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I had an 8 hour car ride today. So I stopped by the library yesterday looking for an Audioook. There I saw a book I read as a child was narrated by my favorite reader, Scott Brick. I snatched it up. The miles flew by as Edgar Rice Burroughs transported me all over again to Barsoom, a world that enraptured me as a youngster, and like many that have gone before me, inspired me to start concocting adventures of my own.
Flung to a faraway world, thrown against man and beast, John Carter must risk al ...more
Flung to a faraway world, thrown against man and beast, John Carter must risk al ...more
A revisit to my fantasy infested teenage years and it was actually great fun. We all know the story of the man transported to Mars and his adventures. What struck me most this time was the relatively complex vocabulary and sentence structures in this "pulp" novel. It is clear that readers from 1912 definitely were more advanced in their ability to tackle novels compared to the present. Anyways, great fun to traverse this terrain and not surprisingly much better (yet similar) to the film from 201
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This is the first time i`ve read this and loved it seeing as it celebrated its 100 anniversary not long ago, the ideas that went into this are epic and you can see the influence it has had on starwars and the rest. Olde style adventure at its best i `m defintely going to read the rest of the series.
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Some fun ideas and tropes to play with in, say, a role-playing game but if there is evidence of Burroughs being a great writer...this isn't it. John Carter reads like kind of a man-child/psychopath, to be honest, especially later in the book when he keeps going on about all the people he'd happily kill to be with the alien princess he fell in love with for reasons that are hard to grasp other than "She cute".
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I read these originally in my teens, and fell in love with the fantasy world on Mars.
Modern authors don't write like this anymore.
Great series read them all, they have small print so their not as short as they look. ...more
Modern authors don't write like this anymore.
Great series read them all, they have small print so their not as short as they look. ...more
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