A SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK A PRINCESS OF MARS!John Carter travels to Barsoom to live, love, and fight amongst the Green Men, the Red Men, and the White Apes! his Earthman physique combined with Barsoomian gravity means he's incredibly strong and can jump like a giant-sized super-grasshopper!John Carter ...
I recently picked up my (inherited from my father) 36-year-old copy of a 100-year old story thinking I could, based upon my enjoyment of the recent film (a film people seem to really like or really hate), blow through it in a few evenings. How wrong I was.I really, really, really wanted to like this...
I had a hard time getting into this book at first. I had to reread many sentences to understand what the author meant. A few sentences contradict themselves. First, the author says, "Most..." but then counters with "A few..." right after it. Reading carefully is required to understand what's going o...
I had a hard time getting into this book at first. I had to reread many sentences to understand what the author meant. A few sentences contradict themselves. First, the author says, "Most..." but then counters with "A few..." right after it. Reading carefully is required to understand what's going o...
Classic sword-and-planet, which is fitting, because this book pretty much created the genre. Arguably, this is Burroughs at his best, even though it was his first. The Burroughs tropes are all here: a man's man outsider protagonist winning the respect of a barbarian culture; noble warriors of said...
The days of innocence in thoughts, words and deeds, are long gone – but remain in the written word, such as that of Edgar Rice Burroughs. No review can give him enough merit. I haven't felt so long so much admiration and genuine child-like interest marked by eyes and mouth wide agape in amazement. I...
It's 20th-century-pulp-science-fiction therapy time. What did I learn about myself from reading Edgar Rice Burrough's "John Carter of Mars"?1) I'm not overly bothered by the abuse of scientific fact in pulp sci-fi. A perfect example: red and green Martian women have breasts and other mammalian thing...
Like most people, it seems, I saw the trailers for Andrew Stanton’s John Carter adaptation and thought it looked stupid. And this is coming from a person who LOVES science fiction, especially of the pulpy kind (more often than not, the stupider it is, the more I love it), and who knew the history an...
I probably read this at the wrong age. It's a (very) old-fashioned SciFi romp. I should have read it at 12/13 and probably would have thought a) it was great and b) I was very grown-up and sophisticated for seeing past the slightly archaic language and attitudes.At 45 it still seems like an ok read ...
Some years back David Bowie asked the musical question, "Is there life on Mars?" Had he read A Princess of Mars he might have known the answer. Back in the early 60’s I fell in love. Not with a girl, (well, there were one or two cracks opened in that young heart, but we do not speak of that now) but...
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