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Kveto from Prague
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Post by Kveto from Prague » Fri March 16th, 2012, 8:00 pm

"the mucker" by ER Burroughs

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Post by SGM » Sat March 17th, 2012, 7:29 am

I read some ERB Sci-Fi and probably one Tarzan as a kid. i really can't remember them much except that found the style very old-fashioned but that was probably because I was too young to appreciate other aspects.

ERB has been coming to mind recently because of the John Carter film which I would have seen simply for Dominic West but it has had some truly terrible reviews so I might not bother.
Currently reading - Emergence of a Nation State by Alan Smith

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Sat March 17th, 2012, 9:09 am

Yeah, ERB has always been hit or miss for me. Ive never got into his Mars stuff and never even tried tarzan. His "land that time forgot" was too slow to be interesting. but the "mucker" was good. the best thing ive read by him is "the Monster men" a very cinematic fast paced thriller with a real moral punch, written early in his carreer. If you read anything from ERB read that.

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Wed March 21st, 2012, 7:09 am

"return of the mucker" by ERB

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Tue March 27th, 2012, 8:26 am

"the crusaders" (NF) by Harold Lamb

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Sun April 8th, 2012, 3:18 pm

"A Jacobite exile" by GA Henty

"The red Mask" by Rafael Sabatini

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Tue May 1st, 2012, 8:44 am

"Charlemagne" by harold Lamb (NF)

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Thu May 10th, 2012, 7:15 pm

"in freedoms cause" by g a henty

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Thu May 17th, 2012, 5:39 am

"havelok the dane" by charles a whistler

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Thu May 17th, 2012, 7:37 pm

"gangs of chicago" by herbert ashby (reread)

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