Tarzan of the Apes [UNABRIDGED-MP3 CD]

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Summary: fond nostalgia of boyhood
Review: This is a great book for youngsters. It is a classic adventure story. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a great tale of adventure. I read this book in junior high school and then again in high school. I recently reread it again now in my thirties. It is still a compelling read. One grows to care for Tarzan of the Apes. The movies do not do it justice. The original is the best. A lot of the subsequent Tarzan novels do not measure up to this one. It is a bona fide classic of adventure fiction. It deserves a place next to works by Rider Haggard and Zane Grey. I find myself waxing nostalgic for youth gone by and Tarzan of the Apes is right there. A fun read at any age.

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Summary: The first barbarian
Review: When I read Edgar Rice Burroughs "Tarzan of the Apes", I have the feeling I know where Robert E. Howard thought of "Conan". Tarzan startsn with Lord Greystoke of His Majasties Army on his way to an African outpost, when he and his wife are marooned on a remote part of the coast. John Greystoke is born, and soon after his parents are killed by wild apes. One of the apes adopts John, now called Tarzan, and raises him as a noble warrior ape. Many years later more people land on his part of the coast and he becomes involved in their lives. The book is completely improbable, but it is wrote in such a manner that it seems plausable. I liked the adventure, action, and even the humor. I am also very aware of jungles atmosphere and how beautiful it seemed. The idea that the aniamals have human personalities was very cool and intersting. I recomend this to anyone who hasn't already read it in school. But it is much more brutal and violent than the Disney movies, with themes of rape and canniblism (among others).