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Title: John Carter of Mars!
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Published: Mar 17, 2012
Author: YouTube
Post Date: 2012-03-17 13:38:50 by Turtle
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Poster Comment: The first novel I ever read was Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Fighting Man of Mars." Although this is called "John Carter" it is clearly the first novel in the series, "A Princess of Mars." It took a long time for SFX to get this good. And while I rarely go to the movies these days I am going to see this.
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#3. To: Turtle (#0)
I read them all too Turtle, and I saw the flick with my son. I know it's a box office bomb, but it was well worth $6.00 to me to escape reality for 2.5 hours.
I read "A Fighting Man of Mars" 20 times when I was 12, until my copy fell completely apart.
It turns out there were eleven. I don't recall reading that many, but then again, it was many moons ago.
I've read them all (except the last one which I believe was patched together after his death) multiple times. Good memories. Woola his dog. His loyal friend Tars Tarkas. And of course The Incomparable Dejah Thoris.
Cripes O_I, you nailed those names w/o Google? My wig is off to you, sir.
Oh, I just loved those books as a kid - I've read most of them two or three times including the comic book ones. And I'm blessed with a good memory, but thanks. I've also read maybe the first ten Tarzan books and the immortal Lord Greystoke a.k.a. Tarzan of the Apes. A lot of reprints of the Golden Age of Science Fiction came out while I was growing up - in my grade school years and on into my teens so I've read a lot of the classics of the genre - including the novelized stories of "The Shadow" - Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha. The novels were actually much better than the radio program. And of course one could not leave out the prototypical superman - "The Man of Bronze" - Doc Savage.
You sure do have a good memory, and yes on Tarzan. I read them with great pleasure. Johnny Weissmuller gave Tarzan justice on early TeeVee, but I'm dating myself heavily with that reference :)
You would have really dated yourself if you had claimed to have seen him in first run movies. I think for that we need Cyni.
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#4. To: Jethro Tull, Prefrontal Vortex (#3)
I read them all too Turtle, and I saw the flick with my son. I know it's a box office bomb, but it was well worth $6.00 to me to escape reality for 2.5 hours.
#8. To: Turtle (#4)
The turning point for Burroughs came in 1910, when he began writing for pulp magazines. A story called Under the Moons of Mars, which introduced the hero John Carter, was his first professional sale, published in 1912. All of Carter’s adventures were published in book form in 1917 as A Princess of Mars - the series eventually swelled to eleven titles. Burroughs’s other popular series included the Carson of Venus books, Pellucidar, and The Land that Time Forgot.
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#19. To: Jethro Tull, Cynicom (#17)
You sure do have a good memory, and yes on Tarzan. I read them with great pleasure. Johnny Weissmuller gave Tarzan justice on early TeeVee, but I'm dating myself heavily with that reference :)
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