Conan the Invincible

Rating:
Summary: classic Conan
Review: This is not an ambitious novel. Yet it perfectly fulfills the mandates of the sword & sorcery novel: plently of bloodshed, beautiful women, exotic warriors, and soulless necromancy. Jordan wrote it before his sprawling Wheel of Time books, and it offers the quick-pacing, thrill-a-minute style that his current series now lacks (for better or worse). I heartily recommend it; it was one of the original books that hooked me onto reading when I was a kid, and I've read it again a few times since.

Rating:
Summary: classic Conan
Review: This is not an ambitious novel. Yet it perfectly fulfills the mandates of the sword & sorcery novel: plently of bloodshed, beautiful women, exotic warriors, and soulless necromancy. Jordan wrote it before his sprawling Wheel of Time books, and it offers the quick-pacing, thrill-a-minute style that his current series now lacks (for better or worse). I heartily recommend it; it was one of the original books that hooked me onto reading when I was a kid, and I've read it again a few times since.