Due to recent injury I've had to slow down for the first time in 20 years. These readings have been a great escape while going through this. Well done, I appreciate the effort. Ty
As a Conan fan for the past 50 years, I can't compliment you enough about the work you're doing here. Sterling narration and sound engineering, beautiful artwork. So nice to see Howard's hero given the treatment the material deserves Thank you.
I loved this reading. It's the first of these short stories that I had heard, thinking previously what I had been taught as a teen, that this was mindless garbage. But, my parents were wrong. These are fun adventures!
Fortunately, my highly literate parents had no idea we were consuming these books like candy until one day in about the 9th grade I cheekily told my mom about a Conan adventure I was reading. She went into her stash (didn't know she had one) and introduced me to Ian Fleming's 007, and my dad mentioned after dinner his father was an avid Louis L'Amour fan and read an entire western every night before bed. After that, they flooded me with whatever I wanted to read. I don't think they ever got my interest in reading National Lampoon the way I did but...
No doubt it was considered mindless garbage at the time, but do to the lack of talent in today's media, this is now considered Shakespearean, in its quality.
Appreciate all the feedback. We're a small production and still learning to be efficient with editing while keeping to our weekly deadline. Hope you'll stick around while we improve :)
Thank you for the attention. I picked your channel from among sundry tried. Most of my comments pertain to the writing and not the speaking. Amount of comments does help your rating with RUclips. I might have misremembered where I heard "nitch". Magpie Audiao is the togo for Holmes,. btw, in case you may not be familiar. @@audiobooky
This is well done. Thanks! I find occasional alternative pronunciations add a touch of the exotic to Conan stories, which Howard obviously strove for. And I'm especially happy that you're faithful to the original text, even when it uses intransitive verb forms where the transitive is more common now, causing consternation to some. And I recall that the original text was written in the 1930s, and languages evolve. Plus, regional usages/dialects, though far more evident in Britain, have long been present in the U.S. as well.
To those that said "glid" that's the past tense , glid-ed/ing is the present tense . I'll grant I was listening at work , but didn't hear to much that was off .
Thank you for your well meaning. the extreme what? If you thought that you answered the question, you didn't. I already knew what "utmost" means. It is an adjective or adverb, in this case an adjective word. What is the noun, that is my question. @@weediestbroom
@@SkeeterHowitzerWeird question. “To the utmost” is quite a standard phrase in English. It means, approximately, “to the greatest degree possible.” The dictionaries I consulted list utmost as both adjective and noun, so there’s no grammatical problem in the phrase you object to.
Use of an adjective word as a noun without modifyin it isn't standard. Give no heed to the errors of the masses. Remember, if you regard yourself as a member of "the crowd", then you are no good, and are the foe. Purge your life and your mind of all associations and influences arisin from anyone below 145 on the Wechsler-Bellvue scale. @@yohei72
@@NoWheyHombre Whoever first said "glided" in place of "glid" was wrong. Whoever follows afterward is wrong, even if it is 7 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, and 999 against one -- the one is right and the others are wrong, and I used to like YooHoo when it was made with whey but no longer.
No object is required for this sentence. "It toppled over" ≈ "It fell over" ≈ "It tumbled to the floor". Prepositions - esp. when forming verb phrases that have standardized but not intuitively obvious meanings† - are one of the things that make English tricky. The "Rob Words" channel just released a ~10-minute video "10 worst things about English" (roughly) that you might enjoy. † _update: to clarify, that's_ *not* _what's happening here; it's simply the ample flexibility of "over" (or "on over"), which is being used here as an adverb ... another complication._
You have never been taught how to identify transitive versus intransitive verbs. Don't go by what you hear around you. "Topple" is a transitive verb. A million, ten million people fail to know that? Then a million or ten million people are wrong. The masses are ALWAYS wrong. Listen only to the best folks, the one out of a hundred thousand. @@larrywest42
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This story, was one of the one's,, that have made our beloved Robert E Howard, immortal.
Audiobooky did it justice.
Thank you!
the long dark lashes WERE lifted
Adding were is unnecessary and redundant. You are not smart enough to try editing. Maybe just shut up.
love the audiobooks! loathe the ai art. really.
you'll befool them easily.
the breath WAS sucked thrugh his teeth.
An ant would have crushed him? 1:09:30
"bestial" not "beastial".
Due to recent injury I've had to slow down for the first time in 20 years. These readings have been a great escape while going through this. Well done, I appreciate the effort. Ty
Thank you and may Crom speed your recovery!
@@audiobooky Crom would laugh at my weakness and cast my body to a herd of swine. 😆
@@rorrym831 lol
Hahahaha. Well then try Wr-Alda, The Oldest One. Become better soon.
@@rorrym831
❤️
As a Conan fan for the past 50 years, I can't compliment you enough about the work you're doing here. Sterling narration and sound engineering, beautiful artwork. So nice to see Howard's hero given the treatment the material deserves
Thank you.
This is a passion for us, thank you for listening and the kind words!
I loved this reading. It's the first of these short stories that I had heard, thinking previously what I had been taught as a teen, that this was mindless garbage. But, my parents were wrong. These are fun adventures!
Fortunately, my highly literate parents had no idea we were consuming these books like candy until one day in about the 9th grade I cheekily told my mom about a Conan adventure I was reading. She went into her stash (didn't know she had one) and introduced me to Ian Fleming's 007, and my dad mentioned after dinner his father was an avid Louis L'Amour fan and read an entire western every night before bed. After that, they flooded me with whatever I wanted to read. I don't think they ever got my interest in reading National Lampoon the way I did but...
No doubt it was considered mindless garbage at the time, but do to the lack of talent in today's media, this is now considered Shakespearean, in its quality.
"Glid" is a word. Heard in various English Irish and Scottish dialects. My woman uses this word.
"My woman"......awesome
It's the past tense of glide.
@@justmyopinion7269 well it is a Conan story
Great stories but I didn't know this was An english class...
Damn good. Well done.
I set the speed to .75.
Good call thanks =)
Here you rightly spoke "niche", elswhere you said "nitch", as I noted in comment. 24:09
Maybe it wasn't you, but some other's videograph.
Appreciate all the feedback. We're a small production and still learning to be efficient with editing while keeping to our weekly deadline. Hope you'll stick around while we improve :)
Thank you for the attention. I picked your channel from among sundry tried. Most of my comments pertain to the writing and not the speaking. Amount of comments does help your rating with RUclips. I might have misremembered where I heard "nitch". Magpie Audiao is the togo for Holmes,. btw, in case you may not be familiar.
@@audiobooky
Outstanding reading!! Thank you!!
Loving these, thank you.
That was a real treat. Thank you
Conan glid deeper in the thicket
Glid. To move smoothly or gracefully. The past tense of glide. Tell me you're ignorant without telling me you're ignorant. Oops, too late.
What an imagination. Howard wrote "glided".
@@mr.dragoncrypto4138
glid through the dense growth
This is well done. Thanks!
I find occasional alternative pronunciations add a touch of the exotic to Conan stories, which Howard obviously strove for.
And I'm especially happy that you're faithful to the original text, even when it uses intransitive verb forms where the transitive is more common now, causing consternation to some.
And I recall that the original text was written in the 1930s, and languages evolve.
Plus, regional usages/dialects, though far more evident in Britain, have long been present in the U.S. as well.
that glare lit a gallery.
Over 5 comments, maybe just shut up.
Shut what, exactly. A door? A lid? Shut what?
@@mr.dragoncrypto4138
I think you made some really good choices. They go a long way to smoothing things out
Such great novels! Rip James Earl Jones from the mo ie😢
53:48 is that AI or hand-painted? If hand-painted, then it was right much work for that painter.
the furtive padding of a foot.
Thankyu sir 😊 great FUN 🤩
By Crom! Tis be a fine offering to the gods!
Thanks!
😊👍
Great , thankyou
The art on this thumbnail ♥
probably carven with the skill of a forgotten art
Anyone else having a problem with the first couple of words in each sentence going silent?
To those that said "glid" that's the past tense , glid-ed/ing is the present tense . I'll grant I was listening at work , but didn't hear to much that was off .
the passing of a very long spreading of time.
did you think that you could befool me?
Niche, not nitch. Learn France talk.
her slender arm WAS lifted, or lifted itself. either passive voice or else direct object required.
Alas I'm unable to cope with the narration 😢
🥲
no sound nor movement was down the tunnel
Nice pictures.
glid from the niche.
and carven with many rich arabesques.
The chamber was much better lit.
it was a climbing to test these qualities to the utmost [the utmost what?]
It means 'to the extreme'
Thank you for your well meaning.
the extreme what? If you thought that you answered the question, you didn't. I already knew what "utmost" means. It is an adjective or adverb, in this case an adjective word. What is the noun, that is my question.
@@weediestbroom
@@SkeeterHowitzerWeird question. “To the utmost” is quite a standard phrase in English. It means, approximately, “to the greatest degree possible.” The dictionaries I consulted list utmost as both adjective and noun, so there’s no grammatical problem in the phrase you object to.
Use of an adjective word as a noun without modifyin it isn't standard. Give no heed to the errors of the masses.
Remember, if you regard yourself as a member of "the crowd", then you are no good, and are the foe.
Purge your life and your mind of all associations and influences arisin from anyone below 145 on the Wechsler-Bellvue scale.
@@yohei72
a gigantic head was carven.
her face sunken in her arms.
The past participle is sunk, sunken is only an adjective, ie. a sunken ship.
Only among intruders and intrudresses. Not among the best folks.
@@weediestbroom
@@MoivinSulunker The Online Etymology Dictionary traces that usage to the 14th century.
Thank you.
usage yes, form is not traced.@@GreeneyedApe
@@MoivinSulunker What exactly is your complaint? Spelling? Middle English had "sunken" and Old English had "suncen."
had proven to be realities.
he glid into the tunnel.
could be glided
@@NoWheyHombre Whoever first said "glided" in place of "glid" was wrong. Whoever follows afterward is wrong, even if it is 7 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, and 999 against one -- the one is right and the others are wrong, and I used to like YooHoo when it was made with whey but no longer.
@@MoivinSulunker oh got it. language has never changed
he glid around the curve of the court.
I have the book. Got it a very long time ago in some random used bookshop. 🍻
The teeth (the teeth)
The teeth (the teeth)
Of Gwahlur
& U better believe it!
Greek "Kimmeroi" therefore hard "c" in "Cimmerian".
the chest toppled on over. Over what?
No object is required for this sentence.
"It toppled over" ≈ "It fell over" ≈ "It tumbled to the floor".
Prepositions - esp. when forming verb phrases that have standardized but not intuitively obvious meanings† - are one of the things that make English tricky.
The "Rob Words" channel just released a ~10-minute video "10 worst things about English" (roughly) that you might enjoy.
† _update: to clarify, that's_ *not* _what's happening here; it's simply the ample flexibility of "over" (or "on over"), which is being used here as an adverb ... another complication._
You have never been taught how to identify transitive versus intransitive verbs. Don't go by what you hear around you. "Topple" is a transitive verb.
A million, ten million people fail to know that? Then a million or ten million people are wrong.
The masses are ALWAYS wrong.
Listen only to the best folks, the one out of a hundred thousand.
@@larrywest42
the cliffs that encircled the valley.
"Then he drew his forces off, encircling the last remnant of the Men in a wide ring of archers." - J.R.R. Tolkein, The Return of the King.
Thank you.
offward.@@GreeneyedApe
Superb
Good, and enjoyable.
Glad you think so!