![]() Ti fa rivivere quella splendida ingenuità che si prova solo da bambini, rivivi i tempi di quando ancora non si sapeva nulla dell’effettivo aspetto di Marte e quindi si potevano creare scenari fantasiosamente spettacolari. Le situazioni sono molto inverosimili, John Carter (guerrafondaio assettato di sangue) si butta nei conflitti senza porsi il problema di chi abbia ragione e ovviamente finisce dalla parte dei buoni (o meno cattivi) c’è un concentrato di eventi favorevoli che capitano al momento giusto per salvare il nostro eroe da situazioni più che disperate.Ĭi sono descrizioni (soprattutto quelle delle battaglie) lente, lunghe e noiose.Į i pregi? Beh, superate le lungaggini, rimangono comunque storie appassionanti, dove il classico eroe è insuperabile, proprio perché gli eventi girano sempre a suo favore, che fa di tutto per proteggere la donna amata, super indifesa e preda di tutti i cattivi a cui capita a tiro è pieno d’inventiva (ad un certo punto è descritto quello che potrebbe essere considerato il prototipo di un navigatore). ![]() Partiamo dai difetti: i personaggi sono piuttosto superficiali, basta, per esempio, una sola parola per convincere anche il tizio che fino a cinque minuti prima era super cattivo e spregevole a diventare un eroe santo e a rinnegare tutti i suoi (sbagliati) ideali. Tre romanzi figli del loro tempo e la loro età si vede tutta. Libro letto per curiosità e perchè volevo chiarire alcuni dubbi nati dopo aver visto il film scopo parzialmente raggiunto. They're still arguing when I finish the book. ![]() You're kind of proving my point here."ĭevil: "And warriors with six limbs and green skin and no emotions that go around killing everyone."ĭevil: "Carter gets to ride through the desert on an eight-legged thoat."Īngel: "These books are all horribly sexist as well, by the way."ĭevil: "He fights plant-men that eat people."ĭevil: "He has a telepathic ten-legged dog!" Plus there are evil pirates that live beside an underground sea and go on the rampage in flying ships."Īngel: "Evil pirates with black skin. The devil says, "Yeah, I know, but he can jump really high. Even before he gets to Mars, the whole shtick with John Carter is that he's a proud soldier of the Confederate Army." The angel says, "No but seriously, I'm not kidding. The devil at my left shoulder says, "Yeah, but it's got loads of cool aliens and sword fights and weird palaces and stuff." The angel at my right peers over my shoulder to see what I'm reading and says, "Christ on a bike, this shit is really racist." The author of Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Burroughs did not confine himself to a single genre he also wrote medieval romances ( The Outlaw of Torn, 1914), westerns ( The War Chief of the Apaches, 1927), and mainstream novels ( The Girl from Hollywood, 1922). Hailing from a well-to-do family, Burroughs was given an aristocratic education steeped in Latin and Greek, but he was drawn more to an itinerant life of adventure than to a life in the boardroom. By the end of the trilogy the Martians all clamor for a triumphant John Carter to be their king.īorn in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs grew to maturity during the height of the Industrial Revolution and witnessed the emergence of the United States as a twentieth-century world power. In the third book, Warlord of Mars, Carter overcomes the forces of evil that would destroy the planet. The excitement continues in The Gods of Mars when Carter engages the Black Pirates in airborne combat above the dead seas of Mars and leads a revolt to free the Martian races from a religion that thrives on living sacrifices. In the first installment, Carter wins the affections of the "princess of Mars" and the respect of the Martian warlords whom he befriends. Hero John Carter proves himself against deadly foes in The Martian Trilogy. ![]() When it rains in a Burroughs novel, the reader gets wet." - Science-fiction writer Jack McDevittĬombining otherworldly adventures with elements of classical myth, fast-paced plots with cliffhanging tension, and imaginative fantasy with vivid prose, Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Martian Tales Trilogy helped define a new literary genre emerging in the early twentieth century that would become known as science fiction.
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