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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
A ship-wrecked westerner on a tropical island becomes a kind of action hero, and meets his future wife.
This was not a bad read and fairly short. Of course there was lots of making allowances for the time. There was a lot of contrasting levels of "civilisation" and "savagery" which had some old-fashioned notions. There was a bit of racism too.
The fact that the eponymous "cave girl" who our hero falls for, turns out to be a long-lost heiress, not just a white westerner but a titled Lady says something about the book's sensibilities on this issue.
There's also some of the usual nonsense of the bookish weakling who discovers himself when he has to be an outdoorsy man surviving off the land and becoming a hunter and a fighter.
It was a curiosity read based on the author and the title. I'm happy to have read it but I doubt I would re-read it.
This was not a bad read and fairly short. Of course there was lots of making allowances for the time. There was a lot of contrasting levels of "civilisation" and "savagery" which had some old-fashioned notions. There was a bit of racism too.
There's also some of the usual nonsense of the bookish weakling who discovers himself when he has to be an outdoorsy man surviving off the land and becoming a hunter and a fighter.
It was a curiosity read based on the author and the title. I'm happy to have read it but I doubt I would re-read it.
Racist (duh) but I liked it better than Tarzan, actually. A sissy mama's boy get stuck in the middle of nowhere, and ends up bettering himself, saving the girl, and *of course* she has a noble background, like all classist, elitist, novels of the day. How else were you going to get that tang of forbidden and taboo romance resolved satisfactorily?
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.
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.