Not your movie Tarzan. Those loooking for Cheetah, see the movies. Tarzan here is hanging out with a pack of great apes and a leopard. Others have recapped the plot. A good solid Tarzan adventure from 1914.

"We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manners and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us."Journey continues with the third book of the series. Compared to first two books, this one lags a bit behind in terms of entertaining nature in my opinion, but still a good read.

I see a lot of people complaining that this book is unrealistic. Well, you are reading turn of the century pulp adventure, so of course it is! That would be like reading a fantasy novel and complaining that all of the elves and magic is unrealistic. I, for one, really liked this volume. Tarzan leads an army of trained gorillas to battle while his pet panther rips the throats out of his enemies. If that sentence didn't immediately make you want to read this, then move on. If you are looking for s...

If the first two books were the origin story, this is like an epilogue to that origin. As things open, Tarzan and Jane and new baby Jack Clayton are making a home for themselves in London; then Jack is kidnapped (by Rokoff and Paulvitch, the evil Russian villains -- think turn-of-the-20th-century parodies of "revolutionaries" and "anarchists"; Paulvitch is even a literal bomb-maker -- of The Return of Tarzan), Tarzan sets out to rescue him and thence commences the usual Burroughsian mix of breat...

Another action packed Tarzan novel. This one was a bit of a contradiction. On one hand this may have been my favorite of the Tarzan books so far, but on the other hand it was a little more far-fetched then even the previous novels. (If it gets more far-fetched than a human raised by apes, that is.)I liked this one because Tarzan led a tribe of Apes as well as a panther in battle against evil. But as you can imagine, it requires some suspension of disbelief, especially when they all get on a sail...

Yeah, more Burroughs - read it on my smartphone. This was arguably, a bit sexist, and/or racist, again, arguably, although not for the times, considering it is early 20th century fiction. The main thing is, Tarzan has A PET LEOPARD, and loyal band of giant apes in this one, who chew up his enemies through the course of many adventures. Come on. A PET LEOPARD! While I cannot deny the appeal of this type of reading for me, living in cube land by day, and make no excuses for it, I think that my rea...

I hadn't read a Tarzan book in a while and was eager to return to his jungle world. My copy is illustrated and I loved the drawings.

To celebrate "Tarzan of the Apes"'s centennial this month--Edgar Rice Burroughs' first Tarzan novel was released in the October 1912 issue of "All-Story Magazine"--I have been compulsively reading the first novels in what eventually became a series of some two dozen books. Book #2, "The Return of Tarzan" (1913), was a fairly direct sequel to the initial classic outing, while book #3, "The Beasts of Tarzan," picks up the tale several years later. This novel originally appeared in serial form in t...

Third in the series. After "Return of," which was a foray into John Buchan style espionage fare, this one is very satisfyingly jungle-oriented, and also includes Jane taking on some courageous action-hero duties. The story is unashamedly bloodthirsty in places—not at all like the sanitized Tarzan of film. Tarzan is quite capable of sinking down into savagery—snapping the neck of a villainous henchman, even while Jane begs him to spare the guy; then he impatiently discards the corpse over his sho...

The third Tarzan novel, originally published as a serial in 1914, sees our hero brought back to the African jungle from his London home when his wife, Jane, and their son, Jack are kidnapped by his familiar Russian enemies. A truly impressive number of twists, double twists, mistaken identities, racial stereotypes, and use of the word "thews" (I had to look it up!) ensues. Jane refreshingly gets chapters all to herself and manages to do a great job taking care of herself. Tarzan builds himself a...

The third installment of my (most likely) month of Tarzan. I really liked this one, priimarily because it sees Jane Porter, once the archetypal love interest/damsel in distress, take the initiative and do some action-heroing (heroineing?) without her husband, Tarzan of the Apes. The first time she leveled a heavy rifle at some fool Russian's head I almost giggled with glee. The rest of the story is pretty standard Tarzan fare, the imagery of Tarzan's new gang sailing down the river is a fearsome...

Even though the Tarzan stories are over 60 years old they remain timeless. These books are fantastic reading. These books make all the movies and cartoons seem meaningless. Highly recommended

A third book of Tarzan adventures. I liked it more than the second one. It is very fast paced with a lot of adventures happening. The story is really good and exciting. Both Tarzan's and Jane's adventures are fun to follow. It is pretty great what an army Tarzan has as well as his pet leopard who helps him on the way. A book that was written over 100 years ago which one can see in the language but is still very exciting and eventful. Now I wonder what the next book will be like and if at some po...

This third book picks up some time after the events of the first two (the first two essentially being one complete tale). Seems as if Tarzan has already established his African estate, and he and Jane divide their time between Africa and London. The book opens with Tarzan receiving the news that the previous book's antagonist Nikolas Rokoff has escaped from prison. Together with Alexander Paulvich, he plots to kidnap Tarzan and Jane's infant son in a crazy act of revenge involving handing the ba...

Once again, I decided to listen to an audio book on a long ride, and this was the one I stumbled across. I had recently mentioned online that Tarzan of the books was articulate and intelligent, in contrast to his film version, but I knew this by reputation only, as I had never read a Tarzan book. Indeed, the book confirmed, but also complicated that view. When at home with Jane in England, Lord Greystoke speaks perfectly good English, and he can call upon that ability in the jungle as well when

I bought this huge collection of 25 Tarzan novels, I think for only $0.99 a few years ago. I am slowly going through it. Just now finishing off Tarzan #3: The Beasts of Tarzan. I read the first 7 books way back about 30+ years ago, but now with this collection I aim to continue on and read them all. Lot of good ole Tarzan type action. And yes, written to reflect the times the author lived in.

“The Beasts of Tarzan”, the third book by Edgar Rice Burroughs to feature his famous leopard-print-loinclothed hero, sees our hero, Lord Greystoke, on a chase to save his newborn infant son from the vile hands of Russian ne-’er-do-well Nikolas Rokoff and his partner-in-crime, Alexis Paulvitch, who have escaped from prison.The villains take the kidnapped boy to a jungle island, luring both Tarzan and Jane into a trap. Unfortunately, husband and wife are separated, neither one knowing the fate of

Here's the deal. Edgar Rice Burrows wrote racist things in his Tarzan books. He didn't have a terribly high view of Africans. Sometimes the racism is overt, and sometimes it's more subtle, but it's there. The question for me is whether I want to let this racism ruin what are otherwise reasonably entertaining novels. I'm reading these in order, and I felt like the first two novels had "I'm going to enjoy these books but not recommend them to my nephews" levels of racism. The racism is bad, to be

I've read very little Burroughs and no Tarzan so when I found this slim volume going cheap at a con I grabbed it. The writing style is fairly simplistic but once you get past that and the casual racism (the assumption that white men are superior to the jungle 'savages' is omnipresent but not pushed down your throat; and a tribe leader that Tarzan befriends is counted as one of the eponymous 'beasts' of Tarzan) it's quite a fun story. Tarzan's arch-nemesis Nikolas Rokoff has escaped from prison a...

- So, your third Tarzan in a row, huh?- Yes.- How was it?- Same old, same old.- What do you mean?- Well, Tarzan got in trouble, rushes through the jungle, kills, hunts, eats raw meat etc. Almost gets killed a couple times. Things like that.- There must be more to it than only that?- Oh, yeah. This time he hunts the bad guy together with a bunch of beasts; mostly apes but also a panther.- Sounds weird.- Not much weirder than Jungle Book, I’d say. The whole posse reminded me of the evil twins of B...