Is Conan the Barbarian Actually Good?
A Cimmerian strides through my brain between my retina and my frontal lobe, boasting “I live, I love, I slay, and am content!” This is not good literature. &, yet, somehow… it is. Why Conan the Barbarian haunts us readers: what makes a pulp hero immortal is not the author’s prose—it’s the readers, who spin the gold of the Shadow Canon from straw…
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2025-08-25 Mo
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