| Blake Walker | 26 Jul 2014 3:16 p.m. PST |
link Review of The Martian Tales Trilogy by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Regards,
Blake |
| tsofian | 26 Jul 2014 6:30 p.m. PST |
Nice review, thanks My only question has always been-How many times can one freaking Princess get kidnapped anyway? |
| GypsyComet | 27 Jul 2014 8:17 a.m. PST |
In that trilogy? Fewer times than you might think. |
| Cacique Caribe | 27 Jul 2014 11:23 a.m. PST |
That does it! I'm finally going to read them. I'll just have to load those on my iPad, so I can read them in nice large print. :) Dan |
| jpattern2 | 27 Jul 2014 12:09 p.m. PST |
They're definitely worth reading. And they read fast, too. |
| Dave Crowell | 27 Jul 2014 5:28 p.m. PST |
There are eleven books total in the Mars series. I think these three became a "trilogy" when they slipped into the public domain. Burroughs certainly had a vivid imagination. |
| Sobieski | 28 Jul 2014 4:20 a.m. PST |
I was always bothered by how many of his villains were called Alexander (or variants thereof). It's so obviously a hero's name. |
 Dye4minis  | 28 Jul 2014 11:59 a.m. PST |
I went to see all the titles of this series as I bought a "collectible" a few years ago. Indeed, all I could find were 11 titles. Mine is a 1947, very limited (80 copies in hardback) printing of "The Warlord of Mars". Funny, the outside cover says "The Warlords of Mars". (Never been read!) I enjoyed the recent movie so much I am tempted to read the book. The story line was great. |
| Harbadix | 29 Jul 2014 4:53 a.m. PST |
I have been a fan of the Barsoom stories for many years, well worth reading. I loved the film also but you do have to tkae it as a seperate piece of work in its own right as there are a lot of things wrong with it if compared to the books but as I said, taken in its own right I loved the film |
| Bob Runnicles | 29 Jul 2014 6:20 a.m. PST |
Same here, enjoyed the books, loved the movie. Very sad that it bombed at the box office so badly, I think Disney's marketing department should be shot for the botch job they did with John Carter. |
| mrinku | 01 Aug 2014 1:04 p.m. PST |
Princess-Gods-Warlord are a trilogy, in the sense that the first was left with a potential lead in to further books (Burroughs had no idea if it would be successful, or if there *would* be any other books) and the other two were written as a two volume plot to continue the story of John and Dejah. It can be seen as one arc, though I tend to treat it as a first novel plus duology. After these the protagonists change from John Carter for most of the rest of the series, so there's that reason also to threat them as a group of three. One of my great loves. Also loved the film and was not impressed by the marketing hack job. Could they have made a *worse* poster? |
| Curufea | 03 Aug 2014 4:58 p.m. PST |
I thought the John Carter movie was the VSF equivalent of Star Wars – it really was that fun. |
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