I was browsing a thrift store yesterday and I saw like twenty

The first one has some historical merit
The rest are garbage
Philip Jose Farmer wrote some hilarious pastiches of it

Looks badass. Are they fun reads?

They're mostly shit after the first one. The plots become ridiculous, unbelievable garbage. However, they are fun to read as cheap entertainment.

t. someone who has read most of them.

What are the most essential Edgar Rice Burroughs novels?

>>9413733
all the john carter books though they start to fall off after the third.

>>9413727
>The plots become ridiculous, unbelievable garbage.
>as opposed to the basic premise of the character, which is quite sound and reasonable

>>9413345
They are not part of the Great Western Canon

>>9413727
hmm
>>9413512
>Are they fun reads?
what a banal question indicative of a simple mind. I picture you a farmer chewing cud in his field staring listlessly at the sky

>>9413817
Exactly. The premise is already absurd, but he takes it to incredible heights as the series progresses.

>>9413828
>being so autistic and "puhtrishuhn" that you can't have fun occasionally