false 40425 95 First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. <I>Tarzan of the Apes</i> is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare. <p> The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." 1774048 book 1914 Tarzan of the Apes total:2005|5:545|4:739|3:561|2:127|1:33| 2005 7651 2613 276 609057 0140184643 9780140184648 25 7 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176265583m/609057.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/609057.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 3 5 false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 22:21:30 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 08:14:44 -0800 2009
I went in with low expectations and enjoyed it more than 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 ...more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 3 6 false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 15:25:56 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 06:04:11 -0800 2009
The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred "classic" books, th...more...]]> 3783924 8 3 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216285124m/3783924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3783924.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 2 3 false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 16:56:18 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 00:34:33 -0800 2009
One of the major inspiration...more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 4 4 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Apr 05 17:14:51 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 17:21:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 4 4 false Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 23:32:34 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 13:41:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 7108669 1 1 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1257555446m/7108669.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108669-tarzan-of-the-apes 4 2 false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 06:07:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 17:44:33 -0700 2008
Then, the last two chapters blew me away. They kicked my a...more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 5 2 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975 Sat Feb 23 01:32:41 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 09:37:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 168441 1593082274 9781593082277 62 12 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168441.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 5 2 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 09:54:20 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 09:59:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2352457 0345227018 9780345227010 10 2 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1239115659m/2352457.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2352457.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 5 1 false Sat Nov 28 08:05:09 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 09:13:38 -0800 2009 "Tarzan" evokes many well-deserved images of cheesiness. The Burroughs series itself after the first couple of books becomes pretty bad pul...more...]]> 609057 0140184643 9780140184648 25 7 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176265583m/609057.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/609057.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 3 1 false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 16:47:50 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 12:29:38 -0700 2009 Tarzan story and its characters. There have been many official Tarzan movies over the years and many stories and other movies that refer to or borrow from the Tarzan mythos. To a large extent, I went into this first Tarzan book (there were o...more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 4 2 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1965 Thu Nov 13 09:52:18 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 09:55:17 -0800 2008 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 4 1 false Sat Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Dec 05 03:25:03 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 03:29:29 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 4 1 false Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 25 04:25:12 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 05:48:44 -0800 2008 At the Earth's Core* a few years ago (the only ERB book I had read until now) but *Tarzan of the Apes* still has many strengths. ERB's main quality as a writer is his momentum: he creates a real sense of urgency in the reader to k...more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 4 1 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967 Wed Feb 13 06:36:47 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 16 20:51:45 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 3 1 false Thu Jan 17 14:32:26 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 14:32:31 -0800 2008
I expected not to enjoy this book very much. I never found Tarzan to be a very...more...]]> 563315 0451524233 9780451524232 156 19 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175818436m/563315.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563315.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 5 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 16:42:07 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 16:44:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 168441 1593082274 9781593082277 62 12 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168441.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 4 0 false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 08:22:12 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 08:34:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3607590 0451531027 9780451531025 24 5 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3607590.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 4 0 true Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Feb 17 20:39:15 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 20:39:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2726834 0486295702 9780486295701 7 3 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255636535m/2726834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2726834.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 5 1 false Fri Aug 28 16:55:36 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 17:21:49 -0700 2009
i always thought edgar rice burroughs was supposed to be a joke... like, pulpy nonsense... lots of over-emoting... i don't know what...

but this book is amazing! i mean, yeah, there's a cer...more...]]> 40425 0809599813 9780809599813 1490 188 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169434153m/40425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes 3 0 false Tue May 19 18:24:53 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 18:37:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=168441