Llana of Gathol (Barsoom, #10)

Posted on 23 August 2018 by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Llana of Gathol is a collection of four novellas written in the Martian series of Edgar Rice Burroughs which was written for Amazing Stories in 1941 Llano, the daughter of Gahan of Gothol, is the perfect damsel in distress Llana of Gathol consists of four stories First The Ancient Dead originally The City of Mummies followed by The Black Pirates of Barsoom , Escape on Mars and finally Invisible Men of Mars The four books in this series is truly comprised of parody and satire These books are a good laugh with many futuristic encounters and wild characters. Read Llana of Gathol (Barsoom, #10) Author Edgar Rice Burroughs – kino-fada.fr Not really a 4 star book unless you really like ERB the Barsoom series This is one of the best in that series.I didn t realize that Burroughs was parodying himself until after I finished In hindsight, the parodic elements were certainly present three strange lost hidden secret cities, each with strict no leaving policies a damsel in distress that appears apparently on cue yet another poor deluded maid who falls head over heels for John Carter in time to render assistance in escape and a seeming conga line of swordmen each claiming to be the best of Barsoom for Carter to dramatically and extrava I didn t realize that Burroughs was parodying himself until after I finished In hindsight, the parodic elements were certainly present three strange lost hidden secret cities, each with strict no leaving policies a damsel in distress that appears apparently on cue yet another poor deluded maid who falls head over heels for John Carter in time to render assistance in escape and a seeming conga line of swordmen each claiming to be the best of Barsoom for Carter to dramatically and extravagantly crush But these elements are relatively subtle given the broad writing and genre It s hard to take the standard Burroughsian action up the requisite notch to make it satirical.The book is constructed of connected short fiction, and while this keeps things moving at quite a clip fifty pages to introd...This is an absolute joy Burroughs must have had enormous fun writing this because it is as full of adventure as a pudding is of raisins It is like reading one of the old movie series which would end with cliff hanger after cliff hanger Heroes are threatened with certain death beautiful, pure maidens are kidnapped and risk ravishment Swords clash airships are hi jacked pirates proliferate dead cities are not quite as dead as they look This is wonderful brain candy It redeems much of the This is an absolute joy Burroughs must have had enormous fun writing this because it is as ...Llana of Gathol is the 10th of 11 John Carter of Mars books that Edgar Rice Burroughs left to the world This book is comprised of four linked short tales that first appeared in Amazing Stories Magazine from March to October 1941 Each of these stories is around 50 pages in length and is made up of 13 very short chapters In the first tale, The Ancient Dead, John Carter goes for a spin in his flier to get away from it all, and winds up in the ancient Barsoomian city of Horz This long dead Llana of Gathol is the 10th of 11 John Carter of Mars books that Edgar Rice Burroughs left to the world This book is comprised of four linked short tales that first appeared in Amazing Stories Magazine from March to October 1941 Each of these stories is around 50 pages in length and is made up of 13 very short chapters In...Your enjoyment of LLANA OF GATHOL entirely depends on whether or not you can turn your brain off without losing all ability to be entertained Even by old school pulp sci fi standards, this book is dumb And yet, as with all John Carter novels, it possesses a certain kind of charm for anyone reading it for purely escapist reasons.LLANA OF GATHOL is composed of four inter connected novellas, each with the same basic story structure A strange new city is discovered, Llana is taken prisoner, and J Your enjoyment of LLANA OF GATHOL entirely depends on whether or not you can turn your brain off without losing all ability to be entertained Even by old school pulp sci fi standards, thi...Probably the weakest of the Barsoom series, as Edgar Rice Burroughs resorts to a bit of parody of his own earlier stories by casting John Carter s granddaughter, Llana, daughter of Tara Gahan of Gathol, in the role originally reserved for her grandmother, the incomparable Deja Thoris.These stories are not high art, or even good sci fi fantasy but they are terrific yarns with exotic Barsoomian locales, fantastic beasts, flamboyant princesses, dastardly villains, and cliff hanging adventu Probably the weakest of the Barsoom series, as Edgar Rice Burroughs resorts to a bit of parody of his own earlier stories by casting John Carter s granddaughter, Llana, daughter of Tara Gahan of Gathol, in the role originally reserved for her grandmother, the incomparable Deja Thoris.These stories are not high art, or even good sci fi fantasy but they are te...In this penultimate novel in the John Carter series, our hero discovers stillunknown tribes on the red planet The evil Hin Abtol, self described Jeddak of Jeddaks in the north, is bent on conquering all of Barsoom and claiming John Carter s grandaughter, Llana of Gathol in the bargain From the lost city of Horz, to a tribe that has created a pill to make themselves invisible, John Carter fights his way back to Helium with Llana in tow, meeting steadfast companions along the way.Another i In this penultimate novel in the John Carter series, our hero discovers stillunknown tribes on the red planet The evil Hin Abtol, self describ...This tale of Barsoom opens with an unidentified narrator relaxing on a Hawaiian beach, with one of his kin, John Carter, coming and telling the story of the titular character, Llana of Gathol, daughter of Gahan of Gathol and Tara of Helium The main action opens in one of the oldest and supposedly greatest dead cities of Barsoom, Horz, where John Carter, the narrator for the remai...It s possible that letting a somewhat random process choose which book I read has done me a disservice in this instance Normally, I d put aside books from a series until I have read the previous ones, but sometimes I get a sense that the story is less serialized, and that letting myself skip ahead a little won t be a big deal Starting the Barsoom series at 10 couldn t be so bad, right Well Reading through other reviewers who described this as a satire has fixed a lot of problems I had with t It s possible that letting a somewhat random p...It s hard for me to rate this book It is divided into 4 sections The first was arguably my favorite sequence in the entire series The 2nd and 3rd were good but the 4th was very bland and disappointing Had the book ended differentl...

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23 August 2018

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