{"id":21585,"date":"2011-07-14T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=21585"},"modified":"2011-07-14T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:34:48","slug":"book-review-a-princess-of-mars-by-edgar-rice-burroughs-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/book-review-a-princess-of-mars-by-edgar-rice-burroughs-1912.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>A Princess of Mars<\/a> by Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been some years since I read “A Princess of Mars.” It’s old school fun, like munching on Fritos … and, like Fritos, there are some less healthy bits — starting with brutal Apache savages, segueing into brutal Apache\/African Proxy Savages in the form of the Green Martians. But leaving aside the period racism (countered a bit by the Red Martians being an amalgam of races), the rest is a ripping tale of mysticism, romance, and two-fisted adventure. It’s hampered a bit by some period stiffness in the writing style, but, by gad, it will make a fine movie some day (with CG thoats!).<\/p>\n

Not feeling so enthused by the book (free for the Kindle) that I’m interested in reading the rest of the series. But I can imagine doing so some time in the future …<\/p>\n

View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

(I read this back in April and wrote a review on Goodreads, but apparently didn’t mirror that here on the blog. Consider that corrected.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs My rating: 3 of 5 stars It’s been some years since I read “A Princess of Mars.” It’s old school fun, like munching on Fritos … and, like Fritos, there are some less healthy bits — starting with brutal Apache savages, segueing into brutal Apache\/African Proxy Savages … Continue reading “Book Review: “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21583,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/a-first-trailer-for-john-carter.html","url_meta":{"origin":21585,"position":0},"title":"A first trailer for “John Carter”","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Jul-11 5:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is ... interesting. 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