Learning to Read Tarzan
Sep. 16th, 2014 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI just finished the second book in the Tarzan series. Now that I treat it as what it is--a serialization, with pretty much each chapter ending in a cliffhanger--I'm enjoying it more. When you need that many cliffhangers, it's just not going to be realistic or totally happy. But things mostly work out for him (this book even ends better than the first one).
So now I can just sit back and enjoy meeting Jane's best friend, hanging with an African tribe, and discovering a fascinating lost culture, even though Tarzan also wants gold for no reason, his hearing suddenly isn't amazing anymore when he needs to hear something, and the fiance dies right when we finally don't want him to die anymore.
Meanwhile, until I get book #3, I'm enjoying another new-to-me Louis L'amour book. Often, reading is the most fun thing I do all day (away from home), so it's good to have books I know I'll enjoy, even if they aren't the most amazing books of all time.
So now I can just sit back and enjoy meeting Jane's best friend, hanging with an African tribe, and discovering a fascinating lost culture, even though Tarzan also wants gold for no reason, his hearing suddenly isn't amazing anymore when he needs to hear something, and the fiance dies right when we finally don't want him to die anymore.
Meanwhile, until I get book #3, I'm enjoying another new-to-me Louis L'amour book. Often, reading is the most fun thing I do all day (away from home), so it's good to have books I know I'll enjoy, even if they aren't the most amazing books of all time.