Tarzan and the City of Gold

"walls which were made to keep one out also invited one to climb them." Tarzan and the City of Gold narrates another one of ape-man's journeys, across a new area of Africa. But there were several surprises from ERB this time around. For me, this books stood out of the Tarzan series up to this point in......more

Note, March 19, 2015: I just edited this review, mostly to correct typos and make it read more smoothly, but the changes aren't substantive. I picked this book to read because I was under the misapprehension that it was the same one I started to read, as a kid, at somebody else's house, and then neve......more

Tarzan and the City of Gold is the 16th of the 24 Tarzan novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs (or ERB). Last year, I decided to re-read the Tarzan novels as an adult, and I have read and reviewed from #1 to this present novel within that time frame with the aspiration to reach the 24th sometime be......more

This was one of my favorite Tarzan novels, but it's not without its flaws. The ending is abrupt and there's some pretty major plot points that were never really cleared up, but it still was a good read from start to finish. It was straightforward and the plot stayed on point the entire time. But ther......more

ENGLISH: This 16th volume among Tarzan's novels repeats the same elements that appear once and again in the series: a lost valley in Africa with two lost cities in permanent struggle; a beautiful queen, madly in love with Tarzan; an impossible situation, which Tarzan manages to fix in the end, altho......more