The more one knows of one's religion the less one believesThe Return of Tarzan ~~ Edgar Rice BurroughsHaving thoroughly enjoyed Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes, I immediately dove into the second book of the series, The Return of Tarzan. This was another quick read, and it too was a fun, old school pulp adventure.The Return of Tarzan picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off; as the adventure begins, we find Tarzan returning to Paris and planning his next expedition.As I was reading Th...

Tarzan is simply a white SuperCaptainCoolMan. That's all there is to it. With sinewy arms of steel forged in the leafy shadows of the darkest jungles--you get the picture. The silliest theme in the book is Tarzan's de-evolution from a gentleman in Paris to the ape-man rampaging through the jungle with his primate brethren. The not-so-subtle social Darwinism featured in all the Tarzan books is annoying if you can't get past the stupid ideas of previous generations--maybe in 75 years people will b...

I'm pretty sure I gave Tarzan of the Apes 5 stars, so I have to give this one the same. It's really one, 2 part book. It is better in one way, much of Burroughs earlier seeming racism is gone. Otherwise, it is just a continuation of the basis for a story we've all come to know so well. It relies heavily on coincidence, monumentally stupid bravery & sheer magic, but it's a heck of a lot of fun.

Sequels always get compared to the first in the series for evident reasons. This is a case where the second book has almost nothing in common with the first so the issue is more that the genre seems to have switched and it feels less like a sequel and more like a separate story with the same character (kind of? I wanted more ape-man Tarzan than civilized hero Tarzan). The first half reads like a Russian spy novel, with none of the apes and lions and African Jungle. That is my warning to anyone l...

Tarzan, grieving his beloved Jane who will soon marry another, sets off to visit France. Where of course he causes problems with Russian blackmailers, becomes a spy for the French government, and ends up back in Africa. There's lots of fighting, lots of yelling, lost cities are rediscovered, gold is found, lions are killed with Tarzan's bare hands! It's pretty much exactly what you would expect. Although I was shocked by the cannibalism. Like, white Europeans deciding to eat each other. That was...

As I read this book over the last few weeks, I remembered and recognized more and more parts of it --finally, including the ending-- and realized that I'd read it before as a kid. (Evidently, I did so after reading part of it at a friend's house; but had forgotten the title of what I'd read there, and so came to think that episode involved a different book.) The re-reading, after a lapse of nearly 50 years, was fresh and enjoyable once again; in fact, it made me recall how much I enjoyed the ori...

At the end of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “Tarzan of the Apes”, Tarzan (a.k.a. Lord Greystoke) arrived in America to see the woman he loves, Jane Porter, engaged to marry another, a man who claimed a title that Tarzan, by all rights, should have claimed. Dejected, Tarzan returns to Paris, melancholy but with the knowledge that what he was doing was the decent thing to do.“The Return of Tarzan”, Burroughs’s sequel (the first of 23) to his immensely popular novel that introduced the world to one of the...

"Tarzan of the Apes"left Tarzans' story a bit on a cliffhanger, where Jane Porter had promised her hand to Clayton Greystoke who was currently the heir to the Greystoke fortune. Tarzan walked away without claiming his love and fortune. So we meet up with Tarzan on a boat headed for Europe on his way back to the African jungle. When we meet him again he is being very much appreciated by a young Russian comtessa whose marriage and reputation is in danger from two Russian hoodlums who find themselv...

EXTRA! EXTRA!{Paris; France}TARZAN OF THE APES RESCUES YOUNG AND PRETTY RUSSIAN COUNTESS FROM SOCIAL EMBARRASSMENTBusts heads of malicious scoundrels in the process {Sidibel-Abbes; Algeria}APE-MAN RESCUES YOUNG AND PRETTY OULED-NAIL DANCER FROM SLAVERYBusts heads of malicious scoundrels in the process{Sahara desert; North Africa}JUNGLE LORD GOT RESCUED FROM EXECUTION BY YOUNG AND PRETTY OULED-NAIL DANCERKills malicious lions in the process{Jungle; West Africa}KING OF THE JUNGLE RESCUES BLACK WAR...

3.5 stars. This is a very uneven book. The first half is just ok, and deals with Tarzan travelling around the world and getting into various scraps and scrapes. The second half, on the other hand, is really great. Tarzan returns to the jungle and has to deal with a lost city, an ancient civilization of beast-men, and murderous pagan rituals. The two halves are only connected by the fact that they include the same mustache-twirling villain that keeps showing up and screwing around with Tarzan. In...

My daughter is being encouraged by her teacher to get a little variety in her reading, and maybe I'm trying for the same in going back to books that captivated me when I was about her age. Well, no, not exactly. The real reason is that I've been feeling the pressures of life more keenly than usual and wanted an escape.I read all the Tarzan books so many times way back in my youth that I still remember them fairly well. Remembered liking this one in particular, perhaps because it moves our hero t...

"Raised as I have been, I see no worth in man or beast that is not theirs by virtue of their own mental or physical prowess."The book #2 of Tarzan series is felt more like the missing part of the first book rather than a new journey. Don't get me wrong, because first one was amazing and one will not feel it to be incomplete. But after reading the second, it'll bring you more closure in certain areas. Loved this one just as the first book."Brutes are more chivalrous than man-they do not stop to c...

Another readable adventure story which my two boys enjoyed, this one is a direct sequel to the first book (Tarzan of the Apes). The book has many flaws, but there is enough action, intrigue, shipwrecks, savages, and romance to keep the story moving along. Recommended.

So good. I really don't like Rokoff. And then Clayton. ;'( But Tarzan and Jane. :D <3

The completion of the tale begun in Tarzan of the Apes. New characters are introduced. Tarzan finds a lost city, Opar, which may have been built by people from Atlantis before it sank. Pulp adventure at its best.

Tarzan smokes cigarettes, drinks absinthe and says, “Mon Dieu!” That’s in between beatin’ the bad guys and dazzlin’ the ladies.I found the second volume of the Tarzan series to be just as good as the first, just as exciting, interesting and action packed. Those who know me might say, “Yeah, Justin, but that’s because you’re a little kid and you like this sort of thing.” Not so, folks. Well, I do like this sort of thing and I don’t often win awards for stoic maturity but Burroughs is no slouch an...

Tarzan, becomes super rich, how he does it, its so round about and filled with adventure, battles, & stealthy acts, so much action jammed into so little space just picks up straight from the first book. He's in the USA, decides he needs to marry Jane..hah..German gut laugh.. he's travelling on a ship, meets a count who is thankful as he prevents a crime against him, but Tarzan creates an enemy a Russian professional criminal Rokoff who wants revenge regardless of the cost. He befriends the count...

Essentially, this is the second half of Tarzan's origin story. At the end of Tarzan of the Apes, after rescuing Jane Porter from a forest fire in backwoods Wisconsin, Tarzan had concealed his identity as John Clayton, the true Lord Greystoke, so as not to interfere with Jane's professed intention to marry his cousin William Cecil Clayton, who had inherited the title after Tarzan's father disappeared with no known heir. (Burroughs does love to throw these kinds of stumbling blocks into the way.)A...

After renouncing his claim to the love of Jane Porter at the end of the previous novel, Tarzan has an eventful career as a French secret agent among the Arabs, the chief of an African tribe, and the captive of sun-worshipping subhumans, all culminating in a suspenseful reunion with his true love.All of the pros and cons that can be cited for any Edgar Rice Burroughs story can be cited for this one as well. There is a continual and often ridiculous reliance on coincidence to move the action forwa...