[Muscle Car Lover]

Originally Posted by ChrisBlair

Ever read R.E. Howard's Conan stories? Only one of them is really a novel- 'The Hour of the Dragon', but they are all good.

Howard's Conan is very different from the John Milius/Oliver Stone version of Conan in the 1982 film 'Conan the Barbarian'. Howard's Conan is cunning, intelligent, and multi-faceted. Howard was possibly insane- he thought Conan stood over him as he wrote according to some reports. But his stories are intriguing.

best part- you can read all those stories for free:


http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1303751h.html#stories

I had a set of first editions of those books. I sold them years ago. I love the first film so very much. The books IMO were ok. I fell in love with the "Legends of Lone Wolf" novels by John Grant, just wonderful reads with so much magic to offer. A sample?:

'And then the first fire of sun rose above the far horizon. A single shaft of dawn light came across the sea.
Lone Wolf stood, the Sommerswerd still stretched out towards the huge red tent.
The shaft of light touched the very tip of the sword.
Both Lone Wolf and the Sommerswerd became a statue carved out of incandescent white light.....
A thrust of lightning sprang from the Sommersword to the Darklord's tent. Thunder shattered the air. The tent vanished, and in it's place there was a great column of fire, expanding heavenwards.
All of the world seemed to howl with the anguish of Zagarna's death.....
And then there was rain - warm, gentle rain.
Lone Wolf sheathed the Sommerswerd, its light now only a subdued red glow, and cupped his hands to the rain.
He tasted the water once, and then again.
And then he fell.