I don’t know why so many online retailers put Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels under their respective children sections. Not only is the subject not appropriate for children (the series is significantly more gorey than you might expect), but the register that Burroughs writes in is too advanced for anyone under high school age:>To the smoking-room he followed them, but they merely halted at the doorway long enough, apparently, to assure themselves that one whose whereabouts they wished to establish was within.An eight-year-old would no more understand that sentence than he would Proust, but a high schooler would.
>>25643616I liked the one about the lost crusaders.Overall however it's simplistic juvenile fantasy slop aping the works of greater men. Kipling shits in Burroughs' face.
yes it is, manchild.
>>25643734NTA but I don't think kids even back then could read the level of some of the prose of ERB.
>>25643616Teenagers are children.
>>25643616you're underestimating what children can deal with and understand.
One of my favorite series along with Jane Austen's books. Its in the martial wisom category along with Malory's Morte d'Arthur, Cyropaedia, or the Proverbs or Solomon, which are also books written mainly for teenage boys but the wisdom is timeless, and if you won't read these books and apply them to your life, you will live to regret it. If you are too stupid to be able to read pulp fiction that's on you.
>>25643616Reddit doesn't believe huck Finn was written for children
>>25643616children could read that stuff no problem before the technological mindrape
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>>25644310maybe some could, but it’s obvious that erb didn’t have kids in mind as a target audiencekids could (and probably did) read the sherlock holmes stories too, but they weren’t /for/ them
I started reading Robert Louis Stevenson in 2nd grade. Burroughs is about the same difficulty I'd say. Kids don't read anymore because they're addicted to Soma.
