A second or third-grader would love this - there's non-stop action, and not much thought behind the world Burroughs created here, except as was driven by the thought "What would a second or third grader find exciting!?"

Make no mistake, I love me some prehistoric life, and I don't mind the cold-blooded lizardy version of dinosaurs that ruled thought at the time Burroughs wrote, but there's like 25 big dinos per acre! All carnivores!

The book isn't satisfying on its own, either - it's so clearly setting up a series, that I guess he didn't mind much that the central conflicts in this one were never really resolved.

And, by the way, the views of the evolution of man leave it pretty clear that Burroughs felt white people are more evolved than other races. So there's that. Oh, well.

Thanks for Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, Edgar. You can keep Caspak.