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** NOBEL LAUREATE 2002**

A dry and bitter story (vital and optimistic at the same time) narrates the unimaginable life of Bé, a "writer" born in Auschwitz who was baptized with the letter B and a series of numbers tattooed on his thigh. Bé commits suicide shortly after the fall of Communism in Hungary, in 1990, and his editor friend Keserú, tries to narrate his life while he searches for Bé's unpublished novel. In 150 pages Kertész describes the torture of writing about horror and, defends the power of love, literature and memories to overcome the Auschwitz experience.

Description in Spanish: Keseru trabaja en una editorial y ha recogido los papeles póstumos de B, su amigo escritor, que se ha suicidado. Busca entre ellos una novela inédita y se embarca sin esperarlo en la revisión de su propia vida. Es entonces cuando comienza a desvelarse también la historia que está detrás del escritor: su pasado en Auschwitz, sus historias de amor, sus obras inacabadas y la influencia que tuvieron sobre él los cambios políticos de finales de los ochenta.

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I might, just might, be missing something

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Old friends revisited - I sure enjoyed it
Edgar Rice Burroughs Science Fiction Classics: Pellucidar, Thuvia Maid of Mars, Tanar of Pellucidar, the Chessman of Mars, the Master Mind of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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great buy for my needs.......2007-05-13

can't believe I got the book for such reasonable price and prompt service with delivery

Light-hearted escapism.......1999-04-06

These books are great fun for kids and teenagers, even some adults. I suspect, however, that if you don't read Burroughs between 12 and 14, you'll miss out on 90% of the fun. None of his Mars books are to be taken seriously. In "The Mastermind of Mars," for example, before there is even any dialogue, the hero is blown up in WWI, astral-travels to Mars, immediately has a swordfight, then witnesses a brain transplant by an almost-blind, 1000-year-old Martian! Then he falls in love with an old hag with the brain of a beautiful, kind young woman. Later he recruits the help of a gigantic ape with a half-human, half-ape brain. The author isn't the greatest stylist that ever lived, but he knew how to tell a story.

I might, just might, be missing something.......1999-03-27

Writers I admire (C.S. Lewis and Robert Sheckley, and I know that there are others as well) have kind words to say about Edgar Rice Burroughs, and claim to derive inspiration from him. I mention this because I have to. It means that perhaps there is something in the man's writing that I'm missing. I must be honest and allow this possibility. The more LIKELY possibility, though, is that writers make poor critics, and will allow their superior imaginations to do the work that Burroughs didn't.

For one thing that has been said about Burroughs is that, while he could scarcely write, and was woefully ignorant, and inconsistent, he at least had a vivid imagination. Like hell he did. His imagination was the most pallid thing about him. This is clearer in the Mars books than anywhere else. Everywhere there are beasts exactly like terrestrial ones but bigger, fiercer, with more limbs and sharper teeth and brighter colours ... every forgettable sort of detail-enhancement that might substitute for true invention.

Burroughs takes the standard view of an ancient, decadent, dying Mars and adds nothing, except damsels and stilted dialogue. These are the books of someone who spends valuable time working out new units of measurement to replace feet and inches, whiles away afternoons dreaming up pointless bigger-is-better variations on terrestrial chess, but makes up the details about character and social organisation as he goes along. Admittedly he has plenty of time, since the story is invariably a fight-after-fight-after-fight affair, the author doing little to disguise the fact that he's being paid by the word. (Never let anyone convince you otherwise: his prose is ghastly.)

If you sense that Burroughs must have been reaching towards something worthwhile, you're right. If you want to know what it was, exactly, read someone by Jack Vance. Any reason there might be to read Burroughs is a reason to read Vance. But not vice versa.

one of burroughs' best!.......1999-02-20

one of burroughs' best

Old friends revisited - I sure enjoyed it.......1998-08-07

These stories are as much a part of me as my beard. I first read them as a boy nearly fifty years ago, and they're as enjoyable today as then.

When Amazon says a book is 'value-priced,' they ain't kidding. Not only do you get five for the price of one, but you also get to see the original illustrations from a time long past. That alone was worth the price of this book.

Of course, younger readers won't get the nostalgia rush I did, but SF devotees should all read Burroughs; he was one of the giants who founded the genre.

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Even better than the first book.

Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions.

Lost on Pellucidar

The return to Pellucidar!

A Feast for the Imagination
Pellucidar - The Inner World - Volume 2 - Tanar of Pellucidar & Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Pellucidar: the Inner World)
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Pellucidar: The Inner World volume 2 - Tanar of Pellucidar & Tarzan at the Earth's Core. In the living world inside our earth danger lurks at every turn as a new empire grows. In the second volume of Leonaur's Pellucidar: the Inner World series two complete novels, Tanar of Pellucidar and Tarzan at the Earth's Core, continue the story of David Innes, the intrepid explorer who is forging a new empire in the savage inner world that is more alien than any distant planet. Everything we expect of an Edgar Rice Burroughs tale is here: beautiful, scantily clad maidens, mighty warriors, civilizations both sophisticated and savage, a menagerie of weird and wonderful creatures and Tarzan, one of the greatest heroes in all of literature. This is unforgettable and timeless scientific romance in the great tradition!

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Our trip through the earth's crust was but a repetition of my two former journeys between the inner and the outer worlds. This time, however, I imagine that we must have maintained a more nearly perpendicular course, for we accomplished the journey in a few min- utes' less time than upon the occasion of my first journey through the five-hundred-mile crust. Just a trifle less than seventy-two hours after our departure into the sands of the Sahara, we broke through the surface of Pellucidar.

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Even better than the first book........2007-04-20

This is the sequel to At The Earth's Core. Some of the reviews here say that it isn't quite as good as the first. I happen to think that it's a little bit better. Burroughs seems to avoid some of the continuity errors he made in the first book, and really it's quite a worthy addition to any adventure-reader's library.

Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions........2007-04-13

Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions. These usually contain 2 books of the different ERB major series in order - thus far John Carter, Pellucidar, and Carson of Venus. In the future, possibly Tarzan!
These books are handsome and my rating is mainly based on this - the ERB fan knows best about the rest of it.
This second volume of Pellucidar novels reflects a sharp drop in quality form the first. Nevertheless, for completists, this beautiful edition is a must. And second grade ERB is usually better than most of other fantasy/science fiction/romance writers' first grade.

Lost on Pellucidar.......2006-07-02

This is the sequel to At the Earth's Core. That book ended with the hero, David Innes, back on the surface world and separated from his mate, Dian the Beautiful. In this book, he returns to Pellucidar to get her back. This is a formula in many Edgar Rice Burroughs books; the hero becomes separated from his lady love, and has a series of adventures until he is reunited with her. It may be a formula, but it's a successful one. Sure, the plots may be similar, but there are always different strange, exotic worlds to encounter. There was a reason ERB was the most popular pulp writer of his time. Fans of pulp fiction will enjoy this book.

The return to Pellucidar!.......2005-02-07

At the end of "At the Earth's Core", David Innes, our everyman-now-Emperor, has returned to the outer world, with an ugly reptilian Mahar instead of his lovely Dian.

He vows to return, and here, in the second book of this particular series, he does exactly that.

Once again, Burroughs' simple vivid prose describes one thrilling adventure after another, in full cinematic glory. There are brutal hand-to-hand combat scenes, jungle hunts, mountaineering escapades and even a sea-faring battle. All this in under 200 pages (per my Canaveral Press copy). ERB doesn't waste a lot of words.

You just have to love the lot of characters on display here. The names alone generate all sorts of mental images: King Gr-Gr-Gr, Hooja the Sly One, Ghak the Hairy One, the Mahars, the Sagoths, the massive lidi, the hyaenadons Raja and Ranee...

Over the course of two books, you'll be hard pressed NOT to cheer for the indefatigable David Innes. He's an old-fashioned, capital-H hero; plucky, smart and brave, yet human. After all, this adventure is what happens to him while he searches for his beloved Dian.

There are two high compliments I'd like to offer:

One, is that upon finishing one book I cannot wait to read the next.

Two, is that in this modern age of film, only with computer imagery could they reproduce the fabulous vistas of Pellucidar, with the overhead "horizons" and that low-lying, rotating pendant moon.

The compliment is that it would never be as "fabulous" as those ERB created inside my head.

A Feast for the Imagination.......2003-09-10

In this, his second novel set in the savage world of Pellucidar, Edgar Rice Burroughs returns his hero David Innes to the earth's core. In relatively formulaic ERB style, David's stone-age empress Dian the Beautiful has been stolen from him by Hooja the Sly One, and he sets off against daunting odds across a primitive world to rescue her. He is aided by advanced technology (such as firearms) brought with him from the surface, and the innovations of his dear friend, the scientist Abner Perry.

This is relatively light weight science fiction, but as always Burroughs fast moving plot and adventurous style keep the pages turning like lightning. My father once reccomended this to me when I was in grade school and I simply fell in love with ERB, and I have recently been able to share the pleasure by passing on my small collection of Burroughs novels to my younger brother (now aged 12). . . after rereading them of course. He's become hooked as well, and now will not stop pestering me to find him a copy of book 3.

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This third installment in the classic Pellucidar series returns to the exotic and savage land at the center of the Earth. Led by the American explorer David Innes, the human communities have finally overthrown Pellucidar's slave masters, the dreaded Mahars. The peace, however, is temporary, and the Pellucidarian Empire is faced with a new menace, the deadly Korsar pirates. In the ensuing battle many warriors are lost and one of the most courageous, Tanar of Sari, is captured.

Tanar’s captors take him to the horrifying realm of the Buried People of Amiocap and ultimately to the Korsars' dreaded dungeons. He endures these terrors because he knows he must escape. He must return to the empire at all costs and alert the people of the newly won empire of the tragedy that has befallen them—David Innes has been captured by the Korsars. Paul Cook provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

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Super Reader.......2007-08-04

David Innes is ruler of Pellucidar, but there is still opposition. This includes a large bunch of pirates. During the conflict, young Tanar is captured by said buccaneers.

They want to learn the secret of the new weapons technology that they are faced with, and young Tanar's force of warriors is equipped with.

So, it is time for a bit of escapology.

Tanar of Pellucidar: (#3) (Pellucidar, No 3)

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A GREAT READ FOR BURROUGHS' FANS...AND ANYONE ELSE
David Innes sails off to rescue Tanar from the pirates of Pellucidar
Pirates enter Pellucidar!
Tanar of Pellucidar

Tanar of Pellucidar: (#3) (Pellucidar, No 3)
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Release Date: 1990-04-14

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After fifteen years of war, Pellucidar's slavemasters, the dread Mahars, had been conquered. But the young Pellucidarian Empire, ruled by David Innes, was unprepared to face a new menace, the deadly Korsar pirates. Bravely the Empire's primitive warriors fought, but many were lost -- and Tanar of Sari, one of Innes's most courageous warriors, was captured.

All through the terrors of the hideous realm of the Buried People of Amiocap and the unspeakable horrors of the Korsar's dungeons, Tanar refused to break. He was determined to escape, for he had dreadful news for the Empire -- the Korsars had captured David Innes!

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A GREAT READ FOR BURROUGHS' FANS...AND ANYONE ELSE.......2006-03-13

I must admit to have cut my reading teeth on Edgar Rice Burroughs and his ilk so am inclined to be a big fan. Burroughs contines his wonderful fantasy stories with the Pellucidar series and this work is one of the best. As one reviewer has already pointed out, Burroughs' observation on the human conditon can be quite acute and down right funny. As a old man, I recently reread this one (along with several others by this author) and found they have lost none of thier charm. The are "page turners" in every way and simply fun to read. Granted, some of the author's writing can indeed be a bit predictable, but somehow that is comforting for me. Recommend this one highly.

David Innes sails off to rescue Tanar from the pirates of Pellucidar.......2005-12-28

"Tanar of Pellucidar" was the third pulp fiction novel Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote in his Pellucidar series, which was his third longest after the Tarzan and Barsoom series. Burorughs wrote the story as a six-part serial in late 1928 and it was first published in "The Blue Book Magazine" from March to August of 1929. "Tanar" was written after "Tarzan and the Lost Empire," and after completing it Burroughs wrote a sequel to both works when his next novel presented his only book to be in two different series, "Tarzan at the Earth's Core."

Although the title for the novel is taken from a character native to the inner world of Pellucidar, the most interesting character in Burroughs' novel is Jason Gridley, who is introduced in the prologue as a friend of the author. An orphan, Gridley has graduated from Stanford and built a lab at Tarzana (ERB's home). There he discovers the "Gridley Wave," which is the means by which Burroughs will receive his "true" stories from the Earth's core and Mars. That is the case with this story, which is sent by Abner Perry from Pellucidar, where he and David Innes have been living for fifteen years. Perry reports that Innes is being held a captive in the north of Pellucidar. Althought the Mahas and their Sagoths have been driven beyond the border of the Empire of Pellucidar, the Kingdom of Thuria in the Land of the Awful Shadow is now under attack by a savage race of men led by Goork.

Tanar, son of Ghak, is who Innes sends to deal with the situation, along with 10,000 warriors armed with the "modern" firearms created by Innes and Perry. Tanar is captured by Korsar pirates who want to learn the secret of the strange weapons that control the balance of power in Pellucidar. Innes heads off to rescue Tanar, ordering that a fleet of 50 ships be built to follow him as soon as possible. Meanwhile, back on the Kosar ship Tanar and the lovely Stellara are busy ignoring each other, so the romantic interest of the novel has been established. That means that we can get on with the standard ERB adventure yarn, which is that Tanar and Stellara escape, get recaptured, get separated, so on and so forth. But ERB keeps the action moving at a brisk place and I always liked the way that the Pellucidar novels involved interjecting "modern" technology into the equation. Besides, in conquering this inner "New" world, Innes is much more beneficent than the European who arrived in this particular hemisphere.

Be forewarned that the novel ends with David Innes still being held in the prison of the Cid, covered by snakes no less, so there is a cliffhanger ending.. Jason Gridley promies to help, thereby setting up the rescue effort by Tarzan in the next book. I have to admit, that given how redundant and repetitive the Tarzan books became that having Tarzan actually be in a strange new world and not just another uncharted part of the African continent was a decent little twist. Of course, Tarzan is always going to be the lord of whatever jungle he ends up in, so some things remain constant.

Pirates enter Pellucidar!.......2005-02-15

The third book in the Pellucidar series, 'Tanar of Pellucidar' concerns the exploits of of Tanar, and his adventures within the world lying under the "outer crust", Pellucidar.

Burroughs doesn't deviate too far from his formula, nor would you want him to.

Tanar is the honorable, fallible, romantically-driven hero, Stellara his love, and a whole host of bad guys interfere with them getting together. This time, they're from a place called Korsar, and look remarkably like pirates.

Yup. Yo ho, yo ho pirates.
Like the other books, there are set pieces aplenty, written in ERB's thrilling simple style. Jungles chases and oceanic clashes...dungeons, dinosaurs...oh it's all here as usual.

This time, however, there is a bit more elegance and sophistication slipping in to his prose. First, Mr. Burroughs appears in the prologue/epilogue. The jarring anachronistic presence of the pirates is given a possible explanation, in a tantalizing fashion. He gives us enough information to put two and two together, but you still want to read more, and I think he's setting us up nicely for the subsequent novels.
Which I now absolutely MUST read.

One last humorous note: Some of the exotic locales, like Anoroc and Amiocap, I've just noticed to be cities in California spelled backwards...

Tanar of Pellucidar.......2001-09-24

Although Edgar Rice Burrough's style can get predictable at times, he can come up with some literary gems such as the first few Tarzan novels and (if he had just foregone the "sequals") "the Land that Time Forgot". "Tanar of Pellucidar", along with "Escape on Venus" stand out for their simple, straightforward observations (often humorous) of human nature as expressed through the practices of various societies. Even if you aren't a Burroughs fan, these two titles I recommend for any lover of good fiction.

At the Earth's Core Pellucidar Tanar of Pellucidar

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The ultimate fantasy exploration and adventure series

At the Earth's Core Pellucidar Tanar of Pellucidar
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The ultimate fantasy exploration and adventure series.......2004-01-24

Though considered "dated" now by many, this science fiction series by the creator of Tarzan was always one of my favorites. Of course you have to suspend belief in certain scientific and geographical principles to enjoy them, but you are more than rewarded by the nonstop action and high adventure. If you ever yearned to explore a strange new world of marvels and monsters, then this is the series for you.

This particular collection republishes three of the seven volumes in the series- including _At the Earth's Core_ which was the first. Pellucidar, in case you are new, is a subterranian world on the inner surface of the earth's crust. This world can be accessed by either drilling through the the crust or by natural openings at the poles. Burroughs inhabited this world with a rich variety of marvels almost around ever corner. These stories are a nonstop collection of survival, exploration, and empire building in strange and savage lands.

If you enjoy this collection then you'll also want to track down _Tarzan at the Earth's Core_ where ERB sends his greatest character into his greatest setting.

These books are especially good for escaping from the dissappointments and frustrations of daily life. I once locked myself in my apartment for over a week in grad school and read back through the whole series....

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Great Vintage Collection of Tarzan Tales inside the Earth!
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Great Vintage Collection of Tarzan Tales inside the Earth!.......2007-09-25

I always enjoyed Tarzan running around the jungle etc etc but when he made his way "back into a land time forgot" in the Pellucidar series of tales at the earth's core fighting dinos and sabertooths and mastodons and cavedudes -- well, heck! How cool was that! So get the series of tales here all together.

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