I figured out a long time ago that I like to read trash.
I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way. Sure, I've read my share of literary heavyweights. I've been through the assigned readings of a Chaucer or a Shakespeare course at college. I have experienced the more erudite end of the literary spectrum. But at the end of the day, I like my reading sessions to be less heady and more escapism and genre fiction is more often than not my go-to for that. I like pulps. Fantasy and sci-fi. Over the top spy stories. Gritty crime fiction. Trashy quasi-smut set in women's prisons..... wait, what?
I even have this bizarre soft spot for tie-in novels. I can't entirely articulate it, but I often find great humor in their mere existence sometimes. For instance, why did the world need a series of Welcome Back, Kotter novels? Fuck knows. But I'm eternally curious to see how terrible they are now.
So this little project of mine is simply going to be a repository of book reviews from my oversized personal library of what I lovingly refer to as 'trash'. Everything from the golden age of pulps to the might of the current Iron Age is up for grabs here. My only prerequisite is the book should contain an adventure of some variety... hence the Conan the Barbarian pastiche name of this project. Leave a comment on one of my reviews and send me suggestions on what to read next or tell me how awful my taste is. I don't mind either way. Let's have some fun on this journey.
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