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Gord Green
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 Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:02 pm Post subject: ERB |
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I haven't seen much comment on this board about the pulp sci-fi novels of Edger Rice Burroughs.
Before I got into his Tarzan books I got hooked on his Mars/Barsoom series. I then moved to the Carson Napier-Venus series, the David Innes-Pellucidar series and his other stand alones.
I had to check out the mars and Venus series by Otis Adelbert Klein and whatever 30's 40's pulp sci-fi I could find.
I even hunted down old issues of Amazing to read the Shaver Mystery stories.
I know a few movies have been made from ERB's series, but have any of you read his writings?
I admit by today's standards they may seem juvenile, but they had an archaic , almost Victorian feel. |
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Bud Brewster
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I've read all the ERB books (some more than once) and I love the Frazetta artwork that brings them to life. 
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Custer
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| Librivox do have free audiobook versions, read by volunteers, of quite a few Edgar Rice Burroughs books - the preferred reader, I'd say, is Mark Nelson if you get offered a choice! |
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Bud Brewster
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Excellent! I've downloaded At the Earth's Core, and I look forward to listening to it. The data page just said "Read by: LibriVox Volunteers".
Maybe it identifies the reader in some other spot I didn't notice.
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Custer
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| The books do vary on that - one of the John Carter novels had a number of rather different readers taking turns on different chapters, which was slightly off-putting, but hey, it's free! |
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