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Sto caricando le informazioni... Jane Carver of Waar (2012)di Nathan Long
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a modern update to A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The twist is instead of John Carter going to Mars we get Jane Carver going to Waar. Jane is a biker chick who accidentally kills a man who tries to take advantage of her. While on the run from the police, she discovers a cave with a glowing stone that transports her to the planet Waar. She does her best to adapt to her situation as only she can. A fun, fast read that captures the feel of the pulp classic it is inspired by. And yes, there is a sequel! Interesting. Very much in Burroughs style - enough to make me want to read some John Carter, to see just how close it is. Slightly uneven - Jane keeps obsessing about sex and her looks in a way that's very much male gaze, then she snaps back and feels like a woman again (I'm thinking particularly of the time in the gladiator stable, when she thinks how she misses cuddling). The characters are a bit sketchy, though they fill out a bit - become more than a collection of quirks - by the last few chapters. And one thing that's _very_ like John Carter - Jane spends the whole book working on getting home (with lots of side-quests on the way). At the end, she finally realizes she'd rather stay - for adventure and love and a better life than she has on Earth - at which point she's shanghaied back to Earth! Which, just like John Carter, sets up for the sequel - which is out, and which I want to read. I don't think Jane will ever be a favorite, but worth reading and likely worth rereading. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieJane Carver of Waar (book 1)
Jane Carver is nobody's idea of a space princess. A hard-ridin', hard-lovin' biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger, Jane is as surprised as anyone else when, on the run from the law, she ducks into the wrong cave at the wrong time-and wakes up butt-naked on an exotic alien planet light-years away from everything she's ever known. Waar is a savage world of four-armed tiger-men, sky-pirates, slaves, gladiators, and purple-skinned warriors in thrall to a bloodthirsty code of honor and chivalry. Caught up in a disgraced nobleman's quest to win back the hand of a sexy alien princess, Jane encounters bizarre wonders and dangers unlike anything she ever ran into back home. Then again, Waar has never seen anyone like Jane before... Both a loving tribute and scathing parody of the swashbuckling space fantasies of yore, Jane Carver of Waar introduces an unforgettable new science fiction heroine. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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And the story is funny! Of course the setting and characters are a little on the thin side...but it is a pulp sci-fi story after all.
It was a bit formulaic in the plotting: character goes to A, does X, then to B and does Y, etc... but the humor and the freshness of Jane's non-feminine and yet still female attitudes more than made up for any sense of writing 101. There was just a tiny bit of moralizing - mostly to do with gender stereotypes - which was more entertaining than lecture-y. I bought the next book too. ( )