Manning Lee Stokes (1911–1976)
Autore di The Bronze Axe
Sull'Autore
Opere di Manning Lee Stokes
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1911-06-21
- Data di morte
- 1976-01-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
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Recensioni
The fourth installment in the Richard Blade series. The writers shift gear considerably in this volume. Blade is sent to Dimension X to hunt down his doppelganger and save the day. But of course none of this will be done without blade meeting a buxom lass while he is naked. The ending is ambiguous and leaves the reader with a loose grasp on what actually happened throughout the book.
Hot off the throes of jilted love blade finds himself in a much more technological part of Dimension X than in his previous travels. The lust and violence are common place in a world dominated by sex crazed amazon like gladiator women. The sex in this volume seriously detracts from this story. It is over the top and unbelievably ridiculous. Blade bedding 947 women? I know this is pulp, but get real.
Action, Blood, sex and just about anything else you could want from teenaged male fiction from the mid 20th century. Much like Howard's Conan the Cimmerian but not quite as literate and calculating, Richard Blade is actually a unique character. The first in a long running series. The stories fly off the page almost as if they were taken from Heavy Metal Magazine. Blade is smart and witty, but still possesses that inner lizard brain quality. He likes to fight, loves the women and hates a coward. He is brash at times, calm at others but when a topless lass comes his way it all goes out the window. For pulp, the writing is pretty good. Not as corny as Doc Savage and flows much better. Not to take away from the Man of Bronze in the least. Roland Green, author of some of the Conan pastiche's penned a handful of these stories. I have the pleasure of having acquired the complete series in one purchase and will unabashedly plow through them much as Blade plows through his enemies.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Utenti
- 879
- Popolarità
- #29,123
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 60
- Lingue
- 2
1970 and feels it.
Plenty of action and pace moves along quickly enough, but characters are generally 1-dimensional, no-ones motives are particularly clear, and even the stronger women characters are all consumed and aquiver at the hero's overpowering manliness and sexual prowess.
Apparently there are 37 or so in this series. I have collected half a dozen or so.
Might try another one or two then move on.