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ps238principal

Terra Nova, why can't I quit you?

Dec 02, 2011 00:21

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John Carter of MARS ext_406033 December 2 2011, 18:36:48 UTC

Of course the logo for the film is JCM.

Why they don't want to use the full name, I don't know. I just bought a kindle and the first thing I did was to go to Project Gutenberg and download all the Mars books for free. Just so folks know, you don't need a reader to download from Gutenberg, it just makes it easier to read.

Re: John Carter of MARS ps238principal December 5 2011, 07:25:59 UTC

I may have to swipe my wife's Nook and do the same. Thanks!

John Carter of Mars anonymous December 2 2011, 19:16:44 UTC

I'm afraid you've got your dates a bit off. The first of the John Carter stories was published in 1912, not 1917. "Under the Moons of Mars" was serialized starting in February of '12. It was edited into book form and published as "A Princess of Mars" in 1917. So the movie is coming out almost exactly a century after initial publication.

Me, A Barsoom nerd? Never!

Re: John Carter of Mars ps238principal December 5 2011, 07:27:15 UTC

That's a nice bit of symmetry they've managed, there.

I also later read that George Lucas cited the Barsoom books as inspiration for "Star Wars."

leanne_opaskar December 2 2011, 20:49:53 UTC

I am so disappointed that the world in a box that your thirteen-year-old-self found was not a Phantom Tollbooth.

leanne_opaskar December 2 2011, 20:52:37 UTC

and I'm not sure where I got that age number from -- apparently I have no reading comprehension today, I apologize.

ps238principal December 5 2011, 07:28:44 UTC

I'd gotten that earlier, both in book form and in the still-great Chuck Jones animated form!

Josh will get that book fairly early on. It's one of my wife's favorites, and she has probably a dozen copies that she has leftover from when she taught 6th grade.

Terra Nova kiddala December 2 2011, 22:06:14 UTC

Surely scramblers would make more sense than Harleys. They'd get round the terrain much easier and there's the option to have a chase sequence with a load of bike stunts in it. If the Harleys are there for product placement ( like the nerf guns ;-) ) the they could just drink red bull at the end of the chase instead

Re: Terra Nova ps238principal December 5 2011, 07:29:46 UTC

I also wonder if bikes were chosen because they'd be more "Mad Max?"

I also just had the thought that we haven't seen anything happen on or near any major bodies of water. If Terra Nova has jet-skis, I may have to re-think ever watching it again.

Deathlands published by Harlequin aujahlisa December 3 2011, 15:00:21 UTC

When I worked at a bookstore, I found out that the Gold Eagle imprint was from the same publisher as Harlequin. Ever since, I think of those as Men's Romance Novels. I'm sure that the Deathlands books have the same overdone "purple prose" as the stuff churned out for the "ladies"

Re: Deathlands published by Harlequin miyaa99 December 4 2011, 14:54:28 UTC

Mind blown. This explains so much.