In this sequel to At the Earth'sof Pellucidar, including the Land of Awful Shadow, which lies beneath the brilliantly conceived pendant moon, and h...
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Apr 13, 2011
David
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Sep 04, 2009
Dave
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Pellucidar is the second novel in the series of the same name by Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1st, 1875 – March 19, 1950). It was published originally as a four-part serial in “All-Story Weekly” from May 8th, 1915 to May 29th, 1915. It is the continuation of the story begun in “At the Earth’s Core” which was published in the prior year. Once again David Innes is the hero, and the action picks up where the prior story left off. In the prologue, Burroughs indicates that he has received a le
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Feb 13, 2009
Andre
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I'm on chapter three of another Project Gutenberg treat. Though ERB's books are truly pulp fiction and far, far from anything remotely like literature, they are nonetheless fascinating and have a pull hard to describe. On one hand the cavalier attitude ERB takes in describing his male characters taking advantage of the natural resources of Pellucidar and their treatment of women makes me cringe. It is a reverse snap shot, in a way, of the prevalent POV that brought us here to this global pass. O
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Jul 27, 2008
Charles
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I have an older edition of this book, from Del Rey, and it's pretty good. I don't care as much for the Hollow Earth stories as his Martian and Venus series, but it's still grand adventure.
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Jun 24, 2011
Nicholas
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Like all Edgar Rice Burroughs books this story revolved around a normal earth man in a bizarre world trying to rescue a kidnapped princess. You would think the premise would bore me by now, but sadly, it doesn't. However this book gets a two star rating because of it's horrendously bad coincidental plot devices and conflicts that take a chapter or three to resolve but one sentence to create. And one more thing, you would think Burroughs heroes would learn to leave a night watch for as often as t
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Jan 10, 2012
AndrewP
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Found a few of these old classics so I thought I would read a few of the ones that I missed years ago.
This certainly shows it age and it's serialized pulp magazine roots. Each chapter is about the same length and is either a complete sub story, or ends in a cliff hanger. The actual narrative seems very dated reading it today. Many sections of adventure are joined together with phrases such as "it came to pass" and "after a long time we came upon".
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This certainly shows it age and it's serialized pulp magazine roots. Each chapter is about the same length and is either a complete sub story, or ends in a cliff hanger. The actual narrative seems very dated reading it today. Many sections of adventure are joined together with phrases such as "it came to pass" and "after a long time we came upon".
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Dec 08, 2009
Thomas
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Really not sure about this one. I'm pretty lukewarm on Burroughs much of the time, and on this one I'm more luke than warm. I love Hollow Earth stuff but here it's just all kind of dull and blockheaded. It feels like more of the same, after reading some of the Mars books and other Burroughs works.
My biggest problem with Burroughs, though, is that it's all tell-don't-show. I don't mind it that much some of the time, but when the telling is his weird wonky worldbuilding stuff that does More...
My biggest problem with Burroughs, though, is that it's all tell-don't-show. I don't mind it that much some of the time, but when the telling is his weird wonky worldbuilding stuff that does More...
Feb 12, 2012
Daniel
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Confusingly, the book "Pellucidar" is actaually #2 in the series, not #1. That would be "At the Earth's Care," another terrifically fun book. Anyway, this keeps the momentum of #1 going, without a lot of gloomy reflection and plenty of nail-biting action. ERB's slightly old-fashioned writing style might slow some readers down, but to me it's perfect weekend-afternoon fare. And dinosaurs! How can you go wrong?
Jul 09, 2008
St-Michel
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Well, pushed through the first two books of the Pellucidar series in two nights, and what an awesome series so far. This book was basically the icing on the cake as a follow-up to At the Earth's Core and filled in everything and more that I wanted to know about this strange new land. Just the beginning itself blew me away where David Innes must relate his entire story through TELEGRAPH via a wire traversing the entire Earth's crust - my god! what a concept!
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Feb 18, 2010
SheaN
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Feb 07, 2012
Marcus
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The first in the series (At the Earth's Core) was good, but this is where the series really takes off IMO. ERB is an old-fashioned writers with an old-fashioned style, lots of narration, not much dialgue, but his sense of adventure is palpable. Probably not too PC these days, but it was a different time.
Jun 04, 2010
Bryan457
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I still don't like David or Perry. Their empire building rubbed me the wrong way. The way time flows at different speeds for different people just because they have no way to tell time seems pretty ridiculous.
Dec 31, 2008
Tim
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A little more coherent than the first book in the series, and a little more believable. Again Burroughs does a great job of keeping the story interesting and introducing some good wrinkles.
Feb 28, 2010
Mark
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Loved it. I have this very one (second best cover ever). Liking ERB now is perhaps a little embarrassing! Oh well.
Aug 27, 2011
Ailish
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This book is as gripping as the first one, although they all blend together within a few days of finishing them. The blight on this book is the glorification of industrialisation, mines, factories, etc. to which everyone looks forward so much.
Nov 11, 2008
Jenkins
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I've got a 1925 copy of this book in rather poor condition. Will finish reading after I repair the binding. As exciting as the first so far.
9/19/08: The binding repair is going well. Just got the final component, so god willing it won't be long now.
11/10/08: Finished the repair work. Hopefully the new binding will last another 90 years or more.
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9/19/08: The binding repair is going well. Just got the final component, so god willing it won't be long now.
11/10/08: Finished the repair work. Hopefully the new binding will last another 90 years or more.
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Mar 10, 2008
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
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Not the edition I read but I prefer to pick one w/ a cover illustration. I long since don't have the original bks anymore. I wd've had the Ace 1960s reprints.
Jun 17, 2008
Martin
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Gotta give the sequel a solid. It's really more of the same, but if you like same you win.
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