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And for him I truly believe that it was his only way to escape the pain that life had become,understand they didn't have the head shirnks back then with the ability and the meds to help a person get through it and get better his death is and was atrue tradgey. Miss Winehouse on the other hand had access to help she didn't want it,so her death was far from a tragdey it was selfish

Good point about the lack of shrinks back then. Who's more tragic? Who's more worthy of sympathy?  Meh - no sense in trying to rate these kind of things. They chose their road (we all do} and that's that. At the end of the day, we're just their fans: consumers of their product.

'Fraid I agree with Tommy Lee on this one.  My reaction to hearing about AW from a co-worker was "oh." Heartless?  Possibly.  But I'm old enough now to no longer be moved by flagrant disregard for one's own life.  Yup, this applies to 'ol Two Gun, too.  I feel great sadness over REH's suicide, but looked at cold and hard, it's entirely a selfish feeling. I'm sad because *I* won't get to read those wonderful stories he denied the world by taking his own life. Same sentiment for Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, etc. ad nauseum.

[grumpy old man]Stupid f**ing kids[/grumpy old man]

I wish that life could be divided into tangible 'credits' so that the remaining decades of those who choose to end their lives (so early and so full of promise), could be given to those who would treasure the extra time.  Children with cancer, perhaps.

Howdy Rob!

So, I am saving up for all the REHF books.

between the Del Rey collection (excluding the "Best Of" volumes) and the REHF Press collection (excluding Last of the Trunk), all of his works will be available.

Does this mean that I will NOT need to buy Last of the Trunk to eventually have a complete set of REH on my shelf? How about the various Bison and/or Wildside Press editions? Will you be printing that matter as well? Or will I need to buy some of those to complete my REH?

Thank you, KG! When I first found that pic, I searched the forums to see if it had a thread, and pulled up nada. One day, I must read the FAX to see how to make the search engine cough up the goods. LOL! Surprising the whole dam face is a prosthetic. Hmmm.

Wow. "Great minds" and all that. When I first read the Conan tales back in the mid '80's, I thought Sonny would make a great Conan, even though he looked more Native American than Celtic.

Many years later, after seeing "Pitch Black" (STILL the most Howard-like film I've seen), I thought Vin Diesel might pull it off if he could shed the accent. Kinda dislike him now, though.

I won't pass final judgement on Jason Mamoa 'til I've seen the new film, but so far, he isn't selling me on Conan any more than Hayden Christensen sold me on Darth Vader. I hope to be proven wrong. I really do.


But for my money, THIS guy is perfect!


Yes, Frazetta fans, this IS a photograph. Apparently this was from a make-up test for Warner Bros. some time back. No idea if this guy can act, but dayum if that isn't the bloke I see while reading.