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3.0 out of 5 stars Yet another look alike causes trouble for Tarzan of the Apes, June 16, 2004

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

"Tarzan and the Madman" was the second to last of the twenty-four Tarzan novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs during the glory days of the pulp fiction magazines. The twist this time around is that the jungle drums are telling all the tribes that Tarzan is suddenly stealing and enslaving their women. It seems the Lord of the Jungle has become everything he has ever fought against.

Among the women who have disappeared is Sandra Pickerall, heiress of the Thos. Pickerall's Ale fortune of Endinburgh. Sandra's father offers a kingly reward for the return of his daughter and the death of Tarzan. However, Sandra has not been kidnapped by the read Lord of the Jungle but another one of those look-alikes who pop up in these ERB novels periodically. Although he tells Sandra he is Tarzan, this madman is known as "God" by the Alemtejos. Tarzan is following the trail of these two, not so much to return Sandra to her father as to destroy the madman who has made his name reveiled throughout the jungle.

"Tarzan and the Madman" has all of the traditional ERB elements, from big game hunters who do not really understand the jungle to yet another lost African kingdom and one more tribe of great ape who have to learn to respect Tarzan's dominion. Burroughs has played this Tarzan look-alike card before (e.g., "Tarzan and the Lion Man"), so this book clearly goes in the pot-boiler category. The more Tarzan novels you have read the less you will be impressed with this one. Burroughs knows how to tell a ripping adventure yarn, but there is really nothing new here.

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