Read the first story in the 2nd volume Robert E. Howard's Conan Chronicles (Fantasy Masterworks edition), Red Nails. This was a bloody entertaining read, with the emphasis on bloody because barely a page goes by where some character is not doing an act of savage violence on another character. Howard's prose is vigorous and he works so hard at making every word bring alive the brutal and wierd feel that it would be almost overkill if he didn't do it so absolutely well.
I also am through most of the 1st volume of DC's Showcase Presents: Superman, and I have to say most of the stories I've read thus far fall in the really dumb category. The writers seem to have little genuine imagination and use ridiculous amounts of lazy contrivance to tell their stories. Sure, with someone as powerful as Superman, it can be hard each time to think of a worthy problem or adversary but making Kryptonite seem like the most easily available element on Earth and constantly varying the kind and extent of effect it has on the blue suit is no answer. And almost every third or fourth story is about how some one comes up with a goofy idea to discover Superman's identity and an even goofier foil that Superman comes up with.
: La Sombra del Viento - Carlos Ruiz Zafón (click on 'Los escenarios').
