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...
Knulp by Herman Hesse Knulp is intelligent and witty and everyone likes him, but he has turned his back on having a career or a home or any of the conventional trappings of success. Instead he travels around, sleeping in fields and visiting friends. Because he’s so happy and charming, he has frien...
about the author:Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres book synopsis:In 1888 Lord and Lady Clayton sail from England but to West Africa and perish on a remote island. Wh...
I really enjoyed this story. It is a fast-paced adventure with little else to really think about. All in all, it was a good break from my usual, more serious literature, and some well-deserved brain candy after a hard semester of classes.
I read this book a chapter at time over a few months, which I think is a good way to consume this book as the writing is basically of the form "...and then this happened...and then this other thing happened..", which for me can become tiresome. It is written from the point of view of the main charac...
For a 100-year-old story, it has held up remarkedly. Parts of the story are very predictable, and the ending seemed abrupt, but it was a great read. I would pit this story against any modern sci-fi or dystopian story, and expect it would rank pretty well. I enjoyed Beyond Thirty aka The Lost Contine...
Though this tale features John Carter's son rather than himself, it was equally good as the previous books of the series. Cathoris was as brave and honorable as his father, and it seems that adventure and just general craziness follows him as it did his father. I had been a little hesitant to cont...
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.
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