I had heard from so many people about how good this books is, and frankly, I was disappointed. Maybe it is just not my thing, but John Carter seemed like a pretentious, self praising jerk. He set himself up above every other character in the book, and took numerous opportunities to assure the reader...
Well, it was an old school pulp novel, so, yeah 2 stars (I had an idea of what I was walking into). John Carter, our intrepid protagonist, is a Civil War soldier mysteriously transported to Mars. Where he shows up nude and everyone else is nude (except for weapons, pretty much), so that's OK. We s...
After seeing the film John Carter, which is based on this book, I decided to read the book again. It’s been quite a long time and many books ago so I was curious. After the first number of chapters already I was aware that ‘based on’ in this case should be taken very lightly. Yes, there is a John Ca...
I certainly never imagined that I'd read anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs -- let alone something entitled "A Princess of Mars" -- but it was on the Coursera Fantasy and Science Fiction reading list along with a lot of good solid classics that I had read, so I was curious.What a surprise! Of course i...
Additional stuff (my essay) on http://requiemformorebooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/a-princess-of-mars-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/A Princess of Mars is one of those classical pulp science fiction that was purely original and basic of all the science fiction in this world. Its the story of a man who find...
This was one of my husband's favorite pulp sci-fi books growing up, and he was so immensely thrilled that it was being made into a movie that he insisted that I read it before it came out. I have to admit that the book was a little too much of a bloodbath for my tastes. A civil war veteran mysteriou...
Fun and Interesting, mostly. A lot of action and plenty of detail to contribute to the world-building of Barsoom, without getting bogged down by the details. At times, however, the details were almost its undoing, since there were moments that almost felt like I was reading a travel guide of Mars. T...
I came to this having enjoyed the terribly-named movie version much more than I had expected. Not deep, but pulpy fun. (Seriously, John Carter? "A Princess of Mars" was too girly? "John Carter of Mars" might have, what, given the impression it takes place on Mars?!?) I didn't know how much of the bo...
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