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| AUTHOR: | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Ballantine Books |
| ISBN: | 0345351630 |
| TYPE: | Fantasy - General, Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, Science Fiction - General, Fiction / Science Fiction / General |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Tarzan's third adventure with La, High Priestess of Opar One of the surprises as you read through the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs is that at one point the author killed off Jane; it prove not to be the case, but John Clayton's wife certainly disappeared from the latter novels. The story is that ERB did not think that Jane was really a worthy consort to the Lord of the Jungles and that he thought his creation would be better off with La, the High Priestess of the Flaming God in Opar, the lost colony of sunken Atlantis. La was introduced in "The Return of Tarzan," the first sequel to "Tarzan of the Apes," and reappeared in the fifth novel "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar." She makes her third appearance in this fourteenth Tarzan novel, "Tarzan the Invincible."
The story is that La had been imprisoned by her own people and Tarzan resuces her. But it does not make any sense for her to stay in Opar so he brings her to his neck of the woods. He then runs into the jungle on another errand, which gives a group of Arab slave traders the opportunity to capture her. Meanwhile, Tarzan's land is invaded by a group of international communists (are there any other kind?). The idea of bringing La out of Opar was decent enough, since there is only so many times (three apparently) that Tarzan can go there to rescue somebody and have the high priestess have those fits of heaving bosoms she always has when he is near. But by this point more than halfway through the two-dozen Tarzan novels Burroughs is working pretty much from formula. Once again Tarzan has to rescue someone while dastardly outsiders, like this lunatic Peter Zevri who wants to become the czar of Africa, make some inane power play. "Tarzan the Invincible" is a standard ERB pot-boiler, which makes it a decent adventure yarn. The problem is that the more of these you read, the less you will be impressed with any given yarn.