The John Carter of Mars Collection [Kindle Edition]

Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author)

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Product Description

John Carter of Mars is a series of books written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is currently being turned into a film produced by Pixar and directed by Andrew Stanton (director of the critically acclaimed WALL-E and Finding Nemo)

The first three books in the series were told from the point of view of John Carter; many books followed the first three, but frequently were written in third person. The entire series is eleven volumes and titled the “Barsoom” series.

This Kindle book contains the first three books in the series.

From the Publisher

This book is in Electronic Paperback Format. If you view this book on any of the computer systems below, it will look like a book. Simple to run, no program to install. Just put the CD in your CDROM drive and start reading. The simple easy to use interface is child tested at pre-school levels.

Windows 3.11, Windows/95, Windows/98, OS/2 and MacIntosh and Linux with Windows Emulation.

Includes Quiet Vision's Dynamic Index. the abilty to build a index for any set of characters or words.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 843 KB
• Publisher: Kindle Editions (January 3, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001P3PQBY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,146 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #8 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Anthologies
  • #8 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Anthologies
  • #21 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Fiction Classics

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83 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This glass is not half empty, January 21, 2000

By 

Michael Morrow "ghek_the_kaldane" (West Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: John Carter of Mars Collection (CD-ROM)

The John Carter of Mars Series is my all time favorite Science Fiction series...and its nice to see it collected on a cd rom...but this is really only part one as there are eleven novels in the full series and only the first five are on the cd rom. (#6 The Master Mind of Mars, #7 A Fighting Man of Mars, #8 Swords of Mars, #9 Synthetic Men of Mars, #10 Llana of Gathol, #11 John Carter of Mars..are not included.) The first three books, A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars and Warlord of Mars form a trilogy, so its good to have them together. Barsoom is a strange place, where martians have been genetically altered to bear eggs instead of live young, where the honor code requires meeting an oppoenent with a sword instead of your ray (radium projectal) gun if that is all he has. Where a lifespan of 1000 years is considered normal and no one dies a natural death. Where the navy consists of airships and oxegen is produced in a giant plant to keep all alive on "dying Mars". Back in 1912 with the first novel, ERB produced a world that was a fresh and exciting then as it still is now.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This fascinating Chronicle has it all!, July 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: John Carter of Mars Collection (CD-ROM)

This book follows the adventures of John Carter, a cowboy who finds himself upon Mars. A Princess of Mars is the first in a series of magical, mythical, colorful books detailing the generations of martians Carter has affected. This story has action, adventure, sci-fi, romance, comedy, and a style all its own. Burroughs describes Barsoom (Mars) so completely, the reader can almost taste the atmosphere and see the sea bottoms and villages. It's remarkably easy reading, even with the introduction of an entirely different vocabulary, the martian vocabualry. It's a page-turner all the way through the series.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Burrough's Best, December 23, 2009

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Daniel E. Waitkoss "movie/book madman" (Saint Charles, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The John Carter of Mars Collection (Kindle Edition)

Yeah, there are more titles in the whole series, but the first three make a full novel with the story of John Carter's arrival, his almost "super-human" abilities to jump and fight, and his undying love love for the incomparable Dejah Thoris. You have seen it all before, but the power of Burrough's vision and the details of the world of Barsoom show how good ERB could write when the spirit moved him. These three books are far superior to the others of the series and, let's face it, you can't beat the cost at about a buck. I hate to sound like a brown-noser, but Amazon has a winner with its prices and the Kindle.