Recently was re-reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes. I used the past tense because I quit reading the book halfway though. Loved the book and the series when I was a kid but I was afraid to read the book would be racist to today's audience and it was. Not to the degree I feared but definitely racist and misogynist too.
It is a great story and a great character. I simply had an itch I needed to scratch but now that itch has been scratched and probably won't be picking that book up again.
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