- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Tor Fantasy; First Edition edition (Aug 3 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 076535067X
- ISBN-13: 978-0765350671
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #437,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Nobody alive writes Conan better than Robert Jordan."--L. Sprague de Camp
"There is no one today writing barbarian fantasy novels that can compare with Jordan."--Science Fiction Chronicle
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"There is no one today writing barbarian fantasy novels that can compare with Jordan."--Science Fiction Chronicle
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Robert Jordan, who added to the Conan saga before breaking fresh ground of his own, provided some of the most satisfying adventures since Howard himself….There aren’t many writers who can produce exceptional work within the imagination of another, but Jordan is one of those rarities.”
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing last Conan novel from Jordan,
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This review is from: Conan the Victorious (Mass Market Paperback)
Robert Jordan has written some of the better of the Conans published by Tor, starting with one of my favorites, "Conan the Invincible," which had the feel of a new author bursting with enthusiasm over a favorite character. But "Conan the Victorious," Jordan's seventh Conan novel (counting the novelization of Conan the Destroyer) falls far below his standards. Jordan ceased writing Conan after this novel. Perhaps he had become bored with the series, and if so, the malaise definitely overwhelms him here. Whatever the reason, Jordan's last date with Robert E. Howard's literary child subtly disappoints. It is overstuffed with political intrigue and double-crosses and not enough adventure, magic, or the exotic. This is especially disappointing since it takes place mostly in Vendhya, Howard's fantasy version of India seen in "The People of the Black Circle"; if any locale should feel exotic, it should be this one. It's true that political maneuvering has an important place in many of Robert E. Howard's Conan works as well as his historical adventure stories for Oriental Stories/Magic Carpet, but Jordan lets an avalanche of scheming slow down the pace of the story. (A good comparison would be with Howard's "Hawks over Egypt"which staggers under too much intrigue in too little space, but that was a work Howard didn't sell in his lifetime.) Any short synopsis can't begin to explain the extra characters and subplots that clog up "Conan the Victorious". With so many characters and plots and counterplots, the novel relies heavily on information exchange between characters instead of action and movement. Many of the subplots get a short shrift, and the details fade over the long stretches while the other storylines compete for space. When the pay-offs for some of the subplots come due, they have marginal effect and seem as if the author merely forgot about them until he suddenly needed them for the finale. These problems would become symptomatic of many of the pastiches to come: too much plot, too little development, and a limp finale. In this case, the ending is particularly weak. The demon and the army of the dead are too rapidly disposed of in the quick rush to the last chapter, and the coda fails to patch up the numerous plot holes and story points that Jordan dashed over earlier. Jordan's Conan career started so promisingly in the fast and imaginative "Conan the Invincible," but by this last novel, his party with the Cimmerian had definitely come to a bleary end. Fortunately, the next novel, "Conan the Valorous," introduced author John Maddox Roberts, who would pen some of the better pastiche novels.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Conan tale,
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This review is from: Conan the Victorious (Mass Market Paperback)
Jordan writes Conan well. The slowly dying theme of the warrior is pretty good. The characters are as real as they can be in such a work, but Jordan lacks the unPC attitude of Howard. Who really has it?
4.0 out of 5 stars
An Ok Conan Book,
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This review is from: Conan the Victorious (Mass Market Paperback)
Like I said in my review title this was an ok Conan book. The book for me draged in parts and the ending was rushed. The only reason i gave it 4 stars instead of 3 is that the paperback contains a special bonus called Conan the Indestructible which is a histrory of Conan and his times by L. Sprague De Camp.
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