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S'està carregant… Conan the Magnificent (1984 original; edició 1984)de Robert Jordan (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. pb Jordan was a good writer. But he was so sterile and precise. That is not a good way to approach Conan. I own everything ever printed of Conan since Howard created him. While he is better than many of the pastiche writers (Perry, Carpenter). There some who really carry the torch(John Maddox Roberts) . Of course no one can touch Howard. But Conan is Conan and as a fan I will take him in any format. Good or bad. Well, Robert Jordan neither violated the Conan canon, nor came up with anything especially new and interesting in this novel. The chief villain is a religious leader and sorceror whose level of depraved sexual sublimation is only slightly more explicit than what Conan creator Robert E. Howard would have written. He commands untold hordes of what amount to thinly-disguised Jihadists. (Note that this book was composed during the Gulf War, which perversely mobilized American anti-Muslim sentiment against the secular Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein.) Conan is "magnificent" for being able to carry on simultaneous affairs with a noblewoman and a thief, for being absolutely flawless in contests of arms, and for slaying the great monster--yeah, it's basically a dragon--and thus usurping the evident destiny of one of the supporting characters. As I was reflecting on what, if anything, might distinguish this book from dozens of other latter-day Conan stories written over three decades or so, I noticed that the pacing was a little quirky. Jordan's most conspicuous work is an enormous multi-mega-volume fantasy series called "The Wheel of Time," so perhaps he has never really developed a rhythm for a short stand-alone novel--even one that could draw on thousands of pages of previous character and setting development. And then it occurred to me that there really is no conventional, forumulaic pacing or structure for a Conan novel, at least not as established by REH, since the overwhelming perponderance of Howard's Conan writing took the form of short stories. In this respect, the tendency of later authors to write Conan novels is in marked contrast with the more conservative inclination of most Lovecraftian pastiche-artists to stick with the original short form. Anyhow, this book. It doesn't present Conan as a character in any way that's likely to be compelling to someone who hasn't already got some imaginative investment in him from some other source. It's got gratuitous female nudity and inconvenience, and reasonably amusing rivalries and one-upmanship among the characters. There's no shortage of violence to adrenalize the melodrama. Being okay with all of that, I was still disappointed by the way that the final chapter resolved plot elements at a rather breakneck pace, almost making it seem as though the climax and denoument were added out of a sense of grudging obligation. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Amid the savage crags of the Kezankian Mountains, Conan is stalked by the sultry huntress Jondra, sought by the lovely thief Tamira, and caught between the Army of Zamora and Brythunian warriors seeking revenge. The mighty Cimmerian must battle hordes of Kezankian hillmen, face the sorcerous evil of Basrakan Imalla, and finally, slay that which cannot be slain: the beast of fire. To conquer, to survive, he must be...Conan the Magnificent No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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