What is best in life?
Conan, by Robert E. Howard – First created in 1932.
The slavering jaws closed on the arm Conan flung up to guard his throat, but the monster made no effort to secure a death grip. Over his mangled arm it glared fiendishly into the king’s eyes, in which there began to be mirrored a likeness of horror which stared from the dead eyes of Ascalante. Conan felt his soul shrivel and begin to be drawn out of his body, to drown in the yellow wells of cosmic horror which glimmered spectrally in the formless chaos that was growing about him and engulfing all life and sanity. Those eyes grew and became gigantic, and in them the Cimmerian glimpsed the reality of all the abysmal and blasphemous horrors that lurk in the outer darkness of formless voids and nighted gulfs.
893 more pages of this. Yes.
Fuck Yeah Crom!
Steven
5 Jan 11 at 11:04 am
“To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
Love the movie, I should find a copy of this book.
Derek
5 Jan 11 at 6:08 pm
The book is good. Really good.
They’re doing another movie – but haven’t cast Conan yet, the bookies are keen on some herb from Twilight. We’ll see.
O.Two
5 Jan 11 at 6:36 pm
another movie? good news if they cast the right Conan- really, Arnie nailed it in those films.
Steven
6 Jan 11 at 10:05 am
What a nice edition of the book. The German version is a pretty silly looking 3-volume paperback. Anyway, the stories are superb.
I thought they already announced the new actor for Conan? Cannot remeber the name, but judging by the photos he is about a 1/3 of Arnie when he was shape back then.
@Derek: One of my alltime-fave movie quotes. Especially when it is spoken by Arnie and his flawless AustrianEnglish.
Stephan
6 Jan 11 at 1:14 pm