When Abner Perry invents a vehicle that essentially drills through the earth, he takes it to his good friend (and independently wealthy man about t...
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Dec 28, 2008
Rafael
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Fue un sentimiento absoluto de nostalgia el que me hizo comprar el libro. Cuando vi el título me sorprendí por un momento y luego recordé los días en que mi papá nos llevaba a comer al restaurante “La Opera “en las calles de Serapio Rendón, hace cincuenta años. Atravesando la calle, en una esquina, había una librería; en sus vitrinas se exhibían los libros. Creo recordar haber visto en esos aparadores una edición de las mil y una noches, que mi papá compró y nos leía.
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Feb 17, 2009
Lizzy
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Young David Innes' scientist friend, Abner Perry, has invented a wonderful new machine that he expects will revolutionize mining techniques. Dubbed "The Mole", it is capable of digging through the ground with incredible power. However, on the test run, something goes awry, and the digger carries Perry and David deep beneath the Earth's crust, where they expect to be vaporized by the intense heat of the molten core. Instead, when the machine finally stops, they find themselves in a stra
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Apr 13, 2011
David
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Jan 07, 2011
Cory
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Jun 14, 2011
Marvin
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Edgar Rice Burroughs could be called The God-father of cheesy fantasy adventure. He can boast of influencing many later fantasy writers from Robert E. Howard to even John Norman, but that is not exactly something you would want on your resume. I had a brief obsession with Tarzan when I was nine but, asides from that series, I've found Burroughs' pulp adventures to be trite and silly. At The Earth's Core is no exception. Except for a rather exciting beginning, in which our intrepid but boring her
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Aug 05, 2009
Dave
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After starting his Barsoom and Tarzan series of adventures, Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1st, 1875 – March 19, 1950), wrote “At the Earth’s Core” which was published in 1914. This kicked off his Pellucidar series, which is based on the idea that the Earth is hollow and there are creatures from our prehistoric times still alive and active, as well as more than a few horrific creatures, both intelligent and non-intelligent. As with many of Burrough’s ideas, that of a hollow Earth would inspire
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Dec 11, 2011
Williwaw
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A swashbuckling breeze of a book! Imagine a hollow earth, inhabited by strange beasts and stone-age humanoids. The hollow space is lit by a perpetual sun which floats at its center. A small moon rotates synchronously with the earth, so that it casts a permanent shadow over one region of the land called Pellucidar.
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Dec 20, 2009
Marts (Thinker)
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I enjoyed this Burrourghs title.
At the Earth's Core is all about an inventor Abner Perry and a young wealthy gentleman David Innis. Perry invents a vehicle referred to as the 'iron mole' which has drilling properties so powerful it can drill into the earth's core. Innis goes with Perry on a test run and ends up reaching earth's core which amazingly, is hollow. At the hollow core is a world called Pellucidar with stange beings like Mahars and Sagoths. They make aquaintances with Ghak More...
At the Earth's Core is all about an inventor Abner Perry and a young wealthy gentleman David Innis. Perry invents a vehicle referred to as the 'iron mole' which has drilling properties so powerful it can drill into the earth's core. Innis goes with Perry on a test run and ends up reaching earth's core which amazingly, is hollow. At the hollow core is a world called Pellucidar with stange beings like Mahars and Sagoths. They make aquaintances with Ghak More...
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Feb 19, 2010
Reed
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This was the first book I ever read by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It started me on a love affair with the Fantasy book genre and captured my imagination as a young boy. While I have read many of his books, I will only review this one since it was my first. It's probably been over 30 years since I've read a Burroughs book but I can still recall the excitement I felt when reading these adventures. I loved everything about them. The creatures, warriors and women on the covers were fascinating for a youn
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Dec 08, 2009
Thomas
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After reading some John Carter and a couple Venus books, I found this pretty much more of the same from ERB. I always find his scientific inventions to be more interesting in concept (ie, on the back of the book) than when they're actually on the page, whereupon they start to sound kind of boneheaded. But then, pretty much all the science fiction from this era and before had that problem. And his action sequences would be thrilling, if there weren't so damn MANY of them. If you have not read a B
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Feb 02, 2012
Stephen
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As I return in my dotage to reread some of the Burroughs tales that so captivated me many years ago, I continue to find them enjoyable. I do feel the need to acknowledge that this is pure escapism. There are points, at least in this book, where the prose is almost laughable, and generally speaking much of it could have been burnished to provide a more enjoyable reading experience. But none of that negates the sheer delight of Burroughs' imagination, and the impressive whole societies and worlds
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Jan 02, 2012
Richard
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To review a novel such as this, you need to figure out how much slack to cut it for it having been written in 1914. I confess this is the first Burroughs novel I've read, and I'll read a few more. But I never felt the main character was in any danger, despite the fact (or maybe because)it was as if he was on a merry-go-round of goofy monsters. The characters, of course, are cartoonish. But if this is the kind of mindless trip you feel like going on, it's OK. Not a threat to Jules Verne.
Jan 20, 2010
Sam
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This book was part of a clue in a crossword puzzle - it sounded interesting, so I read it online. Pretty quick read - by the author of Tarzan. Kind of a zany story about discovering a savage cave-man/dinosaur world ruled by evil lizard-men at the center of the earth. It was pretty fierce... yeah, fierce is a good way to describe it. I enjoyed the awkward romancing of a cavewoman (Dian the Beautiful); I didn't enjoy the savage brutaliy of the lizard-men.
Feb 12, 2012
Daniel
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Saw this on someone else's to-read list, and I remembered it from my teenage years... Man it's a great book (and series). Maybe I'm remembering through the glow of nostalgia, but I really like the sheer adventurousness of them. Not a whole lot of character development (!) and maybe a little thin in the snappy-banter dept, but still a quick read noetheless, and a fun one. If you like one you'll probably love the whole set.
Jul 23, 2011
Chris
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A dreamy yet sometimes nightmarish excursion into the world beneath our world: Pelucidar! With ugly cavemen, beautiful cavewomen, armies of ape-men, a wide variety of dinosaurs, man eating reptile birds that rule the underworld, and giant mechanical mole machines, Burroughs packs a lot of oomph and pizzazz into this science romance. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series which also includes a Tarzan story!
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Jan 14, 2012
Warnie B.
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3.5 stars, but you know what? I'm bumping it up just for the end. So yeah, this book is pretty ridiculous. Two guys build an "iron mole" in which they can burrow through the Earth's crust for mining, only when they start burrowing, they find they can't turn the thing like they thought they could and now omg, they're going to the center of the Earth!!! And there are dinosaurs there! And flying telepathic lizard men! And gorilla men! And a hot babe! And adventures! Yeah, there's some stu
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Jul 08, 2008
St-Michel
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Started this last night and finished this last night. What an incredible book. This is the first book I've ever read by Burroughs and it sure as heck makes me want to read more. His writing style is very reminiscent of Verne, though without all the technical and mathematic inserts that Vern usually utilizes (though I am a big fan of that, don't get me wrong, that's one of the reasons I love his books).
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Oct 13, 2010
Vince
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A great read! Pure unapologetic escapist fantasy! Burroughs, to me, was the premier pulp writer; not just in Sci-fi but in other genre's as well. Just re-read his John Carter of Mars series. Forget Tarzan! The Mars books were some of his best. "Pellucidar", the followup to "At The Earth's Core" was an excellent sequel.
Feb 15, 2010
SheaN
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A ridiculous adventure story that left me really wanting to get to the sequel as soon as possible. I mean the main character falls in love with a cave-woman at the center of the earth (that somehow has its own stationary sun...) and has to leave to bring back guns to the primitive people! Fucking crazy.
Jan 04, 2009
Jerry
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When you need fantasy and another world this is very good stuff. Movies have been made from this author's book (and his series) but they do not come close.Within the last 35 years or so I have read and reread the "Inner Earth" series many times. An excellent read.
Jan 17, 2012
Cherie
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Like all things Tarzan, I loved the Pellucidar series. I read as many as I could find in my Middle School and High School Library. Looks like they are back in print again. The language is probably pretty quaint for the kids of today, but the stories are great.
May 31, 2010
Nathan
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Why is it that it generally seems his first books in the series are so much better than that rest in the series, and that after the Mars and Tarzan series, the seem so much like a 'formula'. Oh wait, they are a basic formula. Just a guilty pleasure.
Dec 31, 2008
Tim
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A very nice adventure story. As with all adventure stories there are copious amounts of luck and a few unlikely scenarios, but Burroughs certainly has a good imagination and has put together an interesting world.
Jan 27, 2009
Andre
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Do I really need to say why? LOL! For Silent Sustained Reading I'd forgotten my book so I got on to Project Gutenberg <http://www.gutenberg.org/> and dailed up some ERB for giggles.
Jul 11, 2011
Hal
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I thought I'd have to take a lactase pill. The only thing cheesier than this book is the 1976 movie version. (It's on netflix watch instantly.)
May 20, 2010
仔, 我 决 定 爱 你 一萬年
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cerita seorang anggota Royal Geology Society tentang pertemuannya di padang pasir Sahara dengan seseorang bernama David Inles yang mengaku telah menjelajahi perut bumi.
David Inles menceritakan kehidupan di dalam perut bumi, sebuah dunia yang mirip dengan bumi, hanya saja di masa yang berbeda, masa-masa prasejarah. Dimana manusia [purba yang digambarkan juga banyak rasnya, ada yang masih berekor seperti onye', ada yang sudah berupa manusia biasa:] bukan ras yang berkuasa disana, tetap More...
Mar 08, 2011
Nicholas
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Travel to the center of the earth and fight dinosaurs and ice age animals. Could there be anything cooler?
Nov 22, 2010
Stephen
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2.5 stars. Solidly between 2 stars (it's okay) and 3 stars (I like it), this classic pulp science fiction adventure is the first of the Pellucidar series about a hidden world (complete with a sun and a moon) located in the center of the Earth. I am a fan of Pulp SF and liked the idea behind the series and the general pace of the adventure. The only reason I didn't rate this higher was that I was not as fond of the main character as I have been of other pulp heroes (e.g., Eric John Stark by Leigh
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Feb 06, 2011
This sounds kind of like Journey to the Center of the Earth. I should try this one, too...
Dec 13, 2011
Darth
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Solid scifi adventure tale. I read it very quickly and liked it very much.
