Review: Finally!  A collection with more than the first eight books!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2013
I got a Kindle a year and a half ago and one of the authors I've really wanted to fill it with was Edgar Rice Burroughs. Unfortunately, only some of his books are available. Only 7 of the 11 John Carter books are available, and for the longest time I could only find the first 8 Tarzan books. Finally last week I decided to check on Tarzan again and found this. It claims to be the complete adventures of Tarzan, but it doesn't include "Tarzan and the Madman". Curious, I looked up that one and discovered "Tarzan and the Madman", while written by Burroughs, wasn't actually published while he was alive. What difference that makes in including it in this collection, I have no idea. Still, it's got 25 of the Tarzan books and is only missing one, so I jumped at it. This even has "The Tarzan Twins", which I've never found anywhere.The first one, "Tarzan of the Apes" is my favorite, followed by "Jungle Tales of Tarzan", which to me is just part of the first book. I love how that first book ends. He doesn't give you the Hollywood Happy Ending that so many stories today force upon you.I'm in the midst of the second book, "The Return of Tarzan", and plan to just read them all straight through. I can't help it. I love Burroughs' Tarzan and can't figure out why I've yet to see a movie do the Tarzan of the books. They always change it. I've only seen the atrocity that was Disney's Tarzan once. I plan to never see it again.