and sex, albeit not as much as in some of the other Conan stories. Another nice touch in this book is that he gives the characters roles. In the movie, Malak is just kind of there for no reason. Here he is fleshed out a litte. Also, in the movie the wizard Akiro, who is brought along for his magic, just sits around doing nothing; not so, here -- he's shooting fireballs, setting wards, making potions.

Although this is certainly not one of the better Conan novels, because of the limited script and story Jordan had to write with, it certainly is fun and far better than the movie of the same name. If you're a Conan fan, or if you liked the first movie, I definitely recommend this one.

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Summary: Not A Wheel of time Clone But worth a read
Review: The one and only reason I bought this book was because it was written by Robert Jorden.I have been a long time fan of the Wheel of time series and was hoping for something similar when i bought Conan But was quite plesantly surprised by someThing quite markedly Different.Firstly the book is far more pacier and more action packed than the WOT series.What really this book lacks is that it siply does not make you long to read the next book.It is hard not to compare this book to Jordans previous works as wellas the movie that was released of the same nam .All considered its a good book for the price you pay but don't expect a WOT clone