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    The Warlord of Mars
    The Warlord of Mars
    The Warlord of Mars
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    The Warlord of Mars

    Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Narrated by Gene Engene

    3.5/5

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    In the frozen wastes of Polar Mars, lay the home of the Holy Therns, powerful and brutal rulers. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris. Between him and his goal laythe bones of those who had gone before.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateJan 15, 2005
    ISBN9781596072121
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950) worked many odd jobs before professionally writing. Burroughs did not start writing until he was in his late 30s while working at a pencil-sharpener wholesaler. But after following his call to writing, Burroughs created one of America's most enduring adventure heroes: Tarzan. Along with his novels about Tarzan, Burroughs wrote the notable Barsoom series, which follows the Mars adventurer John Carter.

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    • 4/5
      This series is very exciting. It's sad that books aren't written quite like this anymore. John carter is a adventuring, fighting somebody!
    • 3/5
      This narrator is the best of those who have narrated Edgar Rice Burroughs books. His voice is dynamic and well pitched. He reads with appropriate emotion. A well read audiobook.
    • 5/5
      I loved it and the ending was amazing, however it did drag a bit. Again we find ourselves on Mars with John Carter and he's on a mission to rescue his wife Deja Thoris. It requires a journey across the world and he encounters new races, new creatures and meets up with some old friends along the way. There are countless battles and near death experiences that John Carter escapes with unbelievable good luck, but that's par for the course for this seriesUnlike the previous book in this series, Gods of Mars, John Carter is journeying alone in this novel and I do think the pacing suffers slightly for it. John Carter isn't the most interesting character in his own series, so I missed the big cast of characters that supported him in the previous novel. Their minor appearances in this one just wasn't enough for me.However, all in all, it's a great, fun read.
    • 5/5
      John Carter was the first real hero. Not a super hero..but a man with an agenda that was unwittingly thrust upon him. It is a shame that his presence fades through the series but that does nothing to take away the excitement of the Martian adventures. Burroughs was a genius. He created the first pulp heroes and laid a heavy foundation for all others to follow. Though his work is quirky, to the point and leaves little room for mind blowing intellectual filler he was a master storyteller. John Carter, The Mucker, Tarzan and a myriad of others forged a path to the future.
    • 4/5
      This is the third book in the authors series starring Virginian John Carter's adventures on Barsoom (Mars). As usual, it is mostly action and fight sequences as, following on immediately from the end of the previous book, Carter covers a lot of ground once again to rescue his princess Dejah Thoris. I did feel there was a bit more plot in this one though, which will keep me (slowly) working my way through the series.
    • 3/5
      The Barsoom series was originally written as a trilogy and Warlords of Mars was supposed to wrap up some plot threads. This is the first Martian novel to take place entirely on Mars. As usual, John Carter spends lots of time running from one pole of Mars to the other, trying to recover his kidnapped princess. When the story opens, he has triumphed over the wicked, tyrannical ruler of the Firstborn, and has exposed the official religion of Barsoom as a farce and a system of control. Before he could rescue his beloved princess, Dejah Thoris, she is imprisoned in the depths of the Temple of the Sun by the evil Matai Shang. John Carter continues to prove himself the greatest warrior on two worlds, and is the most heroic person in the entire universe.

      Although there are still eight more books to go in the Mars series, with The Warlord of Mars, Burroughs can bring to a conclusion Phase One of the saga. The books that follow will take different paths with new heroes. John Carter will not return to the protagonist role until the eighth book.

      For as cheesy as everything is in the series, Burroughs is at least consistent in his cheesiness. Sensationalized to the utmost degree, he once again puts his flair for storytelling to use via endless action and adventure. And you've got to love the book covers!

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    • 4/5
      This third book of the series picks up after a cliff-hanger ending In the second book, with John Carter seeing the Phaidor daughter of the "Father of Therns," the high priest of the Martian religion Carter has done much to discredit, about to murder Carter's beloved wife Dejah Thoris. In this book Carter sets off to rescue DEjah and becomes involved with the city of Kaol (once of the last whose ruler is faithful to the old religion) and later with the yellow and black races of Mars,
    • 5/5
      "Warlord of Mars" is the third volume of Edgar Rice Burroughs' groundbreaking Martian adventure series. This book continues where book two "The Gods of Mars" left off with Princess Dejah Thoris imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun. John Carter pursues her kidnappers (his foes) from one frozen pole of Mars to the other, encountering strange beasts and suprising people. This is a swashbuckling adventure of derring-do involving chivalry and swordplay and battles against all odds. No one has ever written a better adventure story or science fiction story than Burroughs and his Martian books were among the best of his work, although not as well known as the Tarzan series. A hundred years of sword and planet novels have followed the Mars series, but none equal this one in its majesty, in its chivalry, in its raw adventure. This book should appeal to people of all ages. I first read it in third grade many years ago.
    • 4/5
      This series is very exciting. It's sad that books aren't written quite like this anymore. John carter is a adventuring, fighting somebody!
    • 3/5
      This is NOT really book 3, it's the end of book 2 & a fine way to wrap it up, too. There aren't any surprises, but it is a lot of fun.
    • 4/5
      A very servicable pulp adventure story to while away my long bus journey. The story is dated, fairly simple, and tropetastic - John Carter need only enter another new hostile country, when he will inevitably meet and rescue a heroic warrior who is unlike the rest of his people, and immediately becomes his friend and loyal follower, allowing Carter to overthrow the established order and install his new right-thinking friend as leader. The same tricks, ideas and errors crop up, women are largely irrelevant except as motivation, and the ecosystem consists entirely of large and terrible predators.Despite all this, it's actually quite fun if you're able to shrug off those things, or indeed appreciate them. The predictable outlines of the plot and the simplicity of the characters make it an easy and undemanding read. Seeing our heroes be valiant and defeat impossible odds is fun, even though their love of violence is rather deplorable - between the violent age and background from which Carter comes, and the savagery of Barsoom, it's much easier to justify that.It's not a particularly clever or enlightening book, and won't be to everyone's tastes, but it's a decent example of its type and achieves what it sets out to do - page-turning adventure.
    • 5/5
      His best one. With Princess, he is still trying to control his narrative, but Warlord is Burroughs at his best.
    • 2/5
      I thought that this book was just exhausting. I'm tired of John Carter being pompous, racist, sexist, dim, self righteous, egocentric, and war hungry. I'm tired of spending book after book starting war after war over Dejah Thoris who has fallen into the 'damsel in distress' ditch. I'm tired of knowing ten pages before John Carter what is about to happen/his mistake/the solution to a problem. If you can get past all of that, there is a chance you will enjoy, now that Carter has civilized the Black men, conquering yet another race, I mean group of enemies.
    • 4/5
      Part 3 of the first trilogy of Barsoom has - in my opinion - the same quality as part 1. I enjoyed this book very much. It completes the former two books into an end. I will in some time continue the series.
    • 3/5
      It had to happen. This is just as much two-fisted John Carter fun as the previous books, but I'm quite over Dejah In Distress. She doesn't even get any lines. Well, some lines. I spent quite a bit of time imaging a book that was all about Phaidon, Dejah Thoris and Thuvia having shenanigans. There was still fun to be had.

      I have a question, though. How do you think John Carter disguised the colour of his pubic hair whenever he was 'in disguise' as a Thern in the previous book? And how did they colour his genitals? Seriously? These people don't wear clothes unless they are outside at the North pole of Mars. Is there not significant scholarship on this topic?
    • 3/5
      This is the third and last installment in the adventures of John Carter. As the Barsoom series continues the stories of others.John Carter is still tracking the movements of his beloved princess Dejah Thoris, he keeps getting close and failing to get her.In this final book we meet the Yellow Martians. I also start to think that John Carter is a little dense, he seems to forget things rather quickly, then recall them when it is too late. Maybe he has suffered too many hits to the head.Another entertaining tale, steady plot line, not many twists and turns, lots of fighting and intrigue, deviousness from John Carter and his enemies. Not many threads to tie up here but a fun read.
    • 2/5
      I read "A Princess of Mars" because they're making a movie; I read the second book (Gods of Mars) because I was interested in the series.

      I think I read "The Warlord of Mars" because it was free and I had it on my Nook ereader -- it's not quite up to the standard of the first two.

      The Warlord of Mars has an "epic" feel about it, but it's fairly short, and ultimately felt a little thin.

      Still, Burroughs' Mars series are pulp sci-fi/planetary romance classics, and there is adventure galore in these books. I wish I'd read them as a kid, where some of the more glaring problems wouldn't bother me as much.

      This is still fun stuff, and because the series is available from the Project Gutenberg site for free (multiple ebook formats), it's also a a lot of bang for your non-existent buck.
    • 5/5
      This was an awesome ending to the original John Carter Martian series.And since there are at least 8 more I cannot wait to see what the rest of the series is like.
    • 3/5
      I get that Burroughs is supposedly one of the founding fathers of Science Fiction. I know that he is revered by some of the authors I cherish. However, I just can't really enjoy these books. I've read the first three now and it seems like an endless cycle of fight, rescue, fight, get kidnapped, fight, meet new races/monsters, fight, fight, fight, and I'm just not all that entertained by the endless descriptions of battle and what a cream-your-pants awesome fighter John Carter is. Bottom line: I get it, but I don't have to like it. At least now I understand Heinlein's Number of the Beast a little better. I think I'll be done with this, at least for now.
    • 3/5
      It's a while since I read this but from memory I enjoyed all this series.
    • 4/5
      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!