There were several elements of this book that I highly enjoyed. For one the writing was at times vibrant and rich. For another it was an entertaining adventure novel. Although I fail to see why this is on the 1001 list and Fahrenheit 451 is not. Come on list makers pick up your game.There is little ...
Son of Man, look to the sky Lift your spirit, set it free Some day you'll walk tall with pride Son of Man, a man in time you'll be - Phil Collins, Son of ManJohn and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke, are left to fend for themselves in the jungles of Africa where their son, John Cl...
The first and best book about Tarzan. The credibility of this kind of stories is questionable, but it reads well, and you do not see the flaws immediately. Simply a good and entertaining read.
This book is more complexe than all the stories I always heard about it, and it gets into the part of the Apes, and this is very interesting. I mean, how a human baby that have grown without any ethic can be moral? Burroughs wants to make his little boy to be a "perfect" example of human being, or ...
I read some books because they have entered the culture, spawning multiple versions of themselves in other media and I just want to find out what the original story and concepts were and if they were any good. Examples would be Frankenstein and Dracula. Tarzan is also such a one.It was interesting t...
I had never read any of Burroughs' Tarzan novels while growing up, and decided that now was a good time to rectify the oversight.Tarzan of the Apes introduces us to the unknowing Lord Greystoke and details his childhood and youth in Africa. Tarzan teaches himself to read using primers he finds in h...
This book was actually very good considering the blatant racism and the complete social unbalance between many of the characters. However, the reader must realize the time it was written in and the intent of the writer.It's a good read if you can get past some of the terms. A good look into the soci...
As I read this in 1965 I can tell you what I remember most about it. I remember the baby in the crib up in the treehouse. His parents were dead. The ape-mother clutching its dead infant to her breast examines the human child. She tenderly picks up the baby and puts her own dead baby in the crib and ...
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