A review by papi
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

2.0

This was the book that turned me off to the rest of the Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In my mind, Opar marked the beginning of ERB's efforts to milk the Tarzan legend. It is poorly written and poorly conceived and its only reason for being appears to have been to make money. Unlike his other extended series (the Martian series), the Tarzan novels that followed his first three seemd to me to have been written with little effort to entertain. I started a few of them, but they all seemed marked by the same drudgery in writing and imagination as Opar. Too bad.