It's nice to see some lovin' for Edgar Rice Burroughs. He's gotten a bad rap around here for poor writing, but I don't really see why. I've never found his prose cringe-worthy, and he's still entertaining new readers one hundred years after his books were first published.
Will Harry Potter still be read in one hundred years? It's possible (I think that the later books are good enough to be), but I think being in the public domain is an advantage for the ERB books that the Potter books don't have.
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