John Carter chases his wife's kidnappers from pole to pole. Lots of fun, but not quite as good as book 2 (this is book 3). ( )

It's a while since I read this but from memory I enjoyed all this series. ( )

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/68

John Carter has a problem with losing people in the first three Mars books. This includes wife, son, leader, daughter-in-law, and more.

So, being the heroic type, he goes off to try and rescue the lot of them. This time he has some help in the form of Thuvia's dad, and, of course, a couple of bad guys in the way who'd be happy to have a babe like Dejah Thoris for themselves.

Plus a mad scientist, and finding the hidden Yellow men. All heaps of fun.

Carter himself is of course an adrenaline junkie: "As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge
myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors."

Any excuse for a swordfight will do, monsters, helping someone outnumbered, holding off 12 cannon fodder warriors to help in a rescue, or anything.

It can make you laugh how blase he gets about skewering the opposition.

Plenty of fun to be had here.

http://superprose.blogspot.com/2008/1... ( )

one must survive great leaps of the imagination with Burroughs' concept of Mars, but if that can be done (maybe switching John Carter et al over to cowboys and Indians), it's a damn fine story. The martians are one species, but several races, with green, yellow, red, black,and white skins. Within this adventure, John Carter, Prince of Helium, enters the frozen lands within the ice circle at Mars' north pole to save his wife, girl friend, and some male friends of high rank from the Jaddak of Ordik (sp). he single-handedly kills scores of opponents (wince) and wins the day with his faithful dog, Wookie or whatever (can you imagine a being with 10 legs and tusked fangs standing five feet tall and twice as large as a man?) I tell you this is fantasy of the best sort, not science fiction. As such, it is good, if not great! ( )

Volume 3 of John Carter of Mars ( )