The Barsoom series was a favorite of Carl Sagan who, in his landmark television series, Cosmos mentioned his youthful desire to visit Mars as had John Carter. After reading the excellent adventure, A Princess of Mars, I understand the strange pull of Barsoom.
The story is in the best tradition of "swords and stars" pulp in which a fighting man of Earth finds adventure, danger, battle, honor and romance against the harsh Martian landscape. It is fast paced and well written. I was scarcely able to put this book down until I had finished it. And I felt the pull of Barsoom drawing me to The Gods Of Mars almost immediately afterwards.
There are some stereotypes and prejudices that must be taken in context of the era in which the work was written. Otherwise, one finds oneself turning pages at a ferocious rate.
A Princess of Mars is an excellent start to a series that should appeal to fans of adventure and science fiction alike. There is a reason it has remained on bookshelves for so many years.
I love this book. It has a special place in my heart and I will read it again.
Lots of fun and a very engaging read!
Well it was hard to get through the first two chapters, but after that I couldn't stop reading it! Very enthralling, when you start reading this book, you will actually feel that you are there in Mars watching the action and seeing the plot unfold! Download this now!! You'll never regret it!
Our book club chooses 2 classics a year. We read Princess last fall and had a total blast with it. Sit back, relax, enjoy the Old Ways, you're in for a Ride.
carte destul de interesanta, dar strabatuta de acel avant initial al S-F-ului catre eroii nemaipomeniti, adaptarea eroului mult prea rapida
A surprisingly good book. ERB writes of conceptions that you'll see in everything following it that deals with Mars. Everything from Total Recall to various animes directly or indirectly borrow from the original ideas of an inhabited Mars as invisioned by ERB. The story is highly recommended and by the time you finish it, you'll be begging for the next in the series.
A grand adventure. Clearly the best of the 'Barsoom' series. It is interesting to see how much ERB viewed of a classic, sterotyped, gentile, chivalrous, gentlemen of the old southern civil war era and then transplanted him into a very different culture. While his idea of transplanting a 'human' into another alien world or culture was used by him several other times, it is more interesting to reflect how his way of doing this type adventure plot was later used by other writers. Before you read other such stories or go further in other such series, read this book first. While you should not really try to read to much high philsophy or literature into pulp tales, it makes for interesting reflection to seek out the influence of ERB in the works of later adventure writers.
This is still one of the best written scifi stories ever - although it takes a bit of effort to adjust to the old english.
A classic sci-fi/fantasy book. ERB is a great writer. Simple to read and lots of fast fun and action. Many days I dreamed of being John Carter on Mars...
Have not read this title yet but it souns neet
