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book_bookman 's review for:
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Audiobook
I was expecting this to be more of an adventure yarn like “A Princess of Mars”, but this is largely adventure-free. Instead it’s a mishmash of painfully outdated Edwardian-era theories of heredity and eugenics type stuff, plus a convoluted love triangle and a bunch of other bizarre side tangents.
This was akin to reading “Frankenstein” and being shocked by how different the literary version is from the pop culture version. Tarzan barely interacts with Jane? Tarzan’s real name is John?? He taught himself to read but didn’t learnt to speak until a French guy taught him basic French??? A really weird and super racist time.
I was expecting this to be more of an adventure yarn like “A Princess of Mars”, but this is largely adventure-free. Instead it’s a mishmash of painfully outdated Edwardian-era theories of heredity and eugenics type stuff, plus a convoluted love triangle and a bunch of other bizarre side tangents.
This was akin to reading “Frankenstein” and being shocked by how different the literary version is from the pop culture version. Tarzan barely interacts with Jane? Tarzan’s real name is John?? He taught himself to read but didn’t learnt to speak until a French guy taught him basic French??? A really weird and super racist time.