MetamorphosisSigma wrote:
Naw, that was a different pervert. Robert Adams... By all acccounts I've heard Jordan (Rigby) was a nice normal sort of chap.

Ah.  Solves a small mystery.  I have the Horseclans novels around here somewhere....

FormCritic wrote:
He could have written two more...I stopped paying attention...

Seems like the two Jordan Conan stories I know about had the word "Skelos" in the titles.  Sword of Skelos?  Scrolls of Skelos?

I recall my impressions as:

"Hmmm.  Seems to have gotten Conan wrong.  Did he read the other stories?"

and

"Oh God.  Most un-Howard!"

(Actually...sort of the same reaction I had to the second Conan movie, Conan the Desecrated.)

(As soon as you saw Grace Jones in the movie trailer...well...it was almost as bad as spotting a Wayans brother in a movie.  They might as well have put "We don't give a crap about anything but fast cash" in the opening credits.  The rest was all downhill.  Might as well have had Jar Jar Binks in the movie!)

Brilliant!  

benjoshua wrote:Whoever invented this game needs to be shot.

http://thedogpaddler.com/RandomUploads/Ball/ball.htm

The ball really will change color if you click on it.

So how long did you play it before you came to that conclusion.

Rabbit_67 wrote:
So how long did you play it before you came to that conclusion.

After I changed the ball color about ten times.  I thought, "I can spend my time better than this."  So, I copied the link so all of you could waste your time!  

Badmike wrote:
Mark;

You are a bit mixed up. Those two books are by Andrew Offutt, who I agree got Conan completely wrong (he semi-rapes a girl in one of the books, totally out of character for the barbarian), and they read like a generic swords and fantasy with "Grolar" as the name of the protagonist replaced by "Conan" so he could make a sale.

The Jordan stories aren't great, but they are miles better than the Offutt crap, and sadly probably some of the best of the non-Howard stuff.

Mike B.

OK - checked into it.  Turns out I have been dissing Offut, not Jordan.

*Irony Alert*

When I thought I was dissing another author over the crap known as Conan the Destroyer, it turns out that Jordan actually did write that one!  

Jordan...Bombatta...rightful ruler of Shadizar...yup...his crap.

Still, my cred as a fantasy literature know-it-all is shipwrecked...but it turns out I still have yet another reason to hate Jordan's work.

Actually...I have read relatively little fantasy literature since the 1980's, when the lesbian wiccans took over the genre.  However...for all I know the lesbian wiccans might be long gone by now.  Something tells me they aren't.  My wife reads a lot of fantasy stuff...and when I pick up one of her books it's still all the same.

And so...having no further concern, I now seek adventure in the West...

Reminds me, I have a shelf-ful of Zane Grey I need to start reading. Not sure why I'm procrastinating. I like western cinema, just never tried the books.

I seem to have run out of decent F and SF, so I might as well read the Grey and L'Amour staring me in the face. And since I really like some of the old Hollywood westerns, I see no reason why I wouldn't like the books, also...

What's wrong with a Canadian governor of Texas?  All cowboy movies and bluster aside, it's a minority/majority state.  Those cowboy politicians from Tx are becoming an anachronism with each new Texas birth.  

A conservative Canadian of Hispanic Decent who can shoot straight and marries a Kennedy can accomplish what the Terminator couldn't.... to become an non naturalized President!

sauromatian wrote:If anything, they like the 10-gallon hats & pointy, ornately tooled boots more than the rest of us.

Very true.

sauromatian wrote:There is not a single statement above which makes any sense, literally or figuratively.

Since when does Pip make any sense?  This comment speaks volumes.

Pipswich wrote:A conservative Canadian of Hispanic Decent who can shoot straight

No such thing exists.  At least not in this timeline.