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In the fourth Tarzan story Paulvitch still lived and sought vengeance against Tarzan. As part of his plot, he lured Tarzan's young son away from London. But the boy escaped, with the aid of the great ape Akut. Together they fled to the savage African jungles where Tarzan had been reared. There the civilized boy had to learn to meet the great beasts. He also had to face and conquer the same dangers his father had conquered. But he grew in time to be Korak the Killer, a warrior almost as mighty as Tarzan. Korak found a friend in Meriem, whom he rescued from a raiding Arab band. Then he discovered that the dangers of the jungle were nothing compared to the dangers devised by men.

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I loved this book! It was wonderful. As a girl, I had always loved the brute masculinity that Tarzan, and later Jack, show so well, but at the same time I wished for a female with the same powers of cunning, speed, and courage. The addition of Meriem to the Tarzan tales was perfect. Now all the little girls introduced to the books have a person to role play and imagine being. The love story was also a great addition, for once Jack took to the jungle he needed his "Jane" and who better than a french Princess turned Arab waif turned jungle queen. This book is spectactular, and any Tarzan lover must read it!

Posted By Kate Spierling at Tue 24 May 2005, 10:07 PM in The Son of Tarzan || 0 Replies

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This is the best of all the Tarzan books, and I've read them all, many in the original hardbacks. By this third book of the trilogy (Tarzan, Return of Tarzan, and Son of Tarzan), Burroughs seemed to have perfected the telling of the "civilized man becomes jungle beast" story, and had not yet began writing the fanciful but much less believable stories about strange lost treasures and civilizations. This book appealed to me more than the first two when I was a boy because I could imagine myself as Jack leaving civilization and learning to live in the jungle. I also liked the love story, and it has the best surprise conclusion of all the Tarzan books. I strongly recommend it.

PHM
Atlanta

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