8/4/2023 0 Comments Barsoom early illustrators![]() ![]() The main characters of the first four books were active they looked to do things when put in the situations they encountered. ![]() ![]() Of the five books, the fifth is I think the weakest of the set, in that it contained alot of the problems as the fourth book, and gave us a main character that was such a departure from the ones in what came before hand. It's like the author hit a word count and then wrapped up the rest as quickly as possible in the last two pages. Also the fourth and fifth books just end. We go from a character that has a view point closer to that of the reader, in that they're both new to the setting of the story, to two different characters that have been raised in the setting. I think the series lost something when the main character changed for the last two books in this five book collection. (Well, OK, so I only added that sentence to qualify for a super review!) On Barsoom, men are real men, women are real women, and giant green four-armed people with antennae and eyes on the sides of their heads are real giant green four-armed people with antennae and eyes on the sides of their heads. These stories straddle the boundaries between science, fantasy and weird fiction in their flavour, but never lack a healthy dose (some might say an overdose!) of good old-fashioned swashbuckling romance. But the thing that keeps you reading is Burrough's raw, unrestrained creativity, and the passion and excitement that comes through in his writing. The plots get a bit samey after a while - let's face it there's only so far you can stretch the 'impossibly muscular, combat-worthy rough-diamond hero chases across half the world to rescue his impossibly-beautiful-but-feisty princess' theme before it gets a bit tired. It's astonishing to think that Burroughs wrote the first of these highly imaginative tales in 1911. A series of rip-roaring, thigh-slapping, red-blooded (and sometimes green-blooded) pulp adventure yarns within Burrough's vividly imagined Martian setting of Barsoom. ![]()
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