Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes How is this book unique Illustrations Included Free Audiobook Unabridged Edition Original Edition E Reader friendly Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan It was first published in the pulp magazine All Story Magazine in October, 1912 The character was so popular that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels. Read Tarzan of the Apes – kino-fada.fr Viscount Greystoke will see you now One of the advantages of riding the subway to work is getting extra reading time Coming home, though, I often have to stand for a good while before I can get a seat As it is not comfortable wrangling the actual book I am reading at a given time while standing, I lift my trusty iTouch and am able to read a bit until the crowd thins I save my hardcore reading for when I am sitting and can take notes iTouch reading is of a different sort, at least it has b Viscount Greystoke will see you now One of the advantages of riding the subway to work is getting extra reading time Coming home, though, I often have to stand for a good while before I can get a seat As it is not comfortable wrangling the actual book I am reading at a given time while standing, I lift my trusty iTouch and am able to read a bit until the crowd thins I save my hardcore reading for when I am sitting and can take notes iTouch reading is of a different sort, at least it has been to date Nothing too challenging Tarzan of the Apes was a free download from somewhere I cannot recall I had first read this, of course, back in my wastrel youth, in the early 60s most likely Wh...Tarzan of the Apes was a pulp classic that spawned a slew of sequels, movies, radio and television shows and a community in California I was surprised, pleasantly by the style of writing, Edgar Rice Burroughs w...Pulp fiction at its best I went in with low expectations and enjoyed itthan I thought I would It s pulp fiction, but it s good pulp a fun romp and so very very silly Burroughs buys into all the prejudices of his time, but it s tough to blame him for being merely mortal Ignore it He s no worse than JM Barrie or Kipling I ve shelved it under Fantasy, and that s what it is There may be no Middle Earth or magic, but a novel where a child brought up among apes learns to read without hum Pulp fiction at its best I went in with low expectations and enjoyed itthan I thought I would It s pulp fiction, but it s good pulp a fun romp and so very very silly Burroughs buys into all the prejudices of his time, but it s tough to blame him for being merely mortal Ignore it He s no worse than JM Barrie or Kipling I ve shelved it under Fantasy, and that s what it is There may be no Middle Earth or mag...Remember this I liked that movie when I was younger Being the bookworm I am, as soon as I found out it was based in a book, I wanted to read it, thinking what I m sure most of us think when a book has movies Surely it is better And since the movie I knew is Disney s, then my second thought was It s gonna be hella different to the movie, and maybe even a childhood ruiner.Only the second of my thoughts was right Because Tarzan of the Apes is almost like an ode to insta love and, above a Remember this I liked that movie when I was younger Being the bookworm I am, as soon as I found out it was based in a book, I wanted to read it, thinking what I m sure most of us think when a book has movies Surely it is better And since the movie I knew is Disney s, then my second thought was It s gonna be hella different to the movie, and maybe even a childhood ruiner.Only the second of my thoughts was right Because Tarzan of the Apes is almost like an ode to insta love and, above all things, stalking.We all know the story, don t we A couple gets lost somewhere in Africa, they have a son there, but they die before him growing up After that, some apes come into their cabin, and one of them Kala decides to take the child as her own and raise him as if he were an ape....Here the fountainhead the story buried below a myriad adaptations E R Burroughs s dream did come true after all his Tarzan spun off into countless later tales films heck, even Broadway musicals Read this scant but brutal adventure tale with its due respect, for it includes examples of poetic and natural justice often tableaux with two male warrior bodies battling it out always a spectacle to behold cannibalism animal eroticism killer savage hot ness plot twists and Here the fountainhead the story buried below a myriad adaptations E R Burroughs s dream did come true after all his Tarzan spun off into countless later tales films heck, even Broadway musicals Read this scant bu...I must say, I was expectingfrom this book It takes inspiration from a wide array of very good adventure novels, but manages to bebigoted than the colonial literature that inspired it and less factual and forward looking than books written thirty years before.One of the major inspirations is H Rider Haggard s early pulp adventure stories, including the tales of Allan Quatermain Like Tarzan, these stories take place in the depths of colonial Africa, but the attitudes and portrayal o I must say, I was expectingfrom this book It takes inspiration from a wide array of very good adventure novels, but manages to bebigoted than the ...Ah, how to begin Tarzan raised me from a little boy and helped me become a man After the Bobsey Twins, Hardy Boys, and, yes, Nancy Drew, I admit, came Tarzan, Return of Tarzan, Beasts of Tarzan, Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, yes 24 in all, and then the Mars series, and Moon, and Venus, and Pellucidar, I own over 65 Edgar Rice Burroughs books, but Tarzan was an inspriation to me, so I have to give the credit to this book, despite its flaws, for many happy hours of reading Ah, how to begin Tarzan raised me from a little boy and helped me become a man After the Bobsey Twins, Hardy Boys,...I feel like I ve been waiting for a book like this my entire life, and here it was all this time, published long before I was even born.Is the light cast upon race and gender in this novel wrong and inappropriate Most definitely However, I read this book ignoring these things, not out of ignorance as the word would imply, but with an acceptance of the flaws, and deciding instead to fall in love with the adventure and the horrible violence of Tarzan s growing up in the jungle I didn t read thi I feel like I ve been waiting for a book like this my entire life, and here it was all this time, published long before I was even born.Is the light cast upon race and gender in this novel wrong and inappropriate Most definitely However, I read this book ignoring these things, not out of ignorance as the word would imply, but with an acceptance of the flaws, and deciding instead to fall in love with the adventure and the horrible violence of Tarzan s growing up in the jungle I didn t read this looking for a realistic survival study on apes and men either I was not expecting the gritty and gruesome nature of the story, as my only experience of Tarzan prior to reading this novel is with the Disney animated movie version...Tarzan has become a larger than life myth that supersedes his own literary footprint signature traits like his yodeling yell and broken English me Tarzan, you Jane greeting are actually a Hollywood variation from the original story Burroughs tale of an Englishman raised by apes in the unexplored jungles of Africa was written and published in pulp magazine installments over 100 years ago, and many parts haven t aged particularly well Burroughs characterizat...An extremely racist book with a premise based on eugenics Not how you remember the Disney version Tarzan is all strong and intelligent and special and amazing Why Because he has the genetics of a well bred, white, European, aristocrat Oh, and the whole thing about encountering other humans for the first time He s seen humans around before, but, you know, they were Africans they re primitive and stupid and clearly don t count But other white people revelation of revelations You re sma An extremely racist book with a premise based on eugenics Not how you remember the Disney version Tarzan is all strong and intelligent and special and amazing Why Because he has the genetics of a well bred, white, European, aristocrat Oh, and the whole thing about...

• English
• 22 June 2017
Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Paperback
• 324 pages
• 0809599813
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Tarzan of the Apes