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Warlord of Mars (Barsoom #3)
Far to the north, in the frozen wastes of Polar Mars, lay the home of the Holy Therns, sacred and inviolate. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris. But between him and his goal lay the bones of all who had gone before.
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
April 12th 1985
by Random House Publishing Group
(first published 1919)
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"The Warlord of Mars" (1914) is the 3rd of ll John Carter novels from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is a direct continuation of the first two in the series--"A Princess of Mars" and "The Gods of Mars"--and a reading of those earlier titles is absolutely essential before going into this one. Here, Carter tries to rescue his princess, Dejah Thoris, from the clutches of some particularly nasty villains. In his relentless pursuit, one that makes Indiana Jones look...more
The third book, thankfully, picks up just a few months later. John Carter's enemies from "Gods" are seemingly defeated, but a few manage to put aside their own differences to work against him and to keep him from rescuing Dejah Thoris and Thuvia. This time, the chase really is across the planet, from one civilization hidden in the southern polar ice-cap to another hidden in the northern polar ice-cap. We're introduced to the last remaining humanoid race on the planet, the Yellow Mar...more
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Just before turning eight, I got a little brother, Fin, the only sibling I grew up with. Mom and Dad were lucky because I was generally bored and, so, actually wanted to spend time with him when he got old enough to toddle about and talk. I read to him, but mostly I told him stories, crazy stories featuring lots of naughty things that little kids delight in like poop and farting and talking animals.
Since I was into the John Carter books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the whole Mars/Barso...more
Since I was into the John Carter books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the whole Mars/Barso...more
A rousing end to the first Martian trilogy featuring John Carter. Burroughs does a good job of opening up new Martian territory with each tale, and this one explores the uncharted North Pole. While I loved the first novel, liked the second one, this third novel is a bit of a problem in certain aspects. One is the fact that Dejah Thoris, John Carter's wife, is primary in the role of the MacGuffin for books 2 & 3. I appreciated her strong headed sensibility in the first novel. I suppose I cam...more
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“The Warlord of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs picks up where “The Gods of Mars” left off. This novel was published from December of 1913 to March of 1914 in “All-Story” as a serial, and then published as a novel in September of 1919. Unlike “A Princess of Mars”, neither “The Gods of Mars” nor “The Warlord of Mars” can easily stand alone. The former volume ends in a cliff-hanger, and this novel relies on the reader knowing what is going on. Also, it is to the benefit of the reader to start w...more
I wrote a sparklingly clever review but then lost it due to a stupid mistake... So here's the short version:
Of the trilogy that is Princess, Gods, and Warlord, this is the least. The plot doesn't add enough new to the formula. The central conflict is silly (a weirdly farcical chase to keep some bad guys from committing marital rape upon Dejah Thoris). The lack of Tars Tarkis is disappointing. The Yellow Men pale as villains compared to the ancient conspiracies of the White and Black ...more
Of the trilogy that is Princess, Gods, and Warlord, this is the least. The plot doesn't add enough new to the formula. The central conflict is silly (a weirdly farcical chase to keep some bad guys from committing marital rape upon Dejah Thoris). The lack of Tars Tarkis is disappointing. The Yellow Men pale as villains compared to the ancient conspiracies of the White and Black ...more
I almost liked this one as much as princess of mars. The beginning was a tad bit slow and took me awhile to actually get into it, but like always I was not disappointed. Burroughs was so good at making ridiculous adventure stories.It seems that the action never stops and the ending of this book ended on a much higher note then Gods of mars. I love the relationships the characters have with each other. They are very formal but are made of the highest respect for each other that it seems like the ...more
I read "A Princess of Mars" because they're making a movie; I read the second book (Gods of Mars) because I was interested in the series.
I think I read "The Warlord of Mars" because it was free and I had it on my Nook ereader -- it's not quite up to the standard of the first two.
The Warlord of Mars has an "epic" feel about it, but it's fairly short, and ultimately felt a little thin.
Still, Burroughs' Mars series are pulp sci-fi/plane...more
I think I read "The Warlord of Mars" because it was free and I had it on my Nook ereader -- it's not quite up to the standard of the first two.
The Warlord of Mars has an "epic" feel about it, but it's fairly short, and ultimately felt a little thin.
Still, Burroughs' Mars series are pulp sci-fi/plane...more
as with the previous book in the series (gods of mars) the constant up-and-down, saved-at-the-last-minute-from-the-jaws-of-death device was a bit tedious.
there is huge potential in this series and i look forward to the upcoming film based on this trilogy. i give the trilogy the benefit of the doubt because it was a (weekly?) serial and Burroughs was clearly writing in a stream of conscious manner from episode to episode.
if he were consciously writing a trilogy, he would ...more
there is huge potential in this series and i look forward to the upcoming film based on this trilogy. i give the trilogy the benefit of the doubt because it was a (weekly?) serial and Burroughs was clearly writing in a stream of conscious manner from episode to episode.
if he were consciously writing a trilogy, he would ...more
I was really disappointed in the third volume of Burroughs' Barsoom series. While the first two books were delightfully campy fun, the third was trite and tedious, even though it tried to tell the same type of story.
In the previous installment, The Gods of Mars, the story left off with our hero's wife being imprisoned with two other women, one of whom was trying to kill her, as John Carter looked on helpless to save them. Instead of an equally engrossing adventure to save them, my ...more
In the previous installment, The Gods of Mars, the story left off with our hero's wife being imprisoned with two other women, one of whom was trying to kill her, as John Carter looked on helpless to save them. Instead of an equally engrossing adventure to save them, my ...more
Much better than #2 and a fine end to the Barsoom Trilogy. A much quicker read than book two. Still didn't capture the magic of the first but I am glad I kept with it and finished. John Carter is his usual swashbuckling invincible self and this time he must rescue his wife from evil kidnappers (the two empires he destroyed in book 2). Nice little travelog as he tracks them across Mars, and it ties up all the loose ends - although maybe a little too neatly as John Carter always seems to find...more
The third John Carter of Mars book picks up where the cliffhanger in the second book left off. This lightweight story amounts to one long chase scene, with added perils at every turn. Not that that is a bad thing, necessarily. It was quite fun, and Burrough's imaginative world is interesting. Naturally, the stiff dialogue and poor characterization that plague the previous books continues with this one as well, and John Carter seems a bit dimmer in this episode. However, if Andrew Stanton does in...more
I’m going to continue to read Burroughs’ Tarzan and John Carter books as time permits but, having just read Warlord Of Mars, I gotta’ say, Burroughs was kind of a lazy writer. The action is just sort of one event after the other; the narrative flow is a little jerky. Like how sometimes John Carter’s amazing strength knows no bounds while at others it’s just not enough. Or near the end, when Carter climbs into Thurid’s flyer and suddenly has a dagger. In that case, one could assume he picked ...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 sc...more
Today we call this stuff sc...more
This was a lot of fun, super easy to read, and fairly rediculous.
It seemed more obvious in this thrid book that Burroughs was writing this (these) stories for pulp magazines; each chapter is much more like an 'episode' with a cliff hanger endding and a miraculious resolution at the begining of every new chapter.
As with the other books, Burroughs's world of Barsoom is really well fleshed out and highly creative. However, I did feel like this one was a bit more repetitive....more
It seemed more obvious in this thrid book that Burroughs was writing this (these) stories for pulp magazines; each chapter is much more like an 'episode' with a cliff hanger endding and a miraculious resolution at the begining of every new chapter.
As with the other books, Burroughs's world of Barsoom is really well fleshed out and highly creative. However, I did feel like this one was a bit more repetitive....more
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I really enjoyed this one. It picks up right where the last one left off, and is basically Carter on a cross planet chase. It's non-stop action and constantly entertaining (over the top) situations and characters keep you into it.
Now I have to find the next volume...
Now I have to find the next volume...
Didn't hold up as well as I'd hoped it would. I understand why it was my favorite as a kid, because it's basically one long chase sequence with tons of action on almost every page. But ERB falls into some traps of convenience and redundancy (John Carter is too stupid for words on several occasions, and luckier than any man could possibly hope for in others) that make this, surprisingly, my least favorite of the original Mars trilogy.
I simply can't give this book a rating. I SHOULD give it 5 stars for the same reason I gave 5 stars to The Night of the Crabs. I mean, it's so bad, it's actually pretty entertaining, if you appreciate a ridiculous deus ex machina every 10 pages. Mr. Burroughs uses this trick even when it's totally unnecessary. At some point, you half-expect John Carter to shoot a gun in random direction and hit one of his enemies (what the hell - ALL of his enemies!) right between the eyes. So, no stars. Or five...more
Despite the slightly annoying parts where our modern knowledge makes chunks of the store seem beyond ridiculous, this series is still proving a good read. Yes the hero is beyond cocky, but that's part of his charm. With the addition of yet another race on Burrough's version of Mars this book managed to produce the same high action feel as the earlier novels in the series, and again I find myself anxious to start the next book.
Many years ago a friend gave me all of the books in this series...except for this one because the used book store she got them from didn't happen to have any copies. With the great interval, I was a little rusty on the details leading up to this book, although just about anything critical is sprinkled somewhere within it.
This is pulp fiction at it's finest, for better or worse. Science fiction only by dint of the story taking place on Mars, it is the story of a warrior searching for...more
This is pulp fiction at it's finest, for better or worse. Science fiction only by dint of the story taking place on Mars, it is the story of a warrior searching for...more
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...
I've never read one of these: my in-laws sent me a lovely first-edition they found. Boy, the pulp is strong with this one. Kind of fun, but I'm not sure I could hold my suspension of disbelief and my suspension of rolling my eyes at the various racial and gender grotesquieries on display long enough to get through more than a few. The man could make up alien names though.
The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars are pretty much Inseparable. They make no sense without each other.
I found them to be an exciting action packed story. Somehow pretty much everything that can go wrong, does—but John Carter always seems to luck out just when it really matters.
It's an exiting roller coaster of a read. Fast, Exciting, Full of Ups and Downs.
I found them to be an exciting action packed story. Somehow pretty much everything that can go wrong, does—but John Carter always seems to luck out just when it really matters.
It's an exiting roller coaster of a read. Fast, Exciting, Full of Ups and Downs.
wow, this is worlds better than the previous book. probably because of its momentum: eddie burroughs lets the same single chase drive the story from beginning to end instead of picking at straws to find more things for JOHN CARTER, PRINCE OF HELIUM to do.
he still can't write a dramatic twist to save his life. that explains why he's dead.
he still can't write a dramatic twist to save his life. that explains why he's dead.
A fun romp with a man whose imagination new know boundaries.John Carter of Mars is just plain fun. Of course the writing is somewhat archaic but if you can get past that it is a fun read.
Definitely the best of the three novels based on John Carters early experiences on Mars.Burroughs does a classic job of closing out this series of stories.
Definitely the best of the three novels based on John Carters early experiences on Mars.Burroughs does a classic job of closing out this series of stories.
A fine and rousing conclusion to the Barsoom saga, which sees that red-blooded Virginian fighting man, John Carter, at last reunited with his beautiful and beloved bride, the incomparable Dejah Thoris.
Really, I can't express how much I love these books: the over-the-top high-falutin language, the fast pace, the EPIC scale of the action. It is all just so much fun!
Really, I can't express how much I love these books: the over-the-top high-falutin language, the fast pace, the EPIC scale of the action. It is all just so much fun!
Please note, this 5 star rating is based on my long ago memories of this book - I may have read it greater than 20 years ago. I recall reading and really liking it, and even kept the book to read again in the future (something I only do with good, or otherwise significant books). The memories of an old man are sometimes faulty so this could really only warrant 3.5 to 4.5 stars, instead of the 5 I gave it. Once I re-read the book I will update this rating/review to more accurately reflect my thou...more
I get that Burroughs is supposedly one of the founding fathers of Science Fiction. I know that he is revered by some of the authors I cherish. However, I just can't really enjoy these books. I've read the first three now and it seems like an endless cycle of fight, rescue, fight, get kidnapped, fight, meet new races/monsters, fight, fight, fight, and I'm just not all that entertained by the endless descriptions of battle and what a cream-your-pants awesome fighter John Carter is. Bottom line: I ...more
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I am a sucker for Edgar Rice Burroughs. I love the dated style and historical significance of all of his work. I read them as a child and have reread them as an adult and I am still amazed at the man's ability to crank out enjoyable stories about worlds that existed only in his head.
see review for Gods of Mars...this book should be read back to back with Gods of Mars. The story is one story that was probably broken up between two books when it was published because back then you didn't publish large books in one volume.
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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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