OFF: That one obscure album.. Conan

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

> As I remember the Conan novels...  (the only books I HAVEN'T read are
> those by Robert Jordan) they were very dark and Lovecraftian.

     Good heaven, no, I've certainly not read the Jordan ones.
Horrors. Nor all the Sprague de Camps, even (who, IMO, has never
equalled _Lest Darkness Fall_!)

> I had read all of the stories before the movie came out.  I saved EVERY
> clipping and
> reference to it that I could find.  I was a total freak.  I guess it is no
> small wonder that
> I was ... disappointed.

     Oh, well, there you go.

>>     Destroyer on the other hand, I found humourous, but nothing
>>like the books.
>
> Funny..  this one actually followed a complete original story...  to a
> point.  Again, under-played.
> Should have been several shades darker, and with very little "fun."

     Several? ;)  Many :) The tone of "Destroyer" hit me all wrong.
Original storyline don't mean a darn when it's _executed_ like that.
I've heard a lot of lame covers of good tunes (to get vaguely back
on topic :) and Destroyer was one of them.

     Also drifting back closer to topic, my first and favorite
swords and sorcery stuff was Fritz Lieber's, which I note has
been republished with intros by Moorcock.  Yeah, I realize FL was
much later, but youngling that I am I lump it all together :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/