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A review by jvan
Llana of Gathol by Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.0
Entertaining nonsense. There are four stories attempting to live together as a novel here, and it doesn't really work: each story is fine on its own but the idea that they create a narrative is silly. There's a faint throughline provided by a warlord attempting to seize the titular grand-daughter of John Carter of Mars and make her his eighth wife, but it's not enough. It would have been better if these had been individual stories, each with an intro and resolution of their own, instead of the ramshackle collection they form as published.
Still, there's fast action and some cleverness here, and I liked it. It's goofy to run into a 2nd colony of invisible Martians (especially when acting as if there had not been a first) but whatever. It's John Carter. You just read it and allow the ridiculousness to wash on over you and pass you by.
Still, there's fast action and some cleverness here, and I liked it. It's goofy to run into a 2nd colony of invisible Martians (especially when acting as if there had not been a first) but whatever. It's John Carter. You just read it and allow the ridiculousness to wash on over you and pass you by.