Love the Amtor Article

by Dylan
(Illinois, Wisconsin )

Edgar Rice Burroughs will always be our patron saint. I think I would enjoy it if the team (Zendexor, Harlei, and Stid) provided their views on a few of the specific books from each of Burrough's series. What are the strengths of A Princess of Mars versus Warlord of Mars? Pirates of Venus vs. Wizard of Venus? I'd like to know what the boys think.
Blessings,
Dylan

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Feb 06, 2016
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by: Zendexor

Well, maybe I'll give Thuvia a couple of extra points. Four out of ten; how about that? But four's my limit - else I'd be unfair to the other books!
Feb 05, 2016
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by: Dylan

Oh man, no love for Thuvia? I can't say I disagree, it is decidedly the weakest entry in the series. But a two out of ten? Explain yourself, friend!
Feb 05, 2016
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by: Zendexor

I have noted the comment for future action.
Possibly the best approach would be (initially at any rate) rather autobiographical than analytic. The analytic would proceed from the autobiographical...
With both the Amtor and the Barsoom series, my first encounter was somewhere in the middle of the saga, not the beginning. "A Fighting Man of Mars" (book seven in a series of ten) and "Carson of Venus" (book three in a series of four) were my introductions. This is because in those days - long before the Internet - ERB's works were harder to find. And for a long time I found no more, and kept re-reading those two. This may be why they are my favourites. On the other hand, it may be that I was lucky. I could make a case for them really being unusually excellent representatives of their respective series.
And that reflects credit on ERB as a writer: rather than merely exploiting an initial success, fobbing the readers off with material of decreasing quality, he continued to mine new seams of literary gold in his Barsoom and Amtor concepts as time went on.
Very crudely, assessing my personal reaction, I might say of the Barsoom series that ERB scored 10 out of 10 in books 2,6,7,8,9 and 10, 7 out of ten in books 1 and 3, 6 out of 10 in book 5 and about 2 out of 10 in book 4.
Then would come the more objective task of justifying these judgements...

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