It is terribly outdated by now with what we know of Mars, but it is still a pretty entertaining adventure story. Parts of it are passable science fiction within the constraints of what we knew of the Red Planet at the time (which was precious little). I keep imagining the ferocious six-legged multitusked "dog" (or its Martian equivalent "Woola" and how much the CGI guys would have had creating this beast which seems like a bigger and uglier version of my Springer Spaniels.
No need to wonder--they did a passable job with Woola in the John Carter film a few years ago, which sadly tried to compress the first three or so ERB books into one story and got it pretty muddled as a result.
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