Reading this with a friend of mine for our 2-person book club. Pretty good so far!
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Reading this with a friend of mine for our 2-person book club. Pretty good so far!
I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them.
Day 34
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so-so(1975) J.T. Edson's career was built on paperback westerns, but he was also apparently a fan of pulp adventure, and wrote four books about Tarzan's adopted son Bunduki having jungle adventures on an alien planet. The series was aimed at a men's market, where women characters are introduced with bust-waist-hip measurements and weapons are introduced with footnotes. I swear I am not making this up, and it makes me wish Litsy had a "WTF??" rating.
so-so(1974) Sequel to Farmer's "Hadon of Ancient Opar", though it's not so much a sequel as book two of a two-volume novel, which is not so much a novel as a long piece of Tarzan/Quatermain fanfic. It's okay for what it is. I expect it would appeal most to those who know the Burroughs and Haggard novels well enough to catch the references better than I do.
Hadon leaned on his sword and waited for death.
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so-so(1974) In the Tarzan series, Opar is a lost city of fabulous riches deep in the jungle. This book and its sequel imagine the adventures of a native of Opar back when it was a thriving city on the shore of an inland African sea. It's okay, though it shares some problems of the Tarzan series, along with a few of its own. This is a reread, since the sequel is next in my DAW challenge and I realized I didn't remember book 1 well enough to read book 2.
so-soThis was, unexpectedly, not an easy read. The language and the story are simple, but it is a book of its time. At first an exciting tale about the abandonment of Tarzan‘s parents on the shore of Africa, but the more one reads the more one must grapple with changed mores. As sexist and racist attitudes were expressed, as well as implicit ideas of nature versus nurture, it did challenge me and make me think in ways likely not intended by the author.
