A Princess of Mars

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• Book Review: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Share

  A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a science-fiction book published in 1912. This is Burroughs' first published book and stars John Carter. The book is an escapist fantasy, and enjoyable tale which, if set on earth, could have been easily ... (read full critics)

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• A Princess of Mars

  Desert Isle Keeper Review A Princess of Mars In the story, John Carter, an inexplicably long-lived human who can't remember his own distant childhood, finds himself transported to Mars (called Barsoom by its inhabitants) via a mysterious method that' ... (read full critics)

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  So having seen the John Carter movie I really wanted to go back and re-read Princess of Mars. I really loved this series when I first read them about ten years ago and couldn't remember very much that happened and decided I had to go back and read them again. I really did enjoy Princess of Mars lots ... (continue)

  So having seen the John Carter movie I really wanted to go back and re-read Princess of Mars. I really loved this series when I first read them about ten years ago and couldn't remember very much that happened and decided I had to go back and read them again. I really did enjoy Princess of Mars lots. Because I'd just seen the film I was spending a lot of time thinking about what was different and what was the same. In the book the war between the humanoid Martians is much less important before the end. I was surprised that Dejah Thoris actually wasn't a fighter as well as scientist and princess and I had remembered her seriously kicking butt. But still she was pretty great. I also loved Sola even more this time around. She was a much stronger character than in the film. I loved that she was the Martian who had experienced love and loss and was more of an actual person than most of the characters in the book. I loved the way that John always knows he's on Mars and never wants to go back. It was very enjoyable to read again.

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  Discovering the beginning of fantasy/sci-fi pulp literature now after having been acquainted with its canons is a wonderful process of recognization. Seeing how many tropes this masterpiece of world literature has established is jolly marvelous, and the smoothness of the style, the elegance of the r ... (continue)

  Discovering the beginning of fantasy/sci-fi pulp literature now after having been acquainted with its canons is a wonderful process of recognization. Seeing how many tropes this masterpiece of world literature has established is jolly marvelous, and the smoothness of the style, the elegance of the rhetorical figures and choice of words, together with the naiveté this genre had at its beginning is a mix that refreshes the mind after the gloom of the postmodern literature. A must read.

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 160 Pages
• Edition: Reissue
• ISBN-10: 0345331389
• ISBN-13: 9780345331380
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Pub date: Dec 12, 1985
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Česká kniha, Polskie Książki

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