The Return of Tarzan, Vol. 2

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of my all-time favorite books by one of my favorite authors. The five book Tarzan series is one of my favorite series that are now considered classics. As with any series I recommend that the books be read in the order in which they were written but like with every well-written series, they can be read and enjoy in any order. The Tarzan Series has been in my library for almost seventy years, not the same volumes. I’ve had to replace individual books several times over the years because I read them so many times that the pages would fall out.The five book Tarzan series had something for every reader. Romance, mystery, suspense and adventure, it was all there. Burroughs had a way of hooking his readers and keep them turning the pages without throwing in a lot of gratuitous sex and violence. There was violence where violence was essential to the story but it was never overdone simply for shock purposes and there never was any gratuitous sex. As for sex, it hinted sex at but never overt.If you have never read the Tarzan Series, if you have never read Edgar Rice Burroughs you are missing out on some superb stories by a master storyteller. Read him!

Ape Man! In this, the second book in the Tarzan series, we find Jean C. Tarzan...and, Yes, he is almost an honorary Frenchman...in Paris after rescuing Jane from a Wisconsin forest fire (TARZAN OF THE APES). While he does enjoy the nightlife there, drinking absinthe and smoking French cigarettes, there still beats the heart of a savage. This is most evident when he is attacked by apaches...violent members of the French underworld...and turns into a dangerous beast before their very eyes. There's nothing more than a good fight, except for the tender touch of Jane, to get Tarzan's blood flowing to all the necessary parts of his extremely muscular body.From Paris, he travels to the Sahara, where he learns to speak passable Arabic (which comes in handy later on), back to his beloved African jungle, searches for gold in the ruins of the fabled Lost City of Opar, and finally returns to the small house where he was born on the coast of Darkest Africa. Along the way he encounters more villains and blood thirsty humans than you can shake a spear at. Oh, and he does manage to once again save Jane from death, and fates worse than, along the way.Some here have said there were too many coincidences in this book for their liking. I rather enjoyed them as they took Tarzan from one perilous adventure to another seamlessly, while the reader is carried along with the Ape Man from cliffhanger to cliffhanger. This is escapist entertainment at its outrageous best. 5 Stars

************ Warning, this review contains some small spoilers for the first book and this book ************This book picks up a couple of weeks past the end of the first book. Tarzan is alone without his love on a ship and he meets the main bad guy of the book. Half of this story takes place outside of the jungle and the latter half takes place within the jungles of Africa. Tarzan moves along from civilized to savage and back to ape. We finally find out how he ends up with Jane and we get to meet La and Opar.I liked the overall story and how Tarzan is characterized. The biggest complaint I probably have is how often he allows the bad guy to leave without exacting any punishment. You can just see that he will regret much of this later (though when you think about it, it does allow Tarzan to end up with Jane in a round-about way).If you read the first book, you need to read this one to get the full story. If you are not planning on reading the first and just taking this book by itself, it is a good story about Tarzan but not his best.As far as the Kindle version:I saw no flaws in the text. The table of contents (unlike the first book) is a real table of contents. Also, unlike the first book, this one does support the new page numbers for Kindle. I have an old paperback version of this book and though the page nubers did not match, I was able to use them find some text because it was within a couple of pages.Like my review of the first book, I see no reason to buy a different version of this book when this one is free and without any flaws I could find.

provides an insight into the original intended audience. Not to be judged by current politics.

This is the book in which Tarzan gets Jane. (No, he didn't get her in the first book...only in the movie.)Interesting love triangle, made all the more interesting by Tarzan's wild adventures, some of them believable, some of them totally unbelievable, all of them capivating, exciting,and filled with action.You always know Tarzan, as other "good guys" of this age and genre, will win in the end, but sometimes you wonder how and if he will ever get there.Every chapter is like reading/watching one of the old serials movie theaters used to run between shows in the double featue on Satudays.Fun read. Good read. Go for it. You will feel like a kid again---and take it from this old man---that ain't all bad!!!!!

My review is for the Kindle version and audio add-on. First the text for Kindle was not properly edited and was entered with hard paragraph breaks in the middle of sentences, which causes annoying breaks in the sentence flow. So, you don't have normally formatted paragraphs. Second, the audio quality of the narration is poor. The actor/reader does a fair job, but his loud gasping breaths between sentences can be distracting at times. His French accent sounds so much like Steve Martin's French accent, that it makes me laugh! The story is fun but the number of coincidences and Tarzan's reluctance to rid himself of his archenemy strain credulity. Evenso, I'm enjoying it and recommend the audio version, but not this Kindle edition. Fortunately, I am listening more than reading. If I were only reading, the odd text breaks would drive me crazy.

Gostei muito do produto e da rápida entrega.

In this second Tarzan book, Edgar Rice Burroughs continues the epic tale of Tarzan. Working for the War Ministry of France as a special agent, Tarzan makes a deadly enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy the ape man. Cast adrift at sea, he survives the ordeal and voyages deep into the jungle to team up with the natives in foiling deadly raids, and exploring an ancient lost city where he almost loses his life. From the desert or Algeria, to the jungles of Tarzan’s youth, adventure after adventure leap off the pages.

Purchased this for my father as a birthday present and he loved it. The original Tarzan stories are a lot different to the way he is portrayed in film and on TV and, thus, if you like reading, my father would definitely recommend this and all the original Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan stories to you.

Este producto cumple con todas las características anunciadas por el vendedor. Satisfecho con la compra. Es un ebook que es ameno de leer.

Un roman qui nous ramène au source de la légende de Tarzan. Ce livre est la suite de Tarzan of the Apes, Tarzan poursuit son aventure qui le conduit en France en Afrique puis pour finir dans sa jungle natale où il découvre une ancienne citée.