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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 16, 2011 19:48:33 GMT
The words "Fuck" and "Yes" spring readily to my small mind.  Watch in HD & Full screen. AH |
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Post by motorist on Jul 17, 2011 10:52:20 GMT
mmmmmm smell that EdgarRiceBurroughs goodness  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 18, 2011 20:03:15 GMT
Seriously splooging my pants at this, it looks well boss...and Lynn Collins gives us a Dejah Thoris that looks every inch a true Princess of Mars...amazing!  And a trilogy of films as well...so awesome!  AH |
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Post by motorist on Jul 19, 2011 9:31:58 GMT
*splots*
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Post by everso on Jul 19, 2011 10:20:10 GMT
Tsk!
*fills the bucket with water and Flash, and gets the mop*
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Post by aubrey on Jul 19, 2011 10:52:06 GMT
I was thinking of a thread about books you wish you'd read as a teenager, but I thought it would be too like too many other threads I've started.
Anyway, the Barsoom books and the Tarzan books would in my list, as well as E.E Smith and probably Frank Herbert.
I tried E.E. Smith a few years ago and it seemed poor stuff; at 14 it might have seemed great. I think Burroughs could be the same.
I read Moorcock's fantasies at that time, and I can still read them with pleasure now; Burroughs would be the same if I'd read him back then. I did enjoy Moorcock's homage to Burroughs, though I don't remember what it was called - it was a Mars trilogy though.
The nearest I came was a parody by PJ Farmer, of an ER Burroughs story as if written by W Burroughs - The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod, it was called. I remember there was a purple-assed baboon involved. PJ Farmer's Tarzan books are very good - Tarzan Alive (a fake biography) and there was another one - A Feast Unknown - where he had to change Tarzan's name for copyright reasons, and because he had a lot of homo-eroticism in it.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 26, 2011 22:57:08 GMT
Moorcocks Mars trilogy was "Kane of old Mars" There was one book where he discovered a city where everybody was like an organic-borg-computer hive-mind-collective or something. Brilliant! Lyn Carter did some nice ERB style stuff as well. His "Zanthadon" series (at the earths core rip off) and his "Callisto" series were great. Edit: A feast Unknown is basically Tarzan and Doc Savage beating the crap out of each other while naked and sporting huge erections is it not? ;D PJ Farmers "Stone God Awekens" novel is superb...crying shame that he never lived to complete what was meant to be a trilogy at least.  AH |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 27, 2011 21:17:57 GMT
A Feast Unknown is as you say; I was reading it in the park one evening when two baptists (from Spurgeons) came to try and convert me. I wanted to tell them about the duel that Tarzan and Doc Savage have.
I enjoyed the Stone God one as well: I always enjoy PJ Farmer. I really enjoyed his two porn horror/fantasy novels - Image of the Beast and Blown.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 27, 2011 21:58:37 GMT
There is a really nice "Bison" edition of "Tarzan Alive" on Amazon at the moment...I'm a bit tempted seeing as I've never read it. AH |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 28, 2011 16:57:04 GMT
I used to have separate editions of The Image of the Beast and Blown with tasteful "Adult" covers; then I found them in one book, with a tacky cover, published by Playboy, which is much better. I remember reading the first one, the one with the fog, while waiting for a screening of Cabaret in Gainsborough town hall. I was smoking No6 (we did in those days), and the book now reminds me of that dry taste: actually, even the idea of fog does. Do you know about the Wold Newton idea? Something about a comet landing in Yorkshire in 1700 and something, and hundreds of people - real and fictional - being born as a result (direct and indirect). So, Tarzan, S Holmes, etc etc are all linked, He's got it really well worked out. Wold Newton.Anyway, if this kind of thing doesn't appeal to you, you might not get so much out of Tarzan Alive. I see it more as a loving homage to all the writers who created the characters he uses than anything. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Feb 24, 2012 17:27:37 GMT
Raaaaaaaargh! Latest trailer looks fucking boss!  This movie has ALL the elements of the books...Check out the "great white ape" early on!!! Even has Carter's martian "guard dog" Woola! Jesus God damn Christ...I am so stoked for this!!!!  Edgar Rice Burroughs would be gob smacked...he would absolutely love how they have visualised his work. Incredible! AH |
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