" Burroughs obviously did little research before he wrote this story. I think that's what bothers me the most. The rampant racism and sexism is bad, but it can (sort of, not really) be excused because of when this book was written. But he really could have looked in to animal behaviour. And language acquisition. Tarzan teaching himself to read when he has no concept of reading and no knowledge of English is, in my opinion, impossible. He might have been able to teach himself concrete nouns, since he had a picture dictionary, but abstract nouns, verbs, prepositions, articles--no. Sorry. That seriously bugged me. I guess that's my linguistic training coming out. I probably would have been more annoyed with weird animal things (apes do not kidnap human women. And what are apes, anyway?) had I studied biology, although they annoyed me plenty. The only part I liked was the end, which had two advantages: Jane made a good decision (she and Tarzan wouldn't have been happy) and it meant the book was over. "
— Melanie, 2/5/2014