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Summary: Meet the real Tarzan; where it all began!
Review: TARZAN OF THE APES tells the original story of the nearly invincible ape man. Burroughs tells a gripping story of how Tarzan became what he is. Read this novel and discover for yourself just why the Tarzan legend continues to intrigue people of all ages! You'll read this one and want to complete the series!
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Summary: Words can hardly do this justice.
Review: Here is a story of a man who sought true love. A man who would give his life for the simple chance to be with his "mate". That man is Tarzan. He, although born in the jungle, raised by an ape, and enjoys good red meat, is the embodiment of "chivalry". Even when the opportunity came to claim the thing he held dearest in his life, he tossed it aside nonchalantly in order to preserve the dignity of someone who had once scorned him in the spell of jealousy before. One would definately associate with Tarzan throughout the book because all the different trials he faces--bullies, loves, and values--would be experienced by all, if not now, then later. I highly recommend this book for anyone over age 14 (otherwise many of the deeper meanings of the book would be overlooked). Alas, the rating system in amazon.com (saw the 60 Minutes thingy--cheerio!) only sports 5 stars. I would have given six (or seven), easily. (if anyone was curious, I read this book on July 6, 1999 being at the 'interesting' age of 15)
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Summary: .......
Review: I personally enjoyed the book, and finished reading it in just three days. The first few chapters were really good---exciting, gripping and helluva interesting. I couldn't put it down. The reason why i gave it 4 stars and not 5, however, was because i found the relationship between Tarzan and Jane so stale. It occupied only, say... a bit of the book? And everytime jane was mentioned, I wish the author painted a better picture of her. She was either invovled in some trouble and needed help from the hero ( it always seems so) OR she had fainted. Thank goodness the action saved everything. It isn't stomach-squirming bloody..... you feel like killing a lion or some animal after reading this book. read it for the action, but don't bet too much on Jane.
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Summary: One of the best books I've read - more than once!
Review: I was given my copy of this book by my dear grandmother, who used to obtain books for me from jumble sales. Heaven only knows how long it was sat on my shelf, unread, but when I finally did read it, it rapidly became one of those rare delights - a book I simply could not put down. It really is a truly engrossing story. Exciting, unusual, magnificently written, and I always seem to discover something new each time I read it. And I've read it at least 10 times now. I always find myself imagining the dense African jungle through which the "huge bull-apes" swing effortlessly, and the fights Tarzan has with other apes, and, of course with Sabor, the lioness, are worth reading just as they stand, without the rest of the book. Ever since I first finished the story I've wanted to get hold of the subsequent books - some further adventures of Tarzan. I'm sure they can only be just as good as this one.
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Summary: an engrossing and captivating book
Review: When I ws little my father and I would read this book together, which makes this book special for me. This year I read the book again. I couldn't stop reading it. I had to force myself to go to bed. The way Burroughs puts things is beatiful. He has captivated the true essence of the words he put on the paper. So many times you would think Tarzan would be dead of his comrads but he always seems to escape with grace and mystery. This book is perfect in every way and if you are looking for a good book t his is where to turn. There is no better way to put things than how he has and cannot be reproduced in any way. I am not the only one in my family that is entrance by this books spell. My father has read all of the Tarzan books at least twice. READ THIS BOOK! It has changed something inside me forever and It will you to.
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Summary: This became my life!!
Review: I only have a few words about this book. It changed my life, ever since the first time I read it(I've read it numorous times) my life has changed. I have so-called, became the Ape-Man myself.
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Summary: The fantastic romance of White Skin of the Apes
Review: Listed in Cawthorn's and Moorcock's "Fantasy: The 100 Best Books". The Weissmuller movies didn't get him right. The TV series haven't got him right. And the Disney movie CERTAINLY won't get him right. Burrough's original narration of the story of Tarzan is a mix of bloodthirsty savagery and unrestrained suspension of disbelief that few would attempt to capture these days. The Tarzan series is unique among his author's body of work. Where the Barsoom, Pellucidar and Caspak series concern modern men travelling to exotic lands and falling in love with native women, this time around it is a modern woman who comes to the wilderness and steals the heart of the savage protagonist, who must now step up to her civilized ways. The tale is laced with bloody scenes of man-against-man and man-against-beast rampage. The great apes among which Tarzan grows are a cannibal species, who eat the prisioners of raids against other simian clans. The king ape kills Tarzan's father in a moment where he is caught off guard, mourning the recent death of his wife. When Tarzan first encounters men (an African tribe), he hunts and kills one of them to steal his arrows (killing being the way of the jungle, since Tarzan knows nothing of human behavior). Also, these men turn out to be cannibals too. And when the white men finally arrive, they raid their village and kill almost every one in an attempt to rescue a captured comrade. After growing wild among beasts, Tarzan (whose name menas White Skin) realizes that he is different from his ape family. And through a series of inventions of his own (like making a rope) and fortunate coincides (like the use of a found hunting knife), he steps up the evolutionary ladder by himself. The moment he learns to read and write from illustrated primers and a dictionary is among the most improbable in the whole book. But if we have kept up with it until now, allowing ourselves to accept that a human child can be raised by apes, then his ascension to superiority isn't that hard to embrace. Tarzan turns out to be the primeveal lovesick nerd. After the first time he sees Jane Porter (the first white woman he ever casts his eyes on), his heart is all for her. He writes her a love letter, which smacks of the most pityful puppy love ("I want you. I am yours. You are mine... When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you"). Yet our hero is true and noble, and he holds the upper hand in his homeland. The girl can't do anything but be carried away by her primeveal pretender. I recommend you get this edition I'm reviewing, the one by Penguin. Besides the introduction which gives a valuable background to the place of Tarzan among popular literature and some details on the life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, it contains a series of notes that signal where he took some liberties with his story's setting (like placing American plants in the African jungle). The English is a little bit archaic, the characterization tends to cartoon and stereotype, but the story is powerful and nothing captures the beauty of the original like the original itself. Read Tarzan of the Apes, and meet again for the first time an archetypical hero of timeless charm.
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Summary: An adventure that will keep even reluctant readers entralled
Review: Burrough's Tarzan series is the perfect vehicle for capturing a young imagination. Burrough's use of verbal imagery causes the reader to feel sticky jungle air. Readers of all ages can't help but empathize with young Tarzan as he begins to explore his own identity and discovers inner strengths in the face of adversity. Tarzan's adventures are wonderfully akin to Robert E. Howard's "Conan, the Barbarian" in language and style.
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Summary: Awesome! Action Packed!
Review: An unforgetable classic that should be read by everyone
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Summary: AWESOME!!! RIVETING!! Intriguing!! Must Read!!!
Review: This has to be one of the BEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN! I read this first as a teenager, now my 13 year old son is reading it. Matthew is now on book 15, he reads Tarzan constantly. We have the entire Tarzan series, plus almost everything else Burroughs has written. He really knows how to make a book come alive. Once you start, you can't put it down. The movies that have been made based on Burroughs books can't begin to compare to the novels. When I asked Matthew to review this book his first word quoted mine..."AWESOME"! Tarzan, and his creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs are TOTALLY AWESOME! We need to purchase a new Tarzan series (again!) because ours is falling apart from being read so much, plus Matthew wants a set of his own. What a classic! Destined to still be popular for it's centennial celebration!
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