For the next NetherWords saga, I’ve taken on the exciting task of recording Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars.
This story was introduced to me by my grandmother, again when I was very young. We took turns reading chapters to each other, getting a kick out of the chivalry John Carter displays, and the long-winded paragraphs of text that Burroughs seemed to be fond of writing. We would crack up at some of the more absurd moments in the story (such as when John Carter describes his first attempts at walking on the Martian surface).
But we weren’t laughing at Edgar Rice Burroughs; we were laughing next to him! I’m pretty sure he got in a good chuckle or two whilst writing these words. John Carter got his own wry sense of humor from somewhere, after all …