I Recommend: Kull - Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2024
- Let's take a look at this collection from Ballantine books, a fully illustrated collection of Robert E. Howard's Kull stories.
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Robert E. Howard is my favorite writer. It's nice to see that you're a fan too.
Kull has grown in fascination to me. It has a dreamlike quality, its all lost, but there was a beauty and danger
That volume of KULL has a more traditional layout than you usually see today. Classic proportions, as they evolved during the Renaissance, often aim for a Golden Mean ratio, with narrower inner and upper margins, and wider outer and lower margins. Contemporary books are typeset with minimum page count as the prime driver, so margins have shrunk to maximize the text box. Anyone interested in classical typography should check out "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Bringhurst. I think the 4th edition is the latest.
I love how his writing is timeless, I don’t know how he pulled it off but when I read Robert E Howard it doesn’t seem dated. Edgar Rice Burroughs is another author who writes like this.
I was planning on watching "Conan the destroyer" again this week. I love that movie!
I must have had two or three VHS copies as a kid due to people gifting them to me. Great times in *'An Age Undreamed Of.'* 😁
@@Agonis100 Yeah, it's cool. I love its atmosphere and production design.
This is actually how I was introduced to Howard, through Kull, and with that Del Rey edition. Best way to be introduced to Howard. I actually like Kull more than Conan. Of all the characters that Howard wrote it's Kull that I wish he wrote more stories of. Great video, hope we see more of these, reviewing classic fantasy and S&S.
Omg, I love that art-style. Might get the book just to get a closer look at those illustrations. I gravitate a lot to art that looks kinda raw and unfinished.
Those awkward sentences are Howard's personal mark. It's very artistic. I love that. I need to buy this!
Awesome review ... very interesting! I am a Conan Fan since 1983 ... and lately also a Kull Fan. Howards style of writing is powerful and raw. Thank you for uploading ...
You should really hire an artist to do sketches like that for your books like Muramasa etc.
I love the medium of “mainly text with some references photos for iconic scenes / characters”
Recently got my hands on Kull. Pretty good from what I’m seeing so far.
I can't honestly say Howard is my # 1 all-time, absolute favorite writer (there's a shortlist of writers above him there), but I do think he is the best action writer I've ever read. I recently read "Almurac", which was his pastiche of and homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter stories. I recommend it highly!
Almuric is, indeed, a ton of fun
I'm curious. Who's on your short list above Howard?
@@burritoboy2751 Isaac Asimov, Edmond Hamilton (especially his early "World Wrecker" phase that created the Space Opera sub-genre), Edgar Rice Burroughs, Manly Wade Wellman (particularly for his Silver John stories). And remember that I didn't say the shortlist was of writers better than Howard. It was only a list of my favorites.
@@wtk6069 Interesting list. I like Edmond Hamilton and love both Edgar Rice Burroughs and Manly Wade Wellman. But I never could get into Isaac Asimov.
I've got it, "The Shadow Kingdom", "The Mirrors Of Tuzun Thune", and "The Striking Of The Gong" are my favorite stories.
Great review, it really sold me.
I don't have the Kull book, but I have a few of the others like the Conan book you showed, Horror stories of R.E.H., Solomon Kane, Sword Woman, and The Best of R.E.H. Vol. 1. Highly recommended.
I'm really getting into Robert E. Howard. I've read the Solomon Kane collection and the Bran Mak Morn collection, and now I am starting the Conan collection (all the same publisher as Stewart has).
I can understand why people got offended at Howard's view on race in his books (but censoring his words is ridiculous); however, I feel like the critics don't really understand the modernist view on evolution, the evolutionary ladder. Black people were viewed as inferior because the most significant thing created by sub-Saharan Africans was the mosque at Timbuktu, which was nothing compared to what other races had built or invented. The entire point of the Bran Mak Morn stories is to show "white people" falling down the evolutionary ladder, the exact same ladder he compared every race to.
Taking his "racist" language out of the stories is a total detriment that obscures his original intention. Also, it's funny that his critics never mention that one of his most advanced fictional races were the dark brown skinned Atlanteans.
By strange coincidence, this happens to be the next book I was planning to read. Will probably get to it in late February.
I prefer Kull to Conan TBH. I really dug the kingship angle Kull had, then again my favorite Conan stories are with him as King.
I'd recommend Bran Mak Morn. It's about a Pictish king who struggles with the fact that he is the last pure member of his race, and that his people are devolving into subhumans.
I have of course heard of Kull; but I never read the books. I am a HUGE Conan fan; I have read ALL of the Robert E Howard Conan books/shorts, and even some of the ones by other authors. I will check this out. I really wish Howard had written many more conan stories during his lifetime, and that he hadnt ended that way. He had so much to give.
If he had lived imagine how much he'd be talked about today.
I gained the impression that there was one Spirit that Howard was writing about with his characters that moves through time, from Kull of Atlantis, to Conan of Cimmeria, to Bran Mak Morn of Pictland, to Cormac Mac Art of Scotland(?), to Soloman Kane of England, all descendants of fabled Atlantis.
Fantastic book! I picked it up a number of years ago. Great to see it featured. Going to see Kull The Conqueror in theaters as a kid is a fond memory of mine.
Yeh I love this book too. Totally agree with you regarding the artwork. I hated the pictures in the Conan edition. Almost cartoonlike in places. Certainly not the Conan I picture while reading. My Conan's the Frazetta Conan....as should be everyone's I think. I'd recommend the Bran Mac morn book in this series too.
Great! A Robert e Howard video! I’ve been meaning to read kull.
Hello David. Thanks for the video. I opt for the large margins and blank pages here and there.As a 61 year old man, I usually prefer to write my notes and comments on the margins and blank pages. I will look for this edition. Have a great day!
Margins were no big deal. I did find out this was originally set in a slightly different hardback cut, which makes sense as the 6x9 is a very standard POD size for trade paperback and there probably wasn't any good reason to bother resetting everything for a very slightly bigger book.
Very keen to hear more from REH. I enjoyed the Conan exiles game and wanted to know more about the lore when I played it.
good taste you've got there buddy
Great. ..for Crom. ..😁
Illustrated by Justin Sweet. You might know him from the character portraits of Ice Wind Dale I & II. Fantastic artist, clearly inspired by Frazetta.
Kull's loins were more 'pantherish' than Conan's, if I remember correctly......
David gradually turning into a Witcher
Kull is the only barbarian hero who has to constantly resolve marriage disputes. This is a great collection, By this Axe I rule is probably a must read fantasy story.
Phoenix in the Sword was the second Conan story I think, his first story is Tower of the Elephant
Pheonix on the sword first. Elephant third.
@@abrahemsamander3967 You are correct, must have misread the publication history.
It’s all good, but you’re welcome. Don’t mean to be a know it all. Have a nice day.
@@abrahemsamander3967 np, mate.
Just read this. Thanks mate. Saw you have a UA-cam channel. Looks interesting.
I agree. I've read some Conan and some Kull and to me, Conan is often boring, but Kull is much more interesting, he is way more introspective, brooding, moody and philosophical, which seems paradoxical since it was written before Conan. And its atmosphere is more mythical.
The Solomion Kane book is printed the same way. It's like they didn't want to reformat the small paperback book edition for the oversized paperback print run.
You're correct in your assumption that these books are a repackaging of hardback editions. The Del Rey books are reprints of books published by Wandering Star. The Wandering Star editions were in fact hardcovers with full color plates. You can still buy the originals if you're willing to spend a lot of money but I think Wandering Star folded before the Kull book was released.
Thank you! I knew somebody would know.
It's still a very good paperback. I do recommend it.
No, the Kull book was released. I know this, because I own one. And it was published by Subterranean Press. It was the El Borak or Sword Woman book (or both) that was dropped.
That's interesting. I've never seen a copy.
@@burritoboy2751 www.lwcurrey.com/pages/books/145860/robert-howard/kull-exile-of-atlantis Here's the "cheapest" copy I could find with some nice pictures.
I've read Tarzan and John Carter of mars to my kids, would this be appropriate for kids 9yo and up?
@Potato Power no, he'll love them
My first time to your channel, and clearly two years too late, but I have to ask: any chance that you either play classical guitar or primarily use a fingerpicking style as a guitarist? Just curious.
Loved the discussion and recommendation, by the way; definitely subscribing. Thanks!
I think the margins are considerably better on the Kull book than yours, it seems to me they stuck with the Van de Graaf canon which is based on the Gutenberg Bible proportions. It's still considered one of the most pleasing page layout grids.
Now,there a barbarian warrior I would love to read,there are many story that REH done,if he alive today there would be more Conan and Kull and other sword and sorcery, CROM,be powerful 😠😠😠😠
You were doing so well until you mentioned that Kevin Sorbo movie. LOL
Hard C Cimmerian?
I thought it was soft C Cimmerian.
Figured it was like Celtic - Keltic, not seltic.
Also "Simmarian" sounds like he's from Samaria, not the north.
I came for Krull. This is not that and Im a blind idiot.....