dinosaurhorrorshow's review against another edition
5.0
I loved it!
Edgar Rice Burroughs is amazing.
I'm glad he wrote so many books, but I will be sad when I run out of them to read.
He was writing sci-fi way before his time. His books have an extreme cheesiness to them, but that's what makes them amazing. It's like Burroughs tried to pack as much adventure and danger as he could into his stories to make them as epic as possible.
And his main characters are always the most badass people possible and they can never fail, and even when they get themselves into a tough situation they always get out of it untouched and save the day.
I actually discovered E.R.B when I was at the bookstore and I saw the cover for A Princess of Mars and bought it just cause it looked and sounded so cheesy. And then it ended up being one of my favorite books.
The Cave Girl (like most of ERB's books) have the most lovable characters, and is full of adventure and edge of your seat suspense.
Edgar Rice Burroughs is amazing.
I'm glad he wrote so many books, but I will be sad when I run out of them to read.
He was writing sci-fi way before his time. His books have an extreme cheesiness to them, but that's what makes them amazing. It's like Burroughs tried to pack as much adventure and danger as he could into his stories to make them as epic as possible.
And his main characters are always the most badass people possible and they can never fail, and even when they get themselves into a tough situation they always get out of it untouched and save the day.
I actually discovered E.R.B when I was at the bookstore and I saw the cover for A Princess of Mars and bought it just cause it looked and sounded so cheesy. And then it ended up being one of my favorite books.
The Cave Girl (like most of ERB's books) have the most lovable characters, and is full of adventure and edge of your seat suspense.
jaironside's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not sure this was supposed to be quite as funny as I found it but Rice Burroughs can certainly keep you turning pages. Enjoyable, undemanding and considering it was published in 1925 not nearly as sexist or racist as I expected. Only a couple of cringeworthy can't believe you wrote that moments and they were included in ignorance based on the time it was writen. There are books written today which are much more prejudiced. It's fascinating watching the evolution of sci-fi as a genre.
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