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October 2018 - Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
By Sarah · 5 posts · 28 views
By Sarah · 5 posts · 28 views
last updated Nov 01, 2018 08:22AM
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Good choice for a car ride -- we all have read the book, and we enjoyed both the nostalgia and the images, while pausing sometimes to gawk at the attitudes and assumptions, some time-period typical and some just Burroughs originals. Got us through Oregon in good spirits.
While I can appreciate Burroughs imagination at a time when Science fiction was a very small genre and not as popular as it is today, I can't appreciate some of his writing. So often throughout 'A Princess of Mars' things would work out for our hero because of some skill he's had all along but only now mentioned at the exact time he needs it. The novel was originally printed in installments, which I understand would prevent Burroughs from returning to earlier chapters to add a point that his her
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It was alright. The story was really outlandish and a bit cliché and the protagonist is (of course) incredibly brave, resourceful, cunning, skillful, etc, etc. I won't be reading any more books in the series, but I didn't hate reading it either.
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A Princess of Mars contains a few very interesting concepts. I enjoyed reading all the action scenes and figuring out how John Carter would get out of his next scrape, but I was a little put off by how much of a damsel in distress his love interest, Dejah Thoris, was. I wish she had had more agency.
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Chelsea
marked it as to-read
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Joy
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Meg
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Steph
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Cameo
is currently reading it
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Deken
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Kirsten Ward
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Aug 09, 2022
Megan, Empress of the Literary Kingdom, Conqueror of the Histories
marked it as tbr-nonfiction-classics
