tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25614437.post174658491328370882..comments2014-08-04T18:12:12.424-04:00Comments on Hawthorn Thistleberry: The Warlords of MarsHawthorn Thistleberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00358395505794303985noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25614437.post-55536002390762343422013-10-29T00:36:40.138-04:002013-10-29T00:36:40.138-04:00When you watch a football game, there's a reas...When you watch a football game, there's a reason you never see the skinny cheerleader charge onto the field and take down the linebacker. Size, weight, and strength do matter. To some degree deficits in these can be offset by skill, but there's no reason a professional soldier wouldn't have plenty of that too.<br /><br />No, Dejah Thoris should stay put when it's time for fighting. I would have liked to see her be useful in other ways, such as in the first book she was able to draw maps and resist mind probing. Imagine if she'd been able to probe minds and read the dead herself. John Carter could have learned things from her, instead of lucking into them.Sailor Barsoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000169582852956330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25614437.post-48314898934735197492011-02-13T11:22:12.077-05:002011-02-13T11:22:12.077-05:00The fourth book is a story about Carthoris. The fi...The fourth book is a story about Carthoris. The fifth is a story about Carter's daughter whose name eludes me. The sixth book introduces a new visitor from Earth who is clearly John Carter 2.0. After that the books get less and less polished much like the work of many more contemporary fiction writers who find themselves writing endless series of novels.<br /><br />I think your predictions are spot on about Burroughs writing himself into a corner. The rest of series has lots of instances of people discovering small tucked away corners of Barsoom that no red man has seen before.drscorpiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13251101281571006126noreply@blogger.com