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DejahThoris says:

Davisbr,

I already have a Nook Color…so GMTA and all that! Actually, my introduction to John Carter of Mars was via Heinlein years ago, and it was only in the past couple of years that I decided to read the entire ERB series. I bought them all used online (before I had my Nook), and devoured them faster than my husband goes through a pound of bacon.

I fear for the integrity of the movie that you speak of. Apparently, they have removed the “of Mars” from the movie title, supposedly out of fear of audience assumptions. Plus, I have no idea how they are going to make a movie with every one naked. That many swinging cods are gonna make the movie sensors break out in hives, even if there is nothing but the most chivalrous and gallant of interactions between the characters. It would truly be divine if they would stick to the book, but one could say that about all the SF movie travesties: Starship Troopers, Hitchhiker’s Guide, I, Robot, etc.*

*Yes, that list is incomplete, but it occurred to me that it could take me hours to complete that list, and whatever point I might be trying to make would have been lost in debate over the merits of various movies and whether to include other fiction genres.