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John Carter of Mars (Barsoom #11)
John Carter of Mars, the eleventh and final book in the famous Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and is a collection of two John Carter of Mars stories.
Contains:
"John Carter and the Giant of Mars"
"Skeleton Men of Jupiter"
Contains:
"John Carter and the Giant of Mars"
"Skeleton Men of Jupiter"
Mass Market Paperback, 30 pages
Published
July 12th 1985
by Del Rey
(first published 1964)
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John Carter is of again to rescue his love the Deja Thoris the Red Princess of one of Mars most powerful kingdoms. John Carters ability to perform incredible feats of strength, and marshall prowess do to the lesser gravity of Mars makes him a formidable oponent. Respected by the most warlike people on a very warlike planet. John carter is good friends with Tars Tarkas. One of the green men of Mars. Green giants with six arms and two legs. Which alow them to wield a lot of weapons. As usual John...more
Mais conhecido por ter criado a figura lendária de Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs ficou nos anais da literatura fantástica pela criação deste brilhante personagem John Carter que foi posteriormente transposto para a banda desenhada e para o cinema devido à imensa fama que granjeou com a série de livros escritos pelo autor.
Honestamente, e embora tenha procurado e pesquisado, não consta que por detrás destas aventuras fantásticas tivessem quaisquer metáforas ou analogias ao que quer que seja. Pelos...more
Honestamente, e embora tenha procurado e pesquisado, não consta que por detrás destas aventuras fantásticas tivessem quaisquer metáforas ou analogias ao que quer que seja. Pelos...more
I have to admit, this was a bit of a shock to the system after the eminently readable, richly plotted stories with their well-imagined characters that I've been reading recently. Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars felt a lot more like a Thongor story. It is apparently the 11th novel in the Barsoom series, and is a very thin book containing two stories. It was very clunkily written, partly because it was written to be serialised, and probably also because it didn't quite end up getting pub...more
"John Carter of Mars" is the 11th and final volume in Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic John Carter series, and is comprised of two novellas of varying quality. The first, "John Carter and the Giant of Mars," first appeared in "Amazing Stories Magazine" in January 1941; the second, "Skeleton Men of Jupiter," first appeared in that same publication in February 1943. (For full details on the complicated publishing histories of these tales, I refer all interested parties to the ERB List, one of the bes...more
And so the series ends, not with a bang but with more of a thud or a splat. The 2-star rating is an average of the two stories that make up John Carter of Mars. The first, Giant of Mars, is frankly terrible -- if I'm remembering correctly, it was ghost-written by Burroughs' son for use in a children's chapter book or some such. I don't know if there's a single paragraph in the entire story that doesn't have some kind of colossal violation of previously-established Barsoomian canon -- they have "...more
We have two different works here, combined in one book. First is a novella, ‘The Giant of Mars.’ It is a pretty bad bit of writing. It was not actually written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which helps explain things — ERB at his worst could still turn out a decent bit of adventure. ‘Giant’ was ghost-written by his son, with Burroughs’s input. He tried that approach a few times near the end of his career (‘Tarzan and the Forbidden City’ is apparently another).
The other story is ‘Skeleton Men of Jupit...more
The other story is ‘Skeleton Men of Jupit...more
Easily the least impressive of the Mars books. The first story reads like a bad dream about Barsoom: absurdity on top of absurdity; poorly written; random; etc. The second story's villains are a nice addition to the universe, but they're wasted in an incomplete story that recycles pretty much every detail from earlier stories (invisible ships, Dejah Thoris in danger, yet another invasion of Helium, inhabitants of an invisible city, and so on). I did like that the intelligent plants on Jupiter ha...more
Final book in the epic 11 book Martian Tales series from Edgar Rice Burroughs is actually two short stories together. The first, "John Carter And The Giant Of Mars" is a fun tale that has Carter's love, Dejah Thoris kidnaped by Pew Mogel,one of Ras Thavas' synthetic men, who has learned his master's secrets. Mogel plans to use Dejah as a hostage to force the surrender of Helium and from there, he plans to use Helium's resources to conquer all of Barsoom. With him are his horrid creations, an arm...more
The original John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a true sci-fi classic. The series of several books chronicles the adventures of American John Carter, who "dies" on Earth and finds himself inexplicably awaking on Mars. It is a combination of swashbuckling adventure, sci-fi worlds, and romance. The entire series is a good- and timeless- read. BTW: The recent movie was not particularly faithful to the novel, and completely failed to capture the flavor of the hero, John Carter. Th...more
This book consists of 2 parts "John Carter and the Giant of Mars" and "Skeleton Men of Jupiter"
This review is just for John Carter and the Giant of Mars hopefully I'll get around to reading and reviewing Skeleton Men of Jupiter sometime in the future.
First of all John Carter and the Giant of Mars is a bit of a con despite what it says on the book it is not by Edgar Rice Burroughs, but by his son John Coleman Burroughs, it's very doubtful if ERB had any input at all. Unlike the rest of the series...more
This review is just for John Carter and the Giant of Mars hopefully I'll get around to reading and reviewing Skeleton Men of Jupiter sometime in the future.
First of all John Carter and the Giant of Mars is a bit of a con despite what it says on the book it is not by Edgar Rice Burroughs, but by his son John Coleman Burroughs, it's very doubtful if ERB had any input at all. Unlike the rest of the series...more
The last gasp of the Barsoom series, constructed from snouts and entrails.
The only thing to take away from "The Giant of Mars"--other than some truly substandard writing--was the army of human-brained, four-armed white apes, bearing pew-pew rayguns and riding giant predatory birds. And if you need to have the awesomeness of that explained, then you are clearly in the wrong place. Did you take a wrong turn on your way to a Nora Roberts discussion?
"Skeleton Men of Jupiter" is the raw form of an in...more
The only thing to take away from "The Giant of Mars"--other than some truly substandard writing--was the army of human-brained, four-armed white apes, bearing pew-pew rayguns and riding giant predatory birds. And if you need to have the awesomeness of that explained, then you are clearly in the wrong place. Did you take a wrong turn on your way to a Nora Roberts discussion?
"Skeleton Men of Jupiter" is the raw form of an in...more
These were considered "planetary romances" according to one source back when this series from the creator of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was written. This series of about 10 books started in 1912 and culminated around 1948. There's an odd mention of a book in 1964, but the other had been dead for 14 years by then. Plus there are a few shorts published in some pulp periodicals of the 1940s (where many of these stories appeared in years prior).
Today we call this stuff sci-fi, but it's quite diff...more
Today we call this stuff sci-fi, but it's quite diff...more
I recall that this was made up of two stories. The first was the text of the Little Big Book of John Carter, which I remember being pissed off to find bound for "adult" readers. The second was a partial piece of what promised to be the best John Carter novel in ages, and one I was really sorry to discover was unfinished on ERB's death. Clearly he still had some good JC stories in him.
It's been so long since I've read these books that the details are lost in the mist of time. That said, I'm sure there are variations in the quality of story and prose throughout this series (it's Burroughs, after all), but I choose to remember the series as a whole, and rate it as I remember it through the eyes and mind of the child that read it for the first time...
Overall I really liked the book. The book was first published in 1940 so the proper English used to write the book sometimes bogged the story line down. Some of the words and phrases make you say "what?" and then you have to go back and read it again, slower. I'm looking forward to the movie and hope they've stuck with the story line. I'm really hoping the dialogue is a bit more modern.
This is a posthumously poublished collection of short-stories, one of which is an incomplete effort at concluding the cliff-hanger ending of "Swords of Mars" with John Carter confronting the 'Skeleton Men of Jupiter'. It would have been interesting to see ERB explore more of Barsoom using the short-story format, and also tie up some loose ends from the novels in the process; too bad he didn't!
These stories are not high art, or even good sci-fi/fantasy; but they are terrific yarns with exotic Bar...more
These stories are not high art, or even good sci-fi/fantasy; but they are terrific yarns with exotic Bar...more
Jun 19, 2010
Erik Graff
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
John Carter fans
Recommended to Erik by:
no one
Shelves:
sf
The Martians, one of their races being entirely humanoid but for reddish skin and female nudity, another being green, huge, many-armed and ghastly, exercised my interest throughout early adolescence, it being quite easy to identify with a cashiered Confederate soldier mysteriously cast upon the red planet with only his wits and skill at swordplay.
Jul 05, 2008
Matt
rated it
1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Masochist 'Barsoom' fans
Shelves:
science-fiction,
fantasy
I discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs as a 9 year old boy, and have thereafter been pretty much fated to a long love affair with his works. I've read all the other 'Barsoom' books at least three times, and some of them so many as to have lost count. But I've only read this 'Barsoom' book once, and have no desire to revisit it. 'John Carter of Mars' is a posthumous collection of some discarded ideals that Edgar Rice Burroughs never published, fully developed, or finished polishing.
This book is so fre...more
This book is so fre...more
The last in the 11 books of the "Mars" series. I guess I had the other 10 at some point, in the 1960s Ballantine paperback editions - don't know where they've gotten off to. Pretty good, almost bare-bones adventure writing, stripped down considerably from the style of the first Mars book. Still inventive and entertaining.
Earlier in the week I read John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which was absolutely hilarious. Giant three-legged rats are attacking the telepathically controlled birds used as transport! Oh no, Carter has been captured by the dreaded skeleton men of Jupiter! Classic scifi is adorable. You'll be happy to know all ended happily if fairly egocentrically with Carter consistently saving the day and being pretty cocky about it.
This book was my introduction to sci-fi fantasy decades ago. I sat enthralled while Ms. Gross read this tale to us and then dug into our spelling list, which came from this book. I loved it. Seeing the movie this week just brought back the wonderful twists of the imaginative world of Mars…and I love it when my GoogleSky map shows me where Mars is in the sky.
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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.
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