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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I find short story collections some of the hardest books to read. It's hard to get into a rhythm, and the impetuous to continue on is not there. This book was no exception. Solomon Kane is a fantastical man who sees only right and wrong and goes around the world defeating evil. I found the stories to be rather gothic in emotion and style, and I really had a hard time caring what happened next to this character. Overblown, dramatic, and boring. Not a good combination. (  )carmelitasita29 | May 28, 2009 |   jmgold | Sep 27, 2008 | Stellar pulp adventure with some great thought and nuance in its setup. A Puritan warrior wanders the world in pursuit of...ANYONE evil and the innocents he can rescue who still live. Kane is a fascinating character, with a godly manner and conscience, but a sinister and dark connection to the jungles where he meets the evil medicine men and black savages ... and Lovecraftian cults. The stories' treatment of Africans is politically incorrect, but goodness is found among them. Africa and the jungles are just presented as a dark, evil places where dark, evil things can flourish. Backwards thinking, but a wonderful world of imagination. (  )Wattsian | Aug 10, 2008 | Pen and ink illustrations by Gary Gianni on almost every page. (  )glimbit | Apr 6, 2008 | Solomon Kane is an excellent anti-hero, willing to do anything to combat the forces of darkness. He travels the land encountering various injustices and supernatural events. In many of the tales he acts mostly as an observer. ( )Meren | Mar 7, 2008 | 0.052 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345461509, Paperback)With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century—he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn’t the first archetypaladventurer to spring from Howard’s fertile imagination. “He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.” Collected in this volume, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, are all of the stories and poems that make up the thrilling saga of the dour and deadly Puritan, Solomon Kane. Together they constitute a sprawling epic of weird fantasy adventure that stretches from sixteenth-century England to remote African jungles where no white man has set foot. Here are shudder-inducing tales of vengeful ghosts and bloodthirsty demons, of dark sorceries wielded by evil men and women, all opposed by a grim avenger armed with a fanatic’s faith and a warrior’s savage heart. This edition also features exclusive story fragments, a biography of Howard by scholar Rusty Burke, and “In Memoriam,” H. P. Lovecraft’s moving tribute to his friend and fellow literary genius. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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