Goran Gligovic joins us to discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “A Princess of Mars”, Asterix and Obelix, the Library of Wonder, Tarzan, being 30 for as long as you can remember, main characters as blank canvases, Robert E. Howard, the Fighting Man class in OD&D, when to embrace realism and when to eschew it, Frank Frazetta’s action scenes, gargoyles taking a piss, a brightly dressed Elric, and much more!
Appendix N Book Club 
Happy and relieved to hear you and your guest liked this book almost as much as my Dad and I. At the risk of being pedantic I will say that Burroughs describes the Thark’s eyes as protuberant but not on stalks. Like the eyes of a mantis they can look in two separate directions. There is a painting by Allen St. John from one of the Barsoom books that captures the insectoid look I always imagined for the Tharks.
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