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Tarzan Triumphant opens with a British woman named Barbara Collis flying over Africa when her plane runs out of gas and she's forced to parachute to safety. She lands right in the midst of a group of degenerate inbred Christians with big noses, weak chins and poor grooming habits. No, seriously. I'm not making that up. With their weak intellects the Christians assume this woman who descended from Heaven's must be an emissary from God but find it difficult to communicate with her given that they speak a language wholly unique to their group.

Meanwhile, a Chicago mobster named "Gunner" Patrick decides lay low for a while and takes a boat ride where he meets a young scholar named Lafayette Smith who is on his way to Africa for a scientific exploration. Meanwhile, a Russian named Leon Stabutch has been sent by Stalin himself to take revenge on Tarzan for meddling in Russian affairs in previous books. Meanwhile, an Italian named Dominic Capietro is leading a group of Afrikaners called shiftas who are terrorizing the countryside. Meanwhile, another safari led by a Lord Passmore is travelling around Africa. That's a lot of meanwhiles and a lot of threads in the story. Naturally these various characters will eventually bump into each other with Stabutch and Capietro being natural allies while Lafayette discovers Barbara Collis moments from her being killed. My absolutely favorite team up is Tarzan and "Gunner" Patrick with his tommy gun. He may be a gangster but his "typewriter" comes in quite handy in saving Tarzan.

I'm torn on this book. On the one hand there isn't much of a story. It's just a bunch of people running around Africa, occasionally colliding into each other, getting caught, escaping, getting caught again etc. The story isn't really about Tarzan and he's more of an enigmatic protector who periodically shows up to rescue the characters who are the actual focus of the book. On the other hand this is some of the more relaxed writing I've read by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the characters he creates are fairly entertaining. When "Gunner" Patrick uses his tommy gun to defend himself from a Lion, Tarzan gives him a gentle admonishment saying, "Don't use it for hunting." Barbara Collis teases Lafayette Smith for his poor marksmanship prompting him to respond saying, "Unfortunately, perhaps it never occurred to my parents to train me in the gentle art of murder." I really enjoyed some of the clever conversations in the book and that's not always the case. It's not all fun and light though as there are two of the most gruesome deaths in the series. Readers are reminded that if threatened Tarzan will kill brutally and without mercy.

I would categorize this as one of the better Tarzan books. The plot is forgettable but the writing is more fun than in a lot of the other books. I also felt the sparing usage of Tarzan improved the book. I've been reading the Tarzan comics of Russ Manning who felt that to know Tarzan you only needed to the read the first 12 books but I would say that this 15th book is better than a lot of those first dozen. In some cases significantly better.


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There’s something about the character Tarzan that still resonates with people today even more than 100 years after he was originally created. Television shows, radio shows, feature films, comic book adaptations, animated shows, and animated features have all contributed to this mythic character, while also mostly leaving some of the more unpleasant stuff aside. It can certainly be troubling to some to go back to the source of it all, Tarzan of the Apes, only to discover that it is chock full of sentiments that today’s readers may take great offense to. The discussion of racism and sexism in this novel, and frankly, of many thousands of novels written in less enlightened times than our own, is valid and worth having, but I won’t be having it here. Readers sensitive to those topics may want to proceed into Tarzan with caution or not at all. That said…

I had a great time reading Tarzan of the Apes, but it is absolutely a pulp novel. The plot is well known to most, the details probably less so, but there isn’t anything ground breaking going on here. Or is there? It’s hard to say. On one hand, like I pointed out above, Tarzan has been around for over a hundred years now. That certainly doesn’t rank him in Shakespearean terms, but outside of Sherlock Holmes, Zorro, or James Bond, I can’t think of many other characters that have persisted quite like that, barring the entrance of comic book super heroes. Tarzan serves as a kind of model man for young boys – like the ultimate Boy Scout. The boy Tarzan, like many boys, is born and feels mundane until that first look in the water reveals he is actually special. And over time, he learns to do things others can’t. This is the super hero origin part of the story, and it begins early on. Tarzan becomes capable of physical feats that mere men are not while at the same time, the other side of him becomes the learned English gentleman. In many ways, he foreshadows Bruce Wayne and Batman, except the disguise for Tarzan is absent. He lost his parents, was an outsider, trains his mind and body to super human levels, then re-enters society as a regular man. Outside of the losing your parents part, it isn’t hard to imagine this journey as that of a young boy’s fantasy. That alone doesn’t seem like quite enough to carry a dime story novel for a century though. Is there more? I feel like the further men of our current culture are separated from their traditional primitive roles of hunter gatherer, the greater the need and difficulty finding value and meaning in one’s own existence becomes. In that sense, I feel like Tarzan speaks to all the guys out there that are mild mannered, sit at a desk all day doing accounting or insurance adjusting or whatever, and go home to throw something in the microwave, and just don’t feel fulfilled. They wish they could have their cake and eat it too. They want to hunt there food, trudge through the jungle back to home, and slap their kill down on the table. But they want tea too, and of course, Matlock’s coming on. Instead, they’ve got their fantasies. I think the current plague of zombie content fits this same void for modern audiences. It’s like the modern male wishes society were wiped away so he could reign supreme again. Except not really. It’s just a fantasy. It’s what books are for. I got to be Tarzan for a little while, but now it’s back to work for me. They don’t have showers in the jungle or wives to share a morning coffee with, but I have both, and I better not get complacent about it either… cause… you know… the zombies and stuff.
Tarzan Triumphant opens with a British woman named Barbara Collis flying over Africa when her plane runs out of gas and she's forced to parachute to safety. She lands right in the midst of a group of degenerate inbred Christians with big noses, weak chins and poor grooming habits. No, seriously. I'm not making that up. With their weak intellects the Christians assume this woman who descended from Heaven's must be an emissary from God but find it difficult to communicate with her given that they speak a language wholly unique to their group.

Meanwhile, a Chicago mobster named "Gunner" Patrick decides lay low for a while and takes a boat ride where he meets a young scholar named Lafayette Smith who is on his way to Africa for a scientific exploration. Meanwhile, a Russian named Leon Stabutch has been sent by Stalin himself to take revenge on Tarzan for meddling in Russian affairs in previous books. Meanwhile, an Italian named Dominic Capietro is leading a group of Afrikaners called shiftas who are terrorizing the countryside. Meanwhile, another safari led by a Lord Passmore is travelling around Africa. That's a lot of meanwhiles and a lot of threads in the story. Naturally these various characters will eventually bump into each other with Stabutch and Capietro being natural allies while Lafayette discovers Barbara Collis moments from her being killed. My absolutely favorite team up is Tarzan and "Gunner" Patrick with his tommy gun. He may be a gangster but his "typewriter" comes in quite handy in saving Tarzan.

I'm torn on this book. On the one hand there isn't much of a story. It's just a bunch of people running around Africa, occasionally colliding into each other, getting caught, escaping, getting caught again etc. The story isn't really about Tarzan and he's more of an enigmatic protector who periodically shows up to rescue the characters who are the actual focus of the book. On the other hand this is some of the more relaxed writing I've read by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the characters he creates are fairly entertaining. When "Gunner" Patrick uses his tommy gun to defend himself from a Lion, Tarzan gives him a gentle admonishment saying, "Don't use it for hunting." Barbara Collis teases Lafayette Smith for his poor marksmanship prompting him to respond saying, "Unfortunately, perhaps it never occurred to my parents to train me in the gentle art of murder." I really enjoyed some of the clever conversations in the book and that's not always the case. It's not all fun and light though as there are two of the most gruesome deaths in the series. Readers are reminded that if threatened Tarzan will kill brutally and without mercy.

I would categorize this as one of the better Tarzan books. The plot is forgettable but the writing is more fun than in a lot of the other books. I also felt the sparing usage of Tarzan improved the book. I've been reading the Tarzan comics of Russ Manning who felt that to know Tarzan you only needed to the read the first 12 books but I would say that this 15th book is better than a lot of those first dozen. In some cases significantly better.