Hi Prime. .. At a stretch Black River's not bad. But for sheer growing adventure Red Nails is Howards best: By way of plot, surpassing descriptive appeal from the first sentence, winning gradual climactic buildup, varied characterisation, treachery, madness, sex or temptation therefore, ancient feudal conclusion, spook appeal, echoes of weird. Do check it out. If you don't like it you won't have to buy me that drink when we meet. 😊👍📖🤝😀
"The heads of 10 Picts shall pay for his and 7 for the dog." I read this story 25 years ago and that line always stuck with me. Seems to encapsulate Conan's stripped-down, no frills barbarian warrior code.
Onion, it Doesn't seem possible but I read this red tale well over half a century ago. Book cover by Frank Frazetta. By Cromer the time must have been stolen from my by an evil sorcerer. I'll eat his liver
Ima sculptor and have bein listening to this while sculpting my own fantasy figure line ..you are amazing at this!! The character voices! You do a great Conan and you even sounded like mako from the Conan movies at one point !!, I look forward to listening to a lot more while working !
An absolute masterpiece! Great voice acting, narration, and sound effects. It's a crime you don't have a much bigger audience. I have a paperback collection of Conan stories I bought last year but haven't read a page of it cause I'd rather listen to your work which brings them to tremendous life!
Although in the story Balthous has a long inner monologue about how distant Conan is, and how he is not interested in the small comforts and beauties in life, I think this is the first time we see Conan really caring about other people. Of course in other stories he cared for the women in distress or his actual partner in crime (like Murillo) or the men serving under him. But here the settlers are the people he has always considered civilized weaklings, unable to defend themselves. Yet he chose to stay and save as many of them as he could, instead of calling it a day and leaving them to their fate. Although the story ends with its famous bleak message of barbarism's ultimate triumph, I think it's also implied through Conan that some time spent in cvilization can also shape people for the better.
I think he admires these people a little, or at least has less disdain for them as opposed to city folk, because these are frontier people hacking a life out of the wilderness.
I’m going to be frank, I loved everything about this reading except for the voice you used for Balthus. He sounded older than Conan. Apart from that, however, you did an excellent job. 9.9/10.
I agree! I’ve listen to all your Conan yarns so far and they are by far the best readings on UA-cam, but the voice you’ve chosen for Balthus sound like an elderly person of east Asia with halting English as a second language.
i guess maybe 98 percent of the dialogue is between conan and balthus so is important to have a good contrast. i don't really want to argue but fundamentally this is a story about two guys meeting and interacting under a crisis. thus the contrast between the 2 main characters is key.
Please do! If you want a download that you can use when out (driving, walking the dog, down the gyn) we have a complete and unabridged dramatised audio version available from us on Amazon (also available in ebook or paperback)... amzn.to/2UvkzdI Audible free trail available through us here... tinyurl.com/2xhay3u [Please use our affiliate links, it helps support the channel]
@@TheCybrarian I'm teleworking so I bookmarked the entire site since I'm linked to the internet while in the apartment. Loved the dramatization and the photos.
I was looking at an old map of the world in Conan's time with a current map of Europe etc superimposed on top of it. I'm from Yorkshire and I never that it was originally part of Cimmeria. (Though if you've ever been in Leeds on a Saturday night it's not that surprising.)
I think one of the reasons this story stands out as a favorite of so many is that we have the point of view of someone other than Conan. The iconic barbarian is a larger than life figure, and Balthus is a much more personable and relatable character. As much as I love tales of Conan's exploits, I think I prefer to be a step removed from them.
Think it was going for slightly younger, like the Subotai character, but maybe had been watching too much Avatar recently... ua-cam.com/video/sMdPteXSeew/v-deo.html
Dear God bro, this is great, I mean great narration. This is better than Mr. Creeps, Chilling Tales for Dark 🌑🕶️ Nights, Dr. Creepen, only person on the level of my Conan narrator here is Dr. No Sleep 💤😴. This person is a master story teller he's on the level of Drew Blood or Paul J. Mcsorley and he's way better than Otis Jiri. Now, if anyone who sees this is unfamiliar with any of those people, type them in UA-cam, you'll be in for an experience on the level of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (kudos and a big shout out to anyone who is familiar with any of the people I just named, I'm 38 years old and I had to do true research to discover these people, I listed them here to make things easily awesome 👍😎 for you who sees this. Experience the experience)
As much as I enjoyed this - and your work in general - I cannot help but feel that you made a misstep with the voice-work for Balthus. All the other Aquilonians have accents that suggest the British isles, if not England herself. Yet Balthus, despite being an Aquilonian, speaks with a wholly different accent. Which makes him seem like an outsider.
Completely understand your point of view, but we felt since the Tauran is a wilder frontier area of Aquilonia often being settled by immigrants or refugees, and the fact that Balthus is a sort of author-insurgent character with his memories being from Robert E. Howards own life, we thought he should stand out. So we went with the voice of a plains archer like Subotai from the film.
I have to disagree with you here. Balthus is written in this story to be a man from the eastern edge of the Aquilonian empire of a culture based loosely on Turkic/central asian horse nomad cultures, one that was a settled tributary state of Aquilonia. Balthus traveled from the eastern edge of the empire to the farthest western frontier. His accent in this reflects that. The Aquilonian empire encompassed a lot of different cultures at its height
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THIS is the Conan story that SHOULD have been made a movie.
agreed
Howard's best story in my humble opinion, done exceptionally well.
i like "red nails " a lot but tbh not entirely sure that is his prose.
Hi Prime. .. At a stretch Black River's not bad. But for sheer growing adventure Red Nails is Howards best: By way of plot, surpassing descriptive appeal from the first sentence, winning gradual climactic buildup, varied characterisation, treachery, madness, sex or temptation therefore, ancient feudal conclusion, spook appeal, echoes of weird. Do check it out. If you don't like it you won't have to buy me that drink when we meet.
😊👍📖🤝😀
"The heads of 10 Picts shall pay for his and 7 for the dog."
I read this story 25 years ago and that line always stuck with me. Seems to encapsulate Conan's stripped-down, no frills barbarian warrior code.
Its the way things should be, that's why it rings true and sticks with everyone
Onion, it Doesn't seem possible but I read this red tale well over half a century ago. Book cover by Frank Frazetta. By Cromer the time must have been stolen from my by an evil sorcerer. I'll eat his liver
“Be ready; now is the beginning of happenings.”
I've been waiting over twenty years for this. Much appreciated.
My favourite Conan story, a brilliant reading.
I just listened to this recently while driving through the night through the back road woods in northern Michigan and it fit the atmosphere perfectly.
So far the best Conan audiobook I’ve heard. Thanks cybrarian and thank you Robert E Howard
Ima sculptor and have bein listening to this while sculpting my own fantasy figure line ..you are amazing at this!! The character voices! You do a great Conan and you even sounded like mako from the Conan movies at one point !!, I look forward to listening to a lot more while working !
glad you enjoy. feel free to share a link of your work here. :)
He sounds just like Mako! That's who I picture when I listen to this story.
Cybrarian, you have a new fan. Your narrations of Conan are well done. Thank you.
Always listening to your readings when cooking
with appropriate chopping sounds :)
Very well done. Thank you for your hard work, it shows.
An absolute masterpiece! Great voice acting, narration, and sound effects. It's a crime you don't have a much bigger audience.
I have a paperback collection of Conan stories I bought last year but haven't read a page of it cause I'd rather listen to your work which brings them to tremendous life!
Fantastic! Thank you for this wonderful rendition.
This is my favorite of your Conan books. You do an excellent job.
Excellent story and narration
Another absolutely magnificent rendition. Thank you.
In our effort to improve our work we have already remastered this yarn, the new one can be found here...
ua-cam.com/video/EPigNrHOvRI/v-deo.html
That was fantastic!
Once again, I weep at the fate of Balthus and Slasher.
This was an awesome read! Thank you sir! Fantastic production through and through. New favorite channel!!!
Really well done!!! Thank you so much!
Great voice for the devil! Emotionless but frightening.
Thank you, thats part performance and part audio mixing, we're glad you liked it.
Great reading. Took me back to times long ago. Thank you.
Although in the story Balthous has a long inner monologue about how distant Conan is, and how he is not interested in the small comforts and beauties in life, I think this is the first time we see Conan really caring about other people. Of course in other stories he cared for the women in distress or his actual partner in crime (like Murillo) or the men serving under him. But here the settlers are the people he has always considered civilized weaklings, unable to defend themselves. Yet he chose to stay and save as many of them as he could, instead of calling it a day and leaving them to their fate. Although the story ends with its famous bleak message of barbarism's ultimate triumph, I think it's also implied through Conan that some time spent in cvilization can also shape people for the better.
I think he admires these people a little, or at least has less disdain for them as opposed to city folk, because these are frontier people hacking a life out of the wilderness.
Another great reading! Thank you!
love the balthus voice, well done sir.
This was seriously so well done. I appreciate the work you did.
Excellent work, my good sir!
I’m going to be frank, I loved everything about this reading except for the voice you used for Balthus. He sounded older than Conan. Apart from that, however, you did an excellent job. 9.9/10.
I agree! I’ve listen to all your Conan yarns so far and they are by far the best readings on UA-cam, but the voice you’ve chosen for Balthus sound like an elderly person of east Asia with halting English as a second language.
@@dustinmccune8732 Yeah it seemed to me he was supposed to be a sort of young hunter type
Reminds me of Mako Iwamatsu, who played Akiro the wizard in the First Conan movie. 😁 Definitely not the voice of a fresh-faced young man...
i like the voice he gave to balthus , struck me as a bit strange as first but is good contrast to the conan voice.
i guess maybe 98 percent of the dialogue is between conan and balthus so is important to have a good contrast. i don't really want to argue but fundamentally this is a story about two guys meeting and interacting under a crisis. thus the contrast between the 2 main characters is key.
I'm bookmarking this. I have audio book of this story but not with the sound effects. That's a seller for me. 😊
Please do! If you want a download that you can use when out (driving, walking the dog, down the gyn) we have a complete and unabridged dramatised audio version available from us on Amazon (also available in ebook or paperback)... amzn.to/2UvkzdI
Audible free trail available through us here... tinyurl.com/2xhay3u
[Please use our affiliate links, it helps support the channel]
@@TheCybrarian I'm teleworking so I bookmarked the entire site since I'm linked to the internet while in the apartment. Loved the dramatization and the photos.
Conan's voice in narration is decent but this makes Balthus sound like Mako as "Akiro The Wizard" in the Schwarzenegger movies...
yeah, voice actor was aiming for Subotai or something like it, but gruff old voice made it come out a bit too old
Robert E. Howard forever
great work please more conan
I was looking at an old map of the world in Conan's time with a current map of Europe etc superimposed on top of it. I'm from Yorkshire and I never that it was originally part of Cimmeria. (Though if you've ever been in Leeds on a Saturday night it's not that surprising.)
we have a vid with maps and history if you want to check any more comparisons...
ua-cam.com/video/9G86WohAd_4/v-deo.html
`EE BY CROM!!!`. lol.
Your Conan voice reminds me, in vibe, of Wolverine from the old 90s Xmen Cartoon and I dig it.
haha, you're not the first to comment that, thank you
Superb.
I think one of the reasons this story stands out as a favorite of so many is that we have the point of view of someone other than Conan. The iconic barbarian is a larger than life figure, and Balthus is a much more personable and relatable character. As much as I love tales of Conan's exploits, I think I prefer to be a step removed from them.
Yes, Howard puts a lot of himself into the character of Balthus eg.rememberinghis fathers dogs etc.
Fantastic.
Very cool!
I like how Balthus sounds like Mako Iwamatsu
Think it was going for slightly younger, like the Subotai character, but maybe had been watching too much Avatar recently...
ua-cam.com/video/sMdPteXSeew/v-deo.html
Good shit.
Dear God bro, this is great, I mean great narration. This is better than Mr. Creeps, Chilling Tales for Dark 🌑🕶️ Nights, Dr. Creepen, only person on the level of my Conan narrator here is Dr. No Sleep 💤😴. This person is a master story teller he's on the level of Drew Blood or Paul J. Mcsorley and he's way better than Otis Jiri. Now, if anyone who sees this is unfamiliar with any of those people, type them in UA-cam, you'll be in for an experience on the level of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (kudos and a big shout out to anyone who is familiar with any of the people I just named, I'm 38 years old and I had to do true research to discover these people, I listed them here to make things easily awesome 👍😎 for you who sees this. Experience the experience)
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As much as I enjoyed this - and your work in general - I cannot help but feel that you made a misstep with the voice-work for Balthus. All the other Aquilonians have accents that suggest the British isles, if not England herself. Yet Balthus, despite being an Aquilonian, speaks with a wholly different accent. Which makes him seem like an outsider.
Completely understand your point of view, but we felt since the Tauran is a wilder frontier area of Aquilonia often being settled by immigrants or refugees, and the fact that Balthus is a sort of author-insurgent character with his memories being from Robert E. Howards own life, we thought he should stand out. So we went with the voice of a plains archer like Subotai from the film.
I have to disagree with you here. Balthus is written in this story to be a man from the eastern edge of the Aquilonian empire of a culture based loosely on Turkic/central asian horse nomad cultures, one that was a settled tributary state of Aquilonia. Balthus traveled from the eastern edge of the empire to the farthest western frontier. His accent in this reflects that. The Aquilonian empire encompassed a lot of different cultures at its height
@@spaghettitime3263 Well, that'll teach me to be careful when expounding upon topics I am not strong in. Thank you for the broadening my knowledge.
By CROM
2:05:00
Very minor blimp. Balthus don't quite sound like the youth he's supposed to be.
But as I said, it's minor. A great dramatized as usual.
Love the voice acting but I couldn't continue listening to the folly ; just too annoying to ignore.
we can do a version without the foley if people would want it?