by Robert E. HowardEdition: Hardcover
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Excellent Compilation, But What's With Skimping On The Glue Del Rey?, March 31, 2007
I was planning to thumb through these books for all eternity, and I know I paid a cheap price for the nice looking, thick books. But one came apart after just two reads- my brother and I both read the first one I got. Conquering sword is also beginning to come apart and I've only read it once and thumbed back through it a time or two. I mean come on, redo it and let me trade this one back in. I'll even pay shipping. I mean, you can swat flies with my self-published children's book, use it as a dust-pan and fan yourself at little league baseball games with it and it STILL won't come apart. A big ol' company like Del Rey should be able to do better. I regret that I'm forced to drop it down a star, but I assure you it's Del Rey's fault and not the author's. J. Lyon Layden [[ASIN:1601451229 The Other Side of Yore]]" name=review> I have all three in this series, and after having to sift through so much Robert Jordon, L. Sprague D. Camp, and other fanfiction writers and being dissatisfied with previous compilation editions that tried to edit Howard into chronological order, I am glad to now have an original Robert E. Howard compilation in the order that the stories were written. The caliber of the work contained inside these books is jaw-dropping. Not only was howard incredibly imaginative and skilled impressively in submersing the reader's attention, but he also seems to have had an uncanny knowledge of certain things about man's prehistoric past that we are only discovering now to be true in the realm of archeology and science. The only problem with this series is that Del Rey skimped big-time on the glue. I was planning to thumb through these books for all eternity, and I know I paid a cheap price for the nice looking, thick books. But one came apart after just two reads- my brother and I both read the first one I got. Conquering sword is also beginning to come apart and I've only read it once and thumbed back through it a time or two. I mean come on, redo it and let me trade this one back in. I'll even pay shipping. I mean, you can swat flies with my self-published children's book, use it as a dust-pan and fan yourself at little league baseball games with it and it STILL won't come apart. A big ol' company like Del Rey should be able to do better. I regret that I'm forced to drop it down a star, but I assure you it's Del Rey's fault and not the author's. J. Lyon Layden The Other Side of Yore
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