Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian Audiobook By Robert E. Howard, Finn J. D. John cover art

Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian

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Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian

By: Robert E. Howard, Finn J. D. John
Narrated by: Finn J. D. John
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This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author.

A full e-book copy of this book in Interactive PDF format is included and can be downloaded by clicking the "PDF" link in your Audible library (it's in the "Title" column). This PDF includes the audiobook chapter numbers, to make navigation easier.

Excerpt from the introduction:

"When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine in December 1932, nothing quite like it had ever before appeared in print. Author Robert E. Howard had been writing stories broadly similar to it for half a decade; but it was with Conan, and the Hyborian Age storyworld in which he was placed, that Howard finally fully doped out the sub-genre that would become known as "sword and sorcery", of which Howard is today considered the founding father.

"Conan's origins date back to an experiment in 1926 titled "The Shadow Kingdom", featuring the character Kull, exile of Atlantis. The idea - Howard's great innovation - was, at its core, historical fiction set in a pre-historical period. That pre-historical period - being, of course, lost in the mists of time - could contain anything Howard might like to include: evil races of sentient snake-things, sorcerers, undead creatures, demons walking upon the earth, anything.

"In other words, Howard was creating a secular mythology."

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Conan

Greatest collection of fantasy stories ever written by the creator of Sword and Sorcery Robert E Howard

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pillar of fantasy

this is where the roots of fantasy are watered. An epic group of tales that helped make fantasy what it is today.

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Didn't care for narration

Nice collection of the original Robert E. Howard Conan stories. I enjoyed listening to it. Somehow the narrator's voice didn't appeal to me very much. He did a good job but his voice doesn't have a compelling timbre. It also sounded like the voice he used for Conan was a little to heavily influenced by Schwarzenegger. His voice for women sounded cartoonish.

Sorry, narrator. This was a big job and a lot of work, I realize. Good, but not great.

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Fantastic! Give it a read!

I had never read any of the Conan books, though I am familiar with the movies. I never would have imagined they were this good. Now I can not understand why more people do not discuss how wonderful they are. I had been missing out.

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Fine adventure writing, just a few things.

Conan holds up for the most part. Just keep in mind that it's a product of its time where casual racism and female objectivication was normal, even moreso than today. Aside from this, Howard can write an engaging yarn worth a read and for aspiring writers to dissect and analyse.

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amazing stories...

some of the racial/sexist stuff is off-putting, but if you put the stories into historical context, it's understandable. what I found amazing is the story beats from these books that you still see in books and movies today. REH was very prescient in a lot of ways and his influence is very broad.

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Conan is pure fun!

Great stories whose vibrations resonate throughout the popular adventure stories of our current pop culture.

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Can’t stand the narrator

Hate to be that guy but I’ve read/listened to Conan and kull stories and love R.E.H but I just can’t get past this narrator’s voice. His accents for different characters, especially Conan’s, is just terrible. Really killing it for me. No complaints about anything else.

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Awesome omnibus

Conan is a very important foundation of modern fantasy... If you want to educate yourself as to why... Read this...

The prose is awesome, as is the pacing and storytelling... The stories are extremely tropy but superbly done

They are sexist and racist of course... How could they not be as they were written in the 30s... But to be honest... Not nearly as much as i thought they would be

If you are willing to suspend your sensitivity a little there is a great deal to enjoy and learn from in this bundle...

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Great collection

love the stories and the history of Howard given between stories. a must listen for pulp fans

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