Lord Conrad's Crusade [Paperback]

Leo Frankowski (Author), Rodger Olsen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 14, 2005

Brand new. Number Seven in the Conrad Series.This time, Conrad goes on vacation and sees parts of the world he never imagined when he is taken captive by the Twaregs. Of course, he escapes and leads his armies on a crusade that he did not want to fight. 120,000 words and 230 pages of true old fashioned Conrad Stargard. Some people go to dude ranches or on cruises. Conrad's vacations look a little more like the Second Crusade.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Great Authors Online (September 14, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977386902
• ISBN-13: 978-0977386901
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Conrad's Latest Adventure, March 13, 2006

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E. M. Hunt (Donelson, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lord Conrad's Crusade (Paperback)

The latest Conrad Stargard book is an enjoyable read, but it's not Frankowski's best work. It was some typos and editing problems, but they don't detract from the story.

Conrad is bored; he hasn't faced any new challenges in years, so he decides to go on "Vacation" to points unknown, alone. Not even Conrad Stargard can foresee every possible problem and he finds himself sick, maimed, and enslaved. He always felt that slavery was a crime against God, and being slave didn't change his mind. So Conrad did the sort thing that Conrad does, I don't want to spoil the story, but we get another classic Conrad Stargard book out the situation.

Before Conrad left Poland, the Pope (Ignacio) and the King (Henryk) were trying to order him to "Re-Take" the Holy Lands from the "Infidel Moslems". He refused pointing out that they had Polish Citizen's who were Moslems, so he couldn't see attacking someone based on their religion, and that the Christian Church couldn't "Re-Take" property that they had never owned. He suggested that they "Take" the Holy Land through trade and good works instead. Ignacio and Henryk became very upset about this, and in my opinion forgot who put them on their thrones, so they started the Crusade while Conrad was on "Vacation".

The novel wraps up these loose ends and gives "Uncle Tom" a challenge to overcome that may make life interesting for him and may give us a new book in the future.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Reads like a cross between a rough draft and an outline, January 2, 2007

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silliman89 "silliman89" (Burke, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lord Conrad's Crusade (Paperback)

I'm a huge fan of the Conrad series. I was more than happy to buy this book off the author's personal web page, just to see how Conrad was doing. Unfortunately there are many glaring problems with this latest installment.

First, this is not a finished product, apparently due to lack of a publisher. There are uncountable errors throughout the text, not just typo's but also the wrong word, pronoun, or character's name. Some events are disjointed, unexplained, or just don't make sense. Some sections are fully fleshed out, and bring the reader right into the action and the character's motivation, while other sections are the merest outline, with just bare facts listed in chronological order.

Still, these technical problems could be overlooked if that was the price we had to pay to enjoy another Conrad adventure. Except that Conrad has changed. He's become pompous, conceited, and spoiled. He refuses to listen to the Pope, a personal friend of his who saved his life repeatedly earlier in the series. Conrad goes to a neighboring kingdom and makes a point of being as rude as possible to the king, who never did him any real harm. In fact, the whole "I need a vacation from all this" seemed pretty petulant and spoiled.

One of my personal pet peeves though is with geography. Conrad travels along a river for a large part of the book. This is a significant river that is featured prominently on any globe of the world. Conrad follows the river to a mountain range that in actual fact is over a thousand miles from the river. There's a big difference between walking along a river full of water, and walking a thousand miles where water may be hard to find.

Basically, I cannot recommend this book to any but the most addicted of Conrad junkies, and those should be forewarned.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Real old manly science fiction, October 13, 2005

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cindy bismuth "Cindy" (Chicago, il) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lord Conrad's Crusade (Paperback)

If you liked Frankowski's other books, you will love this one. Conrad Stargard, anti-feminist, woman degraging, pig of the universe, strikes again. This is pure man adventure stuff. A great hero swings his mighty and magical sword laying waste to all around him and reluctantly agrees to pleasure all of the ex slave girls begging for his attention.

Unfortunately, Woman Hater Frankowski's writing is good enough, and his stories interesting enough, where I read the book all the way through, complaining, and enjoying as I went. Mr. Frankowski's world is exciting and his characters, other than the women, are noble enough to be interesting.

As a woman I do not know if want to shake his hand if we meet, or if I want to use it to break his arm off at the shoulder and pound some respect for women into him - but I keep buying and reading his books and I have to be honest enough to say that he is a good a writer, and this was a good adventure.