Another top-notch action/adventure book. Seem to be reading a lot of these...

Even tho this is a 100 year old book, holds up extremely well. The writing is a little florid, which might make sense since the "author" is a Civil War era soldier, but the action is non-stop, with the usual ERB convenient coincidences thrown in throughout.

One thing I've noticed with some of these roughly 100 year old adventure tales I've been reading is the limited or lack of dialogue: a lot of what would be written out as conversations, which might go on for pages, are instead wrapped up in tidy sentences or short paragraphs.

Read the first Martian Tales just after the movie, "John Carter," came out, tho I still haven't seen that. Liked the book enough to want to continue the series. This book ends on a heck of a cliff-hanger, so I'm committed to reading the next one as well!

Doesn't count as a book (since it's a graphic novel; doesn't fit my rules) but just picked up a signed copy of the actual book a couple of weeks ago. Goes a lot closer to the top of the reading pile now!

Haven't read this in literally 30 years, since the TV show came out here.

Holds up for the most part, but... the comedy lies a little flat (the dialogue works for radio, but needed a little more tweaking for print, as did the (obviously) added descriptive passages) and it *completely* ends right in the middle of things without it even being a proper cliff-hanger.

I had also forgotten how many extra little bits were in the book, such as the stealing of the Heart of Gold and the bits about a hitchhiker's towel. 

Overall: good, but I think I need to read the rest of the trilogy to get the full story (never mind how many times I've heard the radio version and seen the TV show)...

First time "reading" Leonard, but from my understanding pretty typical: couple of small time crooks get the big idea to kidnap a woman to get money from her slightly crooked husband, who had just started divorce proceedings. Things ensue.

The dialogue (which is a bulk of the story) is natural and easy, again from my understanding typical of Leonard; and the narrator has a voice that sounds like he's just this guy telling you a story, but he's able to make the voices of the characters distinct enough that it's no trouble following who is saying what.

What did you think? 

Have you seen/heard this in other formats? (Please don't tell me you saw the movie... ;-)

Classic day-in-the-life first-person narration of a boy who is kicked out of his private school and heads into New York City for the day, avoiding heading home to confront his parents. In the top 100 books of the 20th Century on many lists.

Ugh. Totally underwhelmed. Couldn't wait for something to happen, and then nothing did. That just killed me. I mean it.