Conan the Great

Rating:
Summary: An entertaining read!
Review: This is the first Conan book I have read from the popular Tor series, although I have read some of Robert E. Howard's original stuff. In this one, King Conan befriends the Jester dwarf, Delvyn after a battle with Nemidia and Ophir leaves Conan victoious against the two rival kingdoms. Conan is easily suckered by Delvyn into expanding his power and becoming the emperor of all the hyborean kingdoms. But the dwarf has an ulterior motive, and that is to hook up with a king powerful enough to spread the cult of some weirdo demon to the whole world, and he figures Conan is stupid enough to do it. Global mayhem ensues as Conan tramples over neighboring kingodoms in an attempt to rule the world before Armiro, prince of Koth does it first. Overall, the book was entertaining, but I couldn't help feeling that it was a bit unworthy as a follow-up to The Hour of the Dragon by REH. The story seemed to miander a bit and was a little over long, and the ending was a bit dissapointing. Conan's reasons for conquering the world should have been a little stronger, and the book lacked the pulpy brutality that REH enfused into his stories of Conan's world . But the book was good enough to encourage me to pick up some of the other Conan books Tor has produced, so it does have some merit.

Rating:
Summary: An entertaining read!
Review: This is the first Conan book I have read from the popular Tor series, although I have read some of Robert E. Howard's original stuff. In this one, King Conan befriends the Jester dwarf, Delvyn after a battle with Nemidia and Ophir leaves Conan victoious against the two rival kingdoms. Conan is easily suckered by Delvyn into expanding his power and becoming the emperor of all the hyborean kingdoms. But the dwarf has an ulterior motive, and that is to hook up with a king powerful enough to spread the cult of some weirdo demon to the whole world, and he figures Conan is stupid enough to do it, and global mayhem ensues as Conan tramples over neighboring kingodoms in an attempt to rule the world before Armiro, prince of Koth does it first. Overall, the book was entertaining, but I couldn't help feelin that it was a bit unworthy as a follow-up to The Hour of the Dragon bu REH. The story seemed to miander a bit and was a little over long, and the ending was a bit dissapointing. Conan's reasons for conquering the world should have been a little stronger, and the book lacked the pulpy brutality that REH enfused into his stories of Conan's world . But the book was good enough to encourage me to pick up some of the other Conan books Tor has produced, so it does have some merit.

Rating:
Summary: An entertaining read!
Review: This is the first Conan book I have read from the popular Tor series, although I have read some of Robert E. Howard's original stuff. In this one, King Conan befriends the Jester dwarf, Delvyn after a battle with Nemidia and Ophir leaves Conan victoious against the two rival kingdoms. Conan is easily suckered by Delvyn into expanding his power and becoming the emperor of all the hyborean kingdoms. But the dwarf has an ulterior motive, and that is to hook up with a king powerful enough to spread the cult of some weirdo demon to the whole world, and he figures Conan is stupid enough to do it. Global mayhem ensues as Conan tramples over neighboring kingodoms in an attempt to rule the world before Armiro, prince of Koth does it first. Overall, the book was entertaining, but I couldn't help feeling that it was a bit unworthy as a follow-up to The Hour of the Dragon by REH. The story seemed to miander a bit and was a little over long, and the ending was a bit dissapointing. Conan's reasons for conquering the world should have been a little stronger, and the book lacked the pulpy brutality that REH enfused into his stories of Conan's world . But the book was good enough to encourage me to pick up some of the other Conan books Tor has produced, so it does have some merit.