margaret_hovestadt's review against another edition
3.0
I read this many years ago, and only remembered bits of it. It was not as good as I remembered it. Some peices are definitely problematic, but the descriptions and imagery are vivid.
kathyscottage's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
5.0
abdiel47's review against another edition
4.0
Ever since Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle Tarzan has been playing a supporting role in his own series in a sequence of other people's one-off adventures. Tarzan and the City of Gold is a return to form and the best Tarzan novel since Tarzan and the Golden Lion. It's especially refreshing since the previous Tarzan novel, Tarzan Triumphant, was particularly bad.
The land of Cathne is vintage Burroughs, a place where lions live among men and the city is covered in gold. And where the people display the tanned hides of their slain enemies on the walls of their palaces. As always the ethics seem foreign to me as a modern reader which the book all the more exotic.
There's a long "false start" to the novel and the real plot doesn't reveal itself until about half way through.
The land of Cathne is vintage Burroughs, a place where lions live among men and the city is covered in gold. And where the people display the tanned hides of their slain enemies on the walls of their palaces. As always the ethics seem foreign to me as a modern reader which the book all the more exotic.
There's a long "false start" to the novel and the real plot doesn't reveal itself until about half way through.
bookbybook's review against another edition
4.0
I liked this one more than the very first Tarzan book (I am not reading the series in order), and definitely wish this one had made it to the screen. However, I don't think Disney would be able to spin this one into a happy little tale, as it is much to representative of the times.
lnatal's review against another edition
4.0
In the fabled land of Onthar lie the twin cities of Cathne and Athne - one a city of gold, the other a city of ivory. For generations the Cathneans and Athneans have warred with one another, using armies of trained lions and elephants.
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