From: Paul Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:06 AM
Subject: RE: [rehfans] Thud and Blunder revisited
> [Paul Herman] Well now, I can still remember the first time I tried
> to read Valley of the Worm. I gave up after the fourth page of sweeping
> historical background about where Niord came from. That was a big sidebar
> to an otherwise good story. There are some other REH stories that suffer
> that same problem, to me. What was it, Men of the Shadows, where more
than
> half the story is telling the background of the Picts in a dream sequence?
The sweeping story of the trek to new lands I found very much a part of this
story Part of his drifting peoples concept. For whatever reason I never
found REH boring in this story whereas I was never able to get through
Tolkien LOTR. Howard wasn't always perfect but if the number of times this
story has been reprinted is any gauge then the editors did not have a
problem with it. I don't recall the other tale but perhaps the background
and dream sequence was the story.
Scotty
