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Pros
Solomon kane is an englishmen equipped with sword and flintlock *. First appearing in 1928, there were nine short stories, three poems and four fragments written by howard about the dour-faced puritan avenger.
The protagonist is beset with demons and the undead.
Robert e. Howard is the led zeppelin of epic fantasy. The return of sir richard grenville is one of his best-known works.
The savage tales of solomon kane is my fifth of del rey’s eleven collected volumes of robert e. Kane. The kane stories give us a wide range of genre styles. They provide all of that in a complete, spine tingling package. For more information on the sa... Read More
Cons
The savage tales of solomon kane is overtly racist. The moon of skulls is the so viciously racist throughout it's almost unreadable. The book ends with transparent white supremacist * about the near divine white race. This type of sociopath sounds lik... Read More
Highlights
Quality
The stories were tight and well written, isolated adventures as with the cimmerian tales.
These stories were great and engaging and i have a hard time reconciling some of the lower reviews with the stories i actually read.
Disappointed with the condition of delivery but that's on amazon not the product.
Howard del rey books is sorely lacking in quality.
Competitiveness
If you like the old school adventure writers this is a no-brainer.
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- This product had a total of 800 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 20 2023.
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Compared to them kane is more straightforward and less about being a magic detective
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If it annoys you that these were never finished then i suggest to you that you write adventure stories of your own
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But the ones i havent read were unique adventures
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Solomon kane is a complex driven fanatical hero who makes no provision for the flesh
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Old style of writing but rather good if you expect such work
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There was a problem getting the cds to play and it required the download of another reader
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Some of the stories in this book were never finished by howard and they are left as is by the publisher as unfinished
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I can only wonder in what way howard would have ended those couple stories had he finished them
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