tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post3754418880494742950..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: Me Tarzan You NobodyEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-22558228894743853712007-03-09T08:34:00.000-08:002007-03-09T08:34:00.000-08:00As a teenager I devoured everything by Burroughs, ...As a teenager I devoured everything by Burroughs, but especially his John Carter stories. I’ve paid homage to them myself with a couple of novels. For just sheer fun I’m not sure his first three Barsoom books have been topped. To Patrick Shawn Bagley, I’m with you brother. Carter could ape Burroughs a lot better than he could Howard. And I think De Camp was just too civilized.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-15867908279309463202007-02-15T10:13:00.000-08:002007-02-15T10:13:00.000-08:00I hadn't thought to read Edgar Rice Burroughs. You...I hadn't thought to read Edgar Rice Burroughs. You piqued my interest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-74403791821312781422007-02-15T05:31:00.000-08:002007-02-15T05:31:00.000-08:00Books for innocents sums it up pretty well. I reme...Books for innocents sums it up pretty well. I remember loving the Burroughs Mars series as a yoot (and the Frank Frazetta illustrations of scantily clad Red Martian babes didn't hurt the appeal to a horny fourteen year old). However, I tried to get my own fifteen year old anime obsessed son interested in them. He brought them back, saying, "dad, this guy SUCKS." I started to reread them, my older and more jaded tastes recoiled at Burroughs' overheated prose and cardboard characters, and I had to admit, he had a point.JD Rhoadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07123361739160525998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-66911290815303448052007-02-15T04:22:00.000-08:002007-02-15T04:22:00.000-08:00To veer slightly off topic: I'm glad I can finally...To veer slightly off topic: I'm glad I can finally read Conan and Solomon Kane stories the way Robert E. Howard wrote them instead of some watered down version edited by, or "posthumous collaboration" with, Lin Carter and Sprague de Camp (which, unfortunately, is all that was available when I started reading them in the late '70s).Patrick Shawn Bagleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14832860010935241958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-42593899431795781232007-02-14T21:10:00.000-08:002007-02-14T21:10:00.000-08:00I could tell you exactly where I was when I read t...I could tell you exactly where I was when I read the opening chapter of A PRINCESS OF MARS more than forty years ago. There's got to be something there for it to stick in somebody's head for that long. It's one of the best opening chapters I've ever read and makes it almost impossible not to keep reading.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.com