This book was the original inspired for thousands of sci-Fi writers, fans and even great movie makers including Stephen Spielburg and George Lucas. And ME! Those books changed my life and world view, as it did to countless men and women from 1915 to today. I taught my kids to love reading by starting that book, and then leaving it by their bedsides (they read all night and for years thereafter).

Written before Burroughs invented Tarzan, John Carter was a professional fighting from two planets who handled monsters of all sizes and ferocities. His adventures suspend breath, and supersede disbelief. TREASURES!!

Here's hoping Disney doesn't distort this marvelous story out of all recognition as he has most of his other story versions. It would serve a new generation to read this breathtaking series. After reading thousands of novels and being an English teacher and novelist for years, I still say I have never read ANY author with such a HUGE vocabulary. Yet he writes so well that any young teen can understand the words from context. And his stories are so exciting a kid's reading speed increases from sheer excitement to get to the next page. Harry Potter can't TOUCH Burroughs!

Here's hoping, wishing, pleading for the movie to be as good as the novels, and for another 4 generations to flock to the books for excitement that makes Indiana Jones pale!