King Kong goes to Africa, and starts wreaking havoc until he catches the attention of Tarzan.All the parts featuring Tarzan were very well done. The parts featuring Carl Denham and the rest were actually pretty dull. Unfortunately, the latter takes up the majority of the book.

Note: CONTAINS SPOILERS: After bringing Doc Savage and King Kong together, Will Murray works similar magic between Tarzan and Kong. How did Kong get safely transported from Skull Island to the Port of New York? This book tackles that problem, getting the Lord of the Jungle involved in the process. The book opens with the capture of Kong on Skull Island, straight out of the movie. Breathlessly exciting is this opening, but things slow down quite a bit while Kong is kept for a long stretch tranqui...

Exceptional storytelling The author has taken a moment in the story of King Kong and expanded it into a slam bang novel. While many such cross pollination so of literary characters tend to suffer from neither character coming across quite right, not so here. This is an excellent example of high literature and adventure. A great deal of fun and may I add, highly recommended.

KING KONG VS. TARZAN is a solid work consciously written in the style of pulp fiction from the 1930's. It's a fun conceit to combine Kong and Tarzan in the same story. Murray clearly knows the pulp genre well and the tone and dialogue of the characters in this pastiche are spot on. Literature in this category succeeds based on plot movement and generally, the pacing is good though it does take over half the book to get Kong and Tarzan together. In fact, much of the initial portion of the book is...

The Lord of the Jungle has bested some mighty tough critters over the course of his long career. The King of Skull Island, meanwhile, has kicked a whole lot of dinosaur butt, in addition to whupping (at least in the American film version) a big booger called Godzilla. So when these titans finally clash, you know there will be fireworks.And that’s exactly what we get in Will Murray’s new epic, King Kong vs.Tarzan. And how it all comes about is told so convincingly that this unlikely meeting comes...

This book was a lot of fun! I was a big fan of the original King Kong movie and also the Tarzan movies (and books). Will Murray now brings these two jungle monarchs face to face. And what I really liked about the story was how the author brings them together. The filmmaker Carl Denham has captured the gigantic ape Kong and is carrying him in chains in the cargo freighter to New York. We know all that from the movie. But what we didn't know is that, off the coast of Africa, Kong escapes and make

While I found it not as good as his previous novel staring Kong and Doc Savage nor his previous Tarzan novel, I still enjoyed it quite a lot.

Bit disappointed with this one. I've only ever read one Tarzan book and found it unreadable. Tarzan in this is just as annoying. I have to say I found his "conversations" with animals irritating. Perhaps my biggest quibble with this though is the character of Carl Denham. The author has based the character more on the 2005 remake (the Jack black version) rather than the original character from the 1933 movie. Personally I can't watch the new version, it's just awful. Denham's gone from a nice gu...

For having a title that gives equal billing to its two jungle lords, it takes a remarkably long time for Tarzan to even be alluded to (page 122), never mind show up (page 262). Prior to this the attention is largely on the logistics of actually getting Kong into the boat and keeping him alive yet docile on the way to his inevitable appointment on Doc Savage's doorstep - not very cinematic, but interesting if you enjoy that sort of thing.Once Lord Greystoke shows up the pace quickens considerably...

I wanted to really like this book......but that wasn't what happened. I'm hugely disappointed with it.Let me start out by saying that I came to the book from the Tarzan side of the title. Tarzan and Kong....sounds like a great idea. The sad thing is that Tarzan doesn't even arrive in the story until page 262....and it's not for maybe another 50 pages that the Lord of the Apes even gets to interact with the characters that brought Kong to Africa.What does happen is ENDLESS (and multiple) scenes t...

I always love to dive into a Will Murray novel. He seems to love all the pulp characters that I also love, and he is somehow able to channel the authors’ voices as he writes new adventures.This story takes place between the capture of King Kong on Skull Island and his eventual arrival in New York City. The logistics of that transport are always glossed over in all the movies, but it can be a real struggle to keep such a behemoth alive and unhurt throughout that voyage. What we now know though, t...

This book needs a editor, you have chapter after chapter of the same thing over and over again. Only about 100 pages of story when moving forward.

High Adventure!The 8th Wonder of the World meets Lord Greystoke, and a battle royale it is. Join the crew of the Wanderer as they try to transport the captured King Kong to New York City, only to run headlong into Tarzan of the Apes. Adventure on an epic scale, well worth your reading time!

This is a tough review to write. I'm so conflicted. I enjoyed this book, a lot. But it drove me crazy in many ways. (This book happens in between the capture of Kong on Skull Island, and his fateful arrival in New York.)As others have said in their reviews, Tarzan isn’t even mentioned until over 100 pages in. And he does not show up in the story until page 262.The books goes into GREAT DETAIL about just how Kong was transported from the island, onto the ship. GREAT DETAIL. Page after page it se

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Perhaps the title should read: The Story of King Kong—also starring TarzanThe story of the Beast-God Kong begins on a remote Indian Ocean island—Skull Island. There Kong is a giant ape the last of his kind and ruler of all he can see. The humans on Skull Island have built a great wall to keep Kong away from their village. There is a gate in the wall used to make offerings of a young woman to the beast-god.When the crew of the good ship Wanderer follow the mad plans of Carl Denham to this unknown...

This was much better written than I expected. As a huge Burroughs and Tarzan fan, I was a bit disappointed that the Lord Of the Jungle didn't factor more into the story but I enjoyed the 30's pulp style of writing and felt it moved as a great pace.

“An Epic Adventure For Modern Times.”We are familiar with the capture of King Kong on Skull Island, and his eventual death in New York, but in this tale, the author details Kong’s journey from Skull Island, and how he was kept sedated for much of the trip, until problems arose, and the giant monarch of Skull Island escapes onto the African continent. Traveling from Skull Island, Captain Englehorn warns Carl Denham that the passage through the Suez Canal might not be a good idea, and he turns his...