A review by lesserjoke
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.0

If you can get past all the early-twentieth-century racism, this first Tarzan novel is a pretty fun adventure story. It's complete pulp fiction with larger-than-life escapades and improbable developments, but sometimes that sort of romp is just what you need in a book. Unfortunately, the author's prejudicial ideas of white nobility and black savagery make it really hard for a modern reader to just sit back and enjoy these capers for what they are.