Welcome to Litsy!

I did not realize we got to Opar so early in the series!

Tarzan soothes a broken heart by… becoming a French spy? Lots of fun when ERB isn‘t being racist.

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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I'm really excited to have discovered this Tarzan retelling. I look forward to this book. #retelling #tarzan #case #love #savage #jungle #animals

(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.

(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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(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.