A review by pixelorchid
Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.0

Not Burroughs best work. Some of his works have aged well and are still enjoyable despite the inherent prejudices from the time period. This book reads like a repetetive chain of getting captured then saved by ridiculous coincidences. The last third of the book is a depressing tale of brutal imperialism where the native people are slaughtered and subdued by the vastly superior advanced military weaponry that was brought to the world by the protagonist. It becomes ironic that he talks extensively about how money is the root of all evil and will not allow it, yet he brings guns and cannons and full scale naval warfare to these people.