Tarzan of the Apes

D. Blankenship said Once a fan, always a fan. Wowthis work has been around for over 100 years now and is still going strong. The Tarzan character created by Burroughs has become an actual cultural icon and it would be difficult to find an individual of any age that does not have at least some idea of who he is/was even if they have never read this or the other books in the series.While I have always been a bigger fan of his John Carter series, I never the less started reading all of the Tarzan books at a pretty early age back in the mid to late 1950s. I know my father, when he was a lad, read the same books and it was one of the few “literary&rdquo. Fun and an eye opener Mountain Home Once you get past the bombast of the period writing, the story is quite good. Parts of it are, of course, downright ridiculous in whole, and others are only mildly impossible. Our hero is superlative, too smart, learns to read by himself, with no possible reference points, and speaks French in a matter of days. Beside all that, this is a fun book. I just had to remind myself Burroughs was writing for an audience much less sophisticated than the jaded reader of today. I think it is good to occasionally read a book written long ago to experience attitudes and social norms that existed before our current time. T. "I'm shocked by how much I liked this book" according to Empty=P. I'm shocked by how much I liked this book; it's hilarious! Something you should know before reading: it's super racist and sexist. Typically this would annoy me, but somehow it comes off as funny in this book, not that racism or sexism is funny, but the writer seems so unaware of the world in general, that some of his more ridiculous depictions come off as just the flawed thinking of a individual with very limited experience.An example of Mr. Burroughs limited experience with the things he writes about would be his general description of the animals in Africa. First off, he talks frequently of "sabor" the LIO

Thrilling tale of the abandoned infant Lord Greystoke, his upbringing by Kala the ape, and his rediscovery by humankind.. Running time: 8.3 hours (slow), 7.6 hours (medium), 6.9 hours (fast). The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included

Against all odds, he survives and learns the ways of the great apes. --From the Publisher. Then he comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman named Jane, and, more than ever, he wonders just who the real Tarzan is. Without his animal strength and human intelligence, Tarzan of the Apes would many times have been a dead man. Orphaned in infancy, Tarzan is adopted by a female ape who has just lost her own baby. But Tarzan is different from the apes, and he knows this more with each passing day