Happy Birthday, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sep. 1st, 2006 06:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomOn this date in 1875.
Do you have any favorite ERB books? For me, the raw power of the first two Tarzan novels is equalled only by A Princess of Mars. But, y'know something? It's been a long time since I read any of 'em. [sigh] Guess I'll just have to go back.... ;)
Do you have any favorite ERB books? For me, the raw power of the first two Tarzan novels is equalled only by A Princess of Mars. But, y'know something? It's been a long time since I read any of 'em. [sigh] Guess I'll just have to go back.... ;)
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 11:51 am (UTC)Also, as i started reading some of the more obscure titles and it seemed like all of the same old plots were being recycled, I found The Oakdale Affair, which had one of the most unexpected plot twists in the ending that I've run across. Really fun book.
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Date: 2006-09-01 11:51 am (UTC)I never read any of the Tarzan books and his Venus and Pellicdur (sp?) never ddid much for me.
But Mars...
How many nights have I searched out the red war god and looked longingly toward it, knowing, just knowing, on the other side of the vastness wait a handsome Virginian and his incomparable Princess...
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Date: 2006-09-01 12:23 pm (UTC)That said, I have quite a few of the thin paperback versions of the John Carter books at home. ^_^
Now I just have to scan them in and put them on my Newton...
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Date: 2006-09-01 12:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 12:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 01:18 pm (UTC)I'm not the only geek! I'm not the only geek!
I stiffened mine with glue to make them stand up.
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Date: 2006-09-01 01:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 07:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 01:02 pm (UTC)What I like about Carson is that, while he is a genius, he's a screwup. He is not a particularly great fighter. He's not especially brave. And Duare is the second best female character he has ever written (right after Barbara Harding in the Mucker). In most of ERB's books, the main female character is a plot device. Duare is a real person.
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Date: 2006-09-01 02:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 05:25 pm (UTC)Come to think of it, I haven't tackled any of the Mars books. A couple early McClurg editions of 'Return of...' and 'Son Of...' (with those wonderful, incredible J. Allen St. John illustrations) are in my collection. I think it's time to add some more.
The thing about Burroughs is that he's not necessarily a great writer--or even a good writer, sometimes--but he's a fascinating writer. You have to turn the page to see what happens next.
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Date: 2006-09-01 07:11 pm (UTC)The one I remember most immediately is Carson of Venus, for its Nazism spoof (Maltu Mephis!). But, oh yes, I'll be going back as well...
Hail the Mars of E.R. Burroughs
Where he ploughed his well-trod furrows
It may not be Dune or Urras
But it's good enough for me!