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Okay. Who else read these books when they were a kid?

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Eoraptor1

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Disney is releasing a live action movie version of Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rf55GTEZ_E

I posted a comment on YouTube pointing out that John Carter predated Dune and Conan the Barbarian, but I think it was vetoed by the Disney people because I also pointed out that Avatar lifted many situational points from Alan Dean Foster's Midworld. I'm not the first to point this out, but I expect they're sensitive about it.

JAMES
 
Still got the set.

Think Avatar also lifted stuff from Anne MaCafferey Pern series.

Collin:ernae:
 
Collin said:
Still got the set.

Think Avatar also lifted stuff from Anne MaCafferey Pern series.
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I concur with that. Anne's Pern series is among my favorites and it seems Avatar did have some similar elements. Of course, it's damned difficult to write anything that isn't in some sense derivitave of what one has read before.

It wasn't until I reached my late teens when it finally occurred to me that John's girlfriend/lover/wife Dejah Thoris was an ovipositor (egg layer), thus he had been doing the nasty with a bug! Eeeww! :icon_lol:

I'm currently reading S.M. Stirling's wonderful Change series. Tracking down all of the volumes via interlibrary loan so I can read them in sequence is challenging!

Just received the latest book from Raymond E. Feist: "A Kingdom Besieged: Book One of the Chaoswar Saga."

I'm anxiously awaiting David Weber's third book in the Multiverse series. Hells's Gate and Hell Hath No Fury have left me hanging...

There's just so much to read, I can't keep up! :ernae:
 
Whaddya mean "when they were a kid" ??? I still read some of them at 70. Timeless and classic aren't hollow words, ya knows.

Yep, wanted to go there and still would take it in a heartbeat.

:guinness: :medals:
 
Eoraptor1 said:
I posted a comment on YouTube pointing out that John Carter predated Dune and Conan the Barbarian, but I think it was vetoed by the Disney people because I also pointed out that Avatar lifted many situational points from Alan Dean Foster's Midworld. I'm not the first to point this out, but I expect they're sensitive about it.

JAMES
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Your comment is still visible... ;)
 
Oh yea!! I just was reading A Princess of Mars last week..
I also have the complete series
Finally, I always hoped someone might make a movie of this..
Too COOL..
 
MGM bought the rights to the Pern series back in the '70's. Been hoping , now that the technology is there to pull it off. I love the Michael Whelan paintings for the covers. Very Maxfield Parish. When I saw an avatar ad first time out of the corner of the eye , my hopes soared. For a 10th of a nanosecond. I finally forced myself to sit through that dog... Its better with the sound off. The production technology is fascinating, but-GAAK- the writing would make Hugo Gernsback retch. What can you say. Hollyweird thinks Aston Kutcher is an actor, too. The really horrid part of the whole avatar thing is the leaf creatures painting them selves blue and making a complete nuisance of themselves on the west side, frequently requiring SAR to go haul their blue arses out of trouble, and wasting the legislatures time with asinine petitions to re-name Catherderal Grove, Carmanah, Queen Charlottes ect as avatar this or that. As if we can't get enough of that foolishness from the denizens of the unclaimed territories of Hi'dia gwa, or el guapo or what ever it is this month... Whadda ya do.:sleep:
 
Collin said:
Still got the set.

Think Avatar also lifted stuff from Anne MaCafferey Pern series.

Collin:ernae:
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You know, that didn't occur to me until you pointed it out, but I can definitely see the parallels. My old roommate met Anne McCaffrey in LA when he was living out there. I didn't get to the coast for years later, but that, as they say, is another story...


JAMES

PS No one called you to model the Barsoom air-ships?
 
I would still be re-reading them today, but years ago my now (ex)wife decided to make a couple of bucks and sold my collection at a yard sale.
another reason she makes a good ex-wife... :icon_lol:
 
paiken said:
A Piglet designed 'Thopter would be completely ultra cool
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A Piglet onithopter and a Collin Air-Ship. That would be BEAST!!! What would the air files be like?

ATTN: HouseHobbit,

You know better than to be popping on strange rings and diasappearing. That cannot turn out well. If you go really bad I may have to form a coalition to oppose you. Sword, bow, and axe. Elendil!!! Furthermore, on Earth John Carter is no stronger than you are. Have you ever read The League of Extrordinary Gentlemen? In these books the Martian invasion in War of the Worlds occurs because John Carter kicks them off Mars.

JAMES
 
Eoraptor1 said:
A Piglet onithopter and a Collin Air-Ship. That would be BEAST!!! What would the air files be like?

ATTN: HouseHobbit,

You know better than to be popping on strange rings and diasappearing. That cannot turn out well. If you go really bad I may have to form a coalition to oppose you. Sword, bow, and axe. Elendil!!! Furthermore, on Earth John Carter is no stronger than you are. Have you ever read The League of Extrordinary Gentlemen? In these books the Martian invasion in War of the Worlds occurs because John Carter kicks them off Mars.

JAMES
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:icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
I'm out of here!!
On goes the Ring..:pop4:

Great! I can't see my feets Now!!
Where is John Carter when I need him..
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I still wanna know what leg a six-legged dog cocks against a tree......:icon_lol:

Airships are Tango Romeo's department.

regards Collin:ernae:
 
Found this series of books at a small bookstore in Shreve City (Shreveport, LA) in the '70s. The entire series of 11 books had been released as a 3 volume box set and the single volumes. Bought the 3 vol boxset on a Friday, finished it by Sunday and went back on Monday and bought the rest of the books. It's still one of my favorite series (outside of the Robert E. Howard Conan books) to reread. Great stuff!

Also being published as a comic book with Dejah Thoris getting her own book.
 
:kilroy:Anyone up for a game of Jetan?

Or does anyone have some spare radium bullets? I always like that one. A pistol that packed the punch of a field gun.

Yeah, I still have the complete set of paperbacks I bought new back in the '70s.

Then again I still have the whole Burroughs collection.:d
 
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