At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar Series #1) (Ace SF Classic, # 03321)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
published
1968
(first published 1914)
by Ace Books
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binding
Mass Market Paperback
isbn
0441033210
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Read in July, 2008
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).
Burroughs's has just pulled off the amazing with this, creating a larger world inside ou...more
Burroughs's has just pulled off the amazing with this, creating a larger world inside ou...more
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Read in January, 1967
In the continuing spirit of trying to remember every bk I've ever read, I'm going to list all the Edgar Rice Burroughs Pellucidar bks - adventures in the Hollow Earth. I read them devotedly when I was about 13 to 15 & enjoyed them alot. I also pretty much wrote them off as trash. ERB wrote an enormous amt & I probably read at least 1 of the Mars novels too. Doubt that I'll ever read anything else by him but I'm ALMOST curious to see what my 13 yr old mind got out of these.
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Read in July, 1963
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In concept, this was my favorite of the Burrough's series. Like the John Carter books, David Innes also saves girls, fights monsters and becomes a hero, but his other world, the inner earth, is not so far away as Carter's Barsoom and he gets there using technology. Besides, as a regular reader of Fate Magazine throughout most of junior high, I had heard about Cmd. Peary and his discovery of the entrance to the hollow earth.
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Read in January, 2008
The first one. Fantastic edition (bison)
Enjoy the framing sequence, the crazy digging machine, impossible coincidences and early 20th century racism.
Burroughs always starts his series' off well, and this one does not disappoint. The question, dear reader, is when the series will taper off? I'm sure it's not until after Tarzan comes along in book four. I'll let you know.
Enjoy the framing sequence, the crazy digging machine, impossible coincidences and early 20th century racism.
Burroughs always starts his series' off well, and this one does not disappoint. The question, dear reader, is when the series will taper off? I'm sure it's not until after Tarzan comes along in book four. I'll let you know.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs has a way of making the unbelievable, believable. This book is about a mining city, an actual city built underground, in a mine. The adventure comes in when a boy from above sees a girl from below, who has never seen the son. The mystery is where she came from, and how she survived.
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Read in October, 2008
Edgar Rice Burroughs may be an acquired taste, but I sure think he's fun. In this adventure, our hero bores to the center of the earth only to find an entire civilization, complete with dinosaurs and scary prehistoric monsters! Luckily there is also a super beautiful lady down there...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs was a prolific writer of fiction. He wrote the Tarzan series, and many books about the earth's core, and Mars, and even a few westerns. I love him.
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Previously reviewed under The Original Planet of the Apes at The Taze Files.
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Old does not mean bad read. :D It was so interesting to learn what things were imagined just 50-100 years ago. :)
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A lighthearted and fun adventure novel from Burroughs. What might possibly live at the center of the Earth?
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I read so much Edgar Rice Burroughs I practically flunked out of college, this was one of the better ones
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Read in January, 2003
You gotta love ERB's creativity!
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