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Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

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No one writes a better battle scene than R.A. Salvatore, which is where this adaptation of a screenplay to a short-lived TV series shines. Tarzan moves and fights with all comers with almost preternatural grace. As Salvatore fans have come to love with the Drizzt novels, Tarzan continually engages in a savage ballet at least every thirty pages. Unfortunately, that's about all the free reign Salvatore has in this book. He seemed limited by the fact Tarzan must win with all his helpless, and continually in-the-way, friends completely intact, and this steals a large amount of the suspense. In Salvatore's own worlds, he is free to take the characters where they take him. Here Tarzan and his friends need to get from preordained point A to B knowing that only a finite number of written pages are keeping them from the inevitable ending. If you've read the Drizzt novels, the Corona tales, the Cleric Quintet and Salvatore's various but scattered trilogies, this book is more of the swashbuckling style but without the characterization. If this is your first Salvatore book though, it may hold your attention, but you're missing out.

I had just seen the terrific movie Tarzan and the Lost City starring Caspar Van Dien and was dying to read a Tarzan novel. I picked up one by Burroughs at random but it had a slow beginning. So, in the library where I was, I found THIS book. It was just what I needed. well written, fast reading, real Tarzan. Burroughs is great, but sometimes you are not in the mood for his writing style.