Reviews for The Bostonians Volume Ii (Large Print Edition)

The average rating for The Bostonians Volume Ii (Large Print Edition) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-12-17 00:00:00 Daniel Haughey This was one of the more confusing Tarzan books to me. You end up with Tarzan caught between two ancient civilizations, which seems to happen a lot to him. There sure were a lot of lost civilizations in Africa around 100 years ago. Anyway, we have a prehistoric race complete with tails. Also, we have dinosaurs! Triceratops show up, but these are meat eaters. At first, I thought it was just bad science, but it was something Burroughs called attention to a few times. He was either saying the scientists got it wrong, or the dinosaurs had become meat eaters as time passed. I almost got the sense he scoffed at the idea of a vegetarian dinosaur, but that's conjecture. Next we have Jane, still captured by the German Soldier as she was in the last book. We also have a surprise character who is tracking Tarzan down that I won't spoil here, but it wasn't that hard to guess. Overall, as I mentioned earlier, it was slightly confusing because the names were all complicated, most of them with dashes. Obi-jobi, hoota-toota, ooo-la-la, and such. (OK I made those up but you get the idea.) Of course, some of Tolkein's names confused me as well, so it could just be me. The storyline itself got a little convoluted too, but that's par for the course with Tarzan. Overall, it's another entry in the Tarzan series. Not better than the rest, but not really the worst either. You probably already know if you'll like this one or not.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-10 00:00:00 Brian Orach "Things were as they had always been and would always be as they were." Tarzan the Terrible, the 8th in the series is the second part of the Tarzan the Untamed. However, it was a little different world which the story unfolds that is completely different from any that we had seen before. Java Men and Dinosaurs... not the things around which one can wrap their heads quickly. The story was fun and thrilling, and I think it was almost as good as the last one. "Tenacious indeed of life is Hope even though it be reduced to cold and lifeless char - a veritable phoenix." "You may teach a lion tricks, but he is still a lion."