Confessions of a Book Addict

Well folks, it's official: John Carter of Mars is coming to the big covert adjacent year! It appears they accept finally settled on the championship "John Carter" (ugh). Burroughs' epic classic SF serial has been turned into a "blockbuster," every bit I've seen it described. According to Fandango , it toll $250 meg to make! Seeing the trailer, I tin lavatory empathize where the coin went. Here's the trailer: First off, it looks beautifully filmed. For a major SF cinema to come upwards out looking this bully is a serious accomplishment. To contrast, I saw the remake of Clash of the Titans when it came out inwards theatres lastly year, in addition to was non thrilled alongside the exceptional effects in addition to fifty-fifty the acting. The storyline was in addition to then warped it barely resembled the original from 1981 (which was fantastic past times the way). To brand matters worse, they are straight off making a sequel . *sadfa...

Obviously, inwards my opinion, books are awesome. And every bit I said inwards a previous entry, I've been reading a lot of e-books. I've talked nearly the differences betwixt Edgar R. Burroughs' version of Mars together with Ray Bradbury's, together with forthwith I'm genuinely getting into Burroughs more. After finishing A Princess of Mars I sought out every bit many of the other books every bit I could. I'm currently reading #7, A Fighting Man of Mars . Each private majority is non bad inwards itself, but together the serial almost ever sounds the same: Man falls inwards dearest amongst woman, adult woman spurns him, adult woman gets kidnapped, human being rescues her, she falls inwards dearest amongst him, they larn married, yadda yadda. Despite the fact that they're all pretty much the same majority amongst dissimilar characters, I genuinely am enjoying this serial together with desire to ain them all (particularly to position them on a tabular ...

This yesteryear calendar week inwards reading has been difficult. Almost no progress has been made inwards the book I don't like , but inwards other areas I've been moving along quite nicely. Last Mon I finished A Princess of Mars yesteryear Edgar R. Burroughs which was a costless ebook on Suvudu . In finishing A Princess of Mars (and fifty-fifty upon starting it), I realized I had read it earlier in addition to never noted it. I can't think for the life of me when or where I read it. Maybe inwards college? I did accept a scientific discipline fiction course of teaching inwards my finally semester. There was also the Arthurian literature course of teaching I took inwards undergrad, but I don't mean value nosotros read it inwards that class. Anyway, what struck me every bit funny was that I had been looking frontward to starting over inwards C.S. Lewis's terminal new inwards his infinite trilogy, That Hideous Strength . And the argue for this? I remember...