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title: "El Borak and Other Desert Adventures"
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# El Borak and Other Desert Adventures

**Brand:** robert e. howard
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- **What is this?** El Borak and Other Desert Adventures by robert e. howard
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El Borak and Other Desert Adventures

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## Customer Reviews

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    Lost Cities? Devil worshipping cultists? Fabulous treasures? Read On!
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2021*

I've read these stories probably twice before. The first time was in one of those Ace books, Swords of Shahrazar. Late on, probably in the Bean trade paperback version.Howard's writing can be vastly unlike modern stories. For one, these are short stories. This is more of an anthology than a novel or collection of novels.For another, there are few 'good' or 'evil' characters. Personal motivation, lust, greed, envy, these things carry characters into the paths of one another. For the title character, El-Borak, the Swift, it's often a personal sense of justice, avenging wrongs either to himself or to his friends and allies.The tales provide us with treasure hunters seeking the fabulous wealth of numerous named gems or hoards worthy of a dragon. We also get more than one lost city or civilization that stands outside of time merely awaiting someone worthy enough, driven enough, to find them.The writing might be shocking to more modern audiences. Howard cannot escape his own time in the terminology he uses, so the politically correct should be prepared for that.The nice addition here is the resource on the sources that Howard himself might have used and the ones he's known to have read and referenced. It makes me sigh, though, as I'll probably never get around to reading them myself.The various black and white illustrations in the book do a great job of breathing life into various scenes and characters and make me with that Marvel, or another comic company would give us some comics already.If you're looking for some quick action-based reads, El-Borak is worth your time.

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    Glad that Robert E Howard who died so young is getting the recognition he deserves at last!
  

*by K***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2020*

I love the larger paperbacks w/ larger print from the reissues of Robert E Howard's works which originally appeared in pulp magazines of the 20's and 30's. Howard was very unhappy when his works were called pulp fictions and took his own life at an early age. He was a major loss to the literary community and the world! I loved his desert adventures and he even put Kull and Conan in a few of them as well as many other historical characters both real and imagined into these ribald tales. I am now reading from another book of Howard's all about Red Sonja a far cry from the Brigitte Nielsen warrior maiden in the film w/ Arnie the Guvanator. More like Anne Bonney the pirate captain gal from real life history! I am trying to collect all of the existing works of Howard especially Solomon Kane the Puritan who must be doing penance in Limbo after all the killing he did in his life. The Grand Turk Suleyman is also a real historical figure from the Crusades, albeit the later 16th Century European Crusades. Amazon has done it again. Hooray!

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    Indiana Jones style
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 1, 2015*

A collection of short stories of novelettes as they were known.  The quality of the stories and writing are good.  Probably better than Solomon Kane, and almost as good as the Kull series that he wrote.  Unlike some of Howard's other contemporary characters, he had to create a character who's innate understanding and intuition of other races, tribes, and terrain in order to explain his ability to survive gunfire, which otherwise would be very deadly.  It is true that his other characters had this characteristic as well, but this was more prevalent with El Borak.  His other protagonists seemed to be less invincible and relied more on luck and situation to survive.Even though these stories are labeled as westerns, if you replace guns with spear, bows, and crossbows, and perhaps changed the location and the names of the tribes and period in time, you could easily have a story set in one of Howard's other genre's, such as Conan.  The writing style is very similar.Still, I think, that Howard is at his best when writing the supernatural, which is mostly lacking in these stories.  There is only a hint of such in a few stories so that his best stories are still with Conan and the Kull series, imo.I don't know why, but the story "Three Bladed Doom" was in this book twice.  Once as an untitled fragment in the back of the book, and also nearer the beginning as part of the El Borak series.

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