Interesting point, Gary. I really have no problem with that. Look at the
list of authors you gave us...does anyone really mind having Howard in such
distinguished company? Considering how popular the Potter books are (and
make no mistake, they are CLASSIC boy's adventure fiction, just slightly
more British), I think that would be the way to go with his material.
Mark Finn
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary A Romeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: [rehfans] Howard as boy's fiction
> We've discussed this before but I don't think any conclusion was reached.
>
> I discovered REH via the Conan comic at about 13 years old. Really dug
> his work; made me want to write; yadda yadda.
>
> I was looking in the bookstore once again in the children's section.
> They have a good selection of adventure fiction there. Jack London,
> Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Pyle, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, and
> Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes. All great stuff. The Wandering Star
> illustrated books are obvisiously patterened off the Scribner's Classic
> series. STOSK is a dead ringer for the Treasure Island book.
>
> I figure Wandering Star's plan is to market their illustrated books to a
> publisher interested in Scribner's type stuff. The new publisher mass
> produces the illustrated books in a reasonably priced format and sells it
> side by side with Treasure Island, etc. Fine plan I think.
>
> But I kinda wonder how REH fans feel about Howard being defined as boy's
> fiction. I think it is a step up from the ghetto known as sword &
> sorcery.
>
>
>
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