Conan The Triumphant

This book follows the Conan formula enough to be familiar, but as much as I love Robert Jordan, this book has several problems. I'm wondering if Jordan was getting tired of writing Conan and wanted to write something with a more feminine perspective (like The Eye of the World, perhaps) and something with more political intrigue than Robert E. Howard's Conan. In much of the book the writing is clumsy and the figures of speech are far more exaggerated than anywhere in Howard's work. In the end Conan doesn't succeed by his smart strategy as he does in the Howard novels, and the end is fairly predictable. The expectations for Conan must have changed a lot between Howard's death and the 1970s, as Conan spends most of this novel sleeping with various women or trying to, instead of seeking glory.