Reviews for The Portrait Of A Lady

The average rating for The Portrait Of A Lady based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-18 00:00:00 Alyce Bunting Tarzan like many of us today needs a little cash his businesses in England are.. .Let's say the cash flow is not in balance with the expenses just a minor temporary difficulty no problem. The apeman knows where to get a ton of gold the lost city of Opar. He has been inside the hidden citadel before and the inhabitants don't seem to realize or care , how valuable the gold is not to mention the precious jewels, also.They are too busy with human sacrifices; the Gods must be satisfied, only blood does that, strange isn't it? So off the jungle man goes with a group of his African followers on a long march to the secret location leaving Jane again alone. Which Lord Greystoke just a few years ago, escaped with his life, doesn't matter now...In the sad haunting ruins, though always beautiful minaret city is salvation (financially speaking) however that's another earlier book...The Return of Tarzan. All is well until an unexpected earthquake and a falling rock smashes the hard head of Tarzan while inside the concealed, dark treasure chamber. Ye of little faith the man still lives!Presto and the mighty giant apeman loses his memory and later returns to the savage he was previously in childhood.Living like an animal with other gorillas and having fun his friends think Tarzan is dead, go back to Jane yet she has been captured by Arab raiders led by the notorious Achmet Zek. In ivory and slave trading he specializes a man who greatly enjoys his work and shows it by an example...the unpleasant scoundrel...dastardly burning down the unperturbed Lady Greystoke's home , not a gentleman.With this villain the equally fiendish Belgian Lt.Albert Werpe wanted for the unprovoked killing of his superior officer in what was then the Belgian Congo, these people you don't want to mess with or meet. Werper working with Zek had followed the jungle man and his new buddies to steal the gold what else, still some rather unforeseen circumstances cause a change of plans.He too is stuck inside the collapsed building thinks Tarzan is no longer among us, then escapes into the place where a human is to be killed by the city dwellers to appease their thirsty Gods.This is a dead city? Presided by the high priestess, La who has a passion for Tarzan and wants to make him her mate.The clueless Lord saves then this murderous devil , big error, a huge lion just happens to come by and scare the butchers away. All the fearless Tarzan has to do is slaughter the big cat...More adventures succeed this little trifle will the Lord rescue his wife? Get the gold (don't forget the jewels) and live happily ever after ? Of course not that sounds boring! P.S. Who is Jane? Says Tarzan.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-31 00:00:00 Todd Menges La. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. La-La-La. It's too damn hot to write a proper review of this fifth book in the Tarzan series. The first part certainly was a great read for me - the part in which La, the Queen and High-Priestess of the ancient city of Opar, has her remarkable appearance. A strong-weak-ambivalent character; the deepest in the Tarzan-Universe so far. I hope to see her again in some future novel. The second part was so-so la-la; the usual themes of life and death and long marches through the savage jungle. Themes of which, to be honest, I'm a little fed up by now. The rating's only for the La-Part. My edition also has some nice illustrations in it, like this one showing Tarzan and a loin lion in some gravity-defying fight with La (O, La, La) in the background. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.