Tarzan of the Apes

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Summary: If you pick up a book,make sure you get this one.
Review: This was a great book from beginning to end. It had a great story line and a good ending to it. I really liked reading this story and it's really the first I would really recomend for someone to pick up. that's why I gave this book a five-star rating.

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Summary: Tarzan was an exciting adventurous book.
Review: Tarzan was a book that kept me waiting to find out what happened next. It is a story about a man who, as a child, was adopted by an ape when his own parents died in a forest in Africa which no men lived in. The story follows him as he grows through all the adventures that he has and even as he falls in love with the beutifull Jane. To find out more you muts read it yourself.

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Summary: It took too long to get to the point of the story.
Review: Tarzan is about a little boy that gets stuck on the island when he is first born and after a few days or months the Apes attacked his family and killed them. After the Apes killed his mother and father the Apes took him out of his crib and they dropped their own dead fetus. They took Tarzan. A few years later Tarzan became a heathy young man.Tarzan was removed from the jungle and was moved with one of his family members. Well this family member died so Tarzan returned to the jungle again.Thats my review of this book and I didnt like it, so I would not tell others to read this book.

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Summary: NOT a chessey novel, but A well written story
Review: This book is a classic. It is not at all the chessy sterio-type "Me Tarzan, You Jane" that has overtaken our society. It is a classic tale that sweeps you away, and the writing is sophisticated enough to make this tale seem real. Whether you believe it or not--well, that's up to you.

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Summary: Tarzan...role model for the youth of America!
Review: As a young teen I began reading the Tarzan series...I read all that were available at the time, and I read them many, many times. I always believed, and always will, that Tarzan is a wonderful role model for humanity to follow. He is the noblest of all the beasts, including Man. His heroism and strength combined with his compassion and intelligence make for a superhero of almost Godlike proportions...yet, not beyond the reach of the impressionable minds of a developing teen. I recommend this series of books to all parents out there if you want your child to have a positive role model in this world of not so desireable public figures. Tarzan is so much more than an ape man...he is the original SUPERMAN!

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Summary: An Unknown Classic Today
Review: I found it quite refrshing to read a novel with vocabulary. I've become very disappointed with todays papermill of novel with the same old bland plot written to sell so I've returned to classics such as Tarzan which I've never read before now. I sure wish I had read this as a kid. Great stuff. I've passed them on to my young nephew. A good plot with a James Bond style adventure.

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Summary: The most famous feral man adventure romance of all time.
Review: Edgar Rice Burroughs created in Tarzan of the Apes, the single most recognized character around the world. The story of an orphaned human baby raised by apes and coming into his own in the savage jungle of turn of the century Africa is both gripping and thoughtful.

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Summary: A must-read for every man or ape around the world.
Review: I first read this book when I was 10 years old, and it hasn't left me ever since. Never mind the cultural mistakes that E.R. Burroughs makes every now and then, this book is surely a classic adventure tale for all time.

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Summary: Read this and the next three.
Review: Tarzan of the Apes is a great book that most people, mistakenly, will think they know about. They are mistaken because most people know Tarzan from the movies, TV, comics, etc. which do not come close to portraying the book. The first four books in the series (Tarzan of the Apes, Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, and Son of Tarzan) should be read as a series of 5-star books that tell a continuous, exciting, and engrossing story. These books can be re-read dozens of times as the years go by and still seem exciting each time (even 50 years later). Most of the other books in the Tarzan series are still enjoyable, and recommended, but they are a bit formulaic, especially the late ones.

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Summary: The first volume in the series that brought us the apeman.
Review: Edgar Rice Burroughs improbable but entertaining novel of a young English lord (Greystoke) and his wife marooned on the west coast of Africa. Both die shortly after the birth of their son, who is adopted by Kala, a female great ape who has lost her own baby. In best Darwinian fashion, the child thrives on jungle life. In Tarzan, we have the physical perfection of a wild animal that is guided and animated by a human brain. Lots of fun adventures here. Good old-fashioned escapist reading. Caution: This book will be considered racist (somatotyping, etc) by modern standards but was (sadly) well within the societal norms of its day.