Recent content by xulwolf

Do you think that Mitra was tied to the crown of Aquilonia, as the chaos gods were tied to the ring of kings in the Elric novels?

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If what you are saying is true than the story is basically as follows: Once there was country called Aquilonia where COnan killed the king and took over rulership. In this country only one god could be worshipped - Mitra. When Conan became king he let...

While I have a few minutes I would like to rant about the magic in the novels. I hate high magic, both in novels and rpgs. That's my opinion and I won't force it on others. The Anok series were not high magic. The World of Conan novels and the Conan Roleplaying Game are two separate beings...

The comment is simple. I was replying to a post that read: "Yes, but Coleman actually had a black Shemite character in the book, re-emphasising that this was not a misunderstanding brought about by miles and cultures, but by an author who failed to do some very basic research. " To me the...

Rather than posting a review, I would say read them for yourselves. If any of them win the readers "Worst Book of the Year Award", then it has been a good year in literature. I do agree that out of the 6 World of Conan novels I enjoyed "The Venom of Luxur" the least.

Where is Arejun? According to the Shadizar Box Set it is centrally located almost due west of Shadizar (Book 1 inside cover). The Tower of the Elephant has it on the Road of Kings south-east of Shadizar.

I keep forgetting that all black people know each other. Maybe they grew up in the same hood.

It seems to me that the people who don't like the books hate them because of "mistakes" for example: Coleman, in the second book, calls Belit an "ebony beauty" on page 261, and again in the third book, on page 236, she is described as "the black pirate queen", which is at variance with Howard...

I understand that you didn't like the books, they weren't what I would call classics, but I've read much worse. What I disagree with is the "established mechanics of sorcery in Hyboria". There is no way that one person could have experienced everything that a world has to offer. There would...

Why does every Conan book that contains more than a hint of magic get a bad review? Just because the character Conan didn't run into magic on a weekly basis doesn't mean that other people and cultures didn't. Some people have the attitude that if if didn't happen to Conan, or more...