The Warlord of Mars
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Average rating3.9
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Ratings10
Average rating3.9
If you don't know the work of Burroughs, you don't know science fiction!
This is the first of about 13 books in the "Martian series" featuring John Carter of Virginia.
How Carter gets to Mars in the first place makes me wonder if Burroughs took peyote.
His writing is so descriptive that he easily creates a world, several races of people, a language, an architecture, a menagerie of beasts, exotic weapons, airships, and a chess game! None of this is apparent in the title. Forget the stuff they are calling sic-fi these days; this is the real thing! Oh yeah, Burroughs also did five books about a guy named Carson on Venus, and 26 Tarzan novels.
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I can't help but enjoy this book, seemingly an end to a trilogy, despite its many flaws. Apparently, one can get used to the originally eyeball-rolling first-person self-praise.
Book 3 continues after the end of the previous 2, and features non-stop action where John Carter travelled from the south pole to the unexplored north pole, chasing after villains who kidnapped his wife. If anything, the third book is even more exaggerated than the previous two.
The action just kept coming. And I just kept reading and enjoying it, despite a whole host of physically impossible situations and a plethora of convenient conveniences. For example, John Carter survived nine days without food and water.
But I can't help enjoying it, even as my mind registered the unrealistic things. It's like watching a really exciting cartoon. The moment I got that frame of mind, it was enjoyment all the way.
