I've been thinking ...

[ericcoleman]

Yeah I know ... not again ...

I need to get some of my Edgar Rice Burroughs books out of storage, I feel the urge to read some of them again.

What is your favorite character, book, series, whatever?

My favorites are the Venus books, mostly because, while brilliant, Carson Napier is a bit of a goof, and messes up an awful lot, making him a little more real than the perfect folk who tend to populate ERB's work.

Comments

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

I liked the Venus books myself. Never got into the Mars series for some reason. The whole "code of honor" they had on Mars struck me as irredeemably silly...look, if someone's coming at me with a sword, and all I've got is a radium pistol, I'm going to center-plug the son-of-a-bee, and the Devil take the rules that say I have to stand there and let him cut me down!

Did you ever read the "Harold Shea" story where Harold Shea goes to Burroughs' Mars? I'd love to know how De Camp got permission to do that.