I'm not sure why this one was marked fantasy, but, whatever works. : ) Burroughs is always a fun read. I can't decide if Capt. John Carter is just lucky or if he really is that good. A little of both I think.
Proper review time:Princess of Mars is just a fun book. Edgar Rice Burroughs blew clear through my expectations and gave me a dime-store delight style pulp science fiction read that left me grinning. After H.G. Wells’ In the Days of the Comet, I was expecting something stuffy and a bit of drudgery ...
Good pulp sci-fi as John Carter finds himself on Mars fighting his way through the various tribes.The action keeps coming thick and fast, making it an enjoyable page turner to pass a few hours with.
The first in the John Carter books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this is typical of his writing and pulp fiction of last century. Many chapters end on a cliffhanger as this was written for serialization. Action and adventure abound.I love this stuff: it's simple fun story-telling that doesn't pretend to ...
John Carter, a veteran of the American Civil War is prospecting for gold when he and his partner encounter Apaches. He escapes them by entering a sacred cave but immediately succumbs to a strange drowsiness. When he wakes up, he’s on Mars, a dying world known to the locals as Barsoom. There, he is a...
Old school pulp fiction at it's best. Sure compared to more modern science fiction, you can definitley see the lack of true scientific knowledge for the author, but if you take it as the fantastical story that it is, this book is a great read.
One-note characters, a plot that is nonstop coincidences, and gore galore. But wow, Burroughs does write some killer hooks--I could not stop reading. Even the end is a hook--a massive story question is left dangling. Luckily, I had the trilogy-in-one book, so I read the prologue to book two, The God...
OK, it's old school, and you never quite figure out what the heck went on in that cave in the desert, but there's something to be said for old-fashioned brawn. It's like one of the old episodes of Star Trek. Epic, a little silly and also strangely heartwarming. I would totally buy a stuffed animal v...
Yeah, I know it's schlocky pulp science fiction. And yeah, I know it's written in stilted, overly manly prose.But with Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic "A Princess of Mars" now headed for the big screen (starring Friday Night Lights' most-excellent Taylor Kitsch), I thought it was time to read what is ...
If I had read more of this book I swear my eyes would have fallen off from the sheer boredom of it. The concept is great but the writing, the writing is fucking awful, the pace is painful beyond belief and John Carter is the biggest Gary Stu in the history of Sci-fi. I know. I know! You are l...
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