Yeah...I was a huge reader as a kid and it sounds like we read the same stuff for probably the same reasons. REH was great. Conan, Kull, Bran Mac Morn, Cormac Mac Art, Solomon Kane, and his historical fiction stuff are all amazing. My favorite REH story is The Sowers of the Thunder, which would be a pretty great movie in its own right. I recently picked up the three REH Conan collections in print and on audiobook. Listening to Red Nails was a blast...I first read that when I was 11 and it scared me. 
Red Nails I read when I was 12 in YDC....my favorite Conan Book, except maybe The hour of the Dragon.
it didn't scare me though....
no google....
The Lion Banner sways and falls in the Horror Haunted gloom
A Scarlett dragon rustles by born on wings of doom
in heaps the shinning Horseman lie, their thrusting lances break....
Deep in the shadows the lost black Gods awake.
dead hands grope in the Shadows the stars turn pale with fright,
for this is the Dragons Hour the triumph of fear and night.
its probably wrong...but I haven't read that book in years.....
REH is to me, the greatest pulp fiction author....all his stuff is phenomenal
ya i read like a fiend when i was younger too, surprised my eyes didn't bleed...but things that went boom were a lot more fun than swords and knives.
I read "Battlefield earth" in 3 days....I can read over 700 pages in a day....
when you are locked up there isn't all that much to do....
considering I had my 12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20th,21st,and finally got out 4 days before I turned 22...birthdays all locked up, saying I did a lot of reading....is an understatement.
sorry for hijack
old war movie that should be redone that no one has mentioned.
7 Samurai
