Thread: Recommend me some Fantasy/SF, if you have a free moment
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Old 12-13-2008, 08:14 AM   #119
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Originally Posted by wayspooled View Post
Also, I wouldn't hesitate to check out Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Many of these popular movie things came from excellent books and it is fantasy. Kinda like The Three Musketeers and Scaramouche - if you go by the movies, it's just an adventure but if you read the books you find out 1) it's really political satire and very well done satire and 2) the story is very different.
Tarzan as political satire? I'm afraid I'd have to disagree with you about that! Superb adventure stories, but where does the political satire come into them?
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