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tome15 's review for:
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I really don't know how to rate this book. It is such a creature of its time. Having read it, after many years of seeing the movies, I am puzzled at its continuing popularity. There is sexism. There is racism. There's plenty of aristocratic fabtasy. These are to be expected in early 20th century popular fiction. However, I am at a loss to explain why we continue to evaluate so highly. One might compare it to the Zane Grey westerns. In those, at least we learn something about the old west. Here, we learn almost nothing about Africa. That is a shame.