kayuucee@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) (11/21/85)
There seems to be some confusion about some of P.J. Farmer's books. IMAGE OF THE BEAST contains two stories, IMAGE OF THE BEAST and BLOWN they are about a private eye and two of his adventures. Forrest Ackerman is an important character in the second story. A FEAST UNKNOWN is a story with the real-life counterparts of Doc Savage and Tarzan. This has violence and sex and violence and sex. It is definitely done tounge in cheek and one hell of a good read for pulp fans. This is followed by THE LORD OF THE TREES/THE MAD GOBLIN. The first story features Lord Grandrith (Tarzan) after his adventures in AFU and the second features Doc Caliban (Doc Savage). At the end of Doc's book the two are reunited. This is written more pulp-ish than camp-ish and to my opinion is not as good as the first. Farmer has also written two serious works about Tarzan and Doc Savage. Each is a biography of their lives. They are TARZAN LIVES (or TARZAN ALIVE, I can't remember at the momoent) and DOC SAVAGE: HIS APPOCALYPTIC LIFE. Both are very good. I read somewhere that Farmer is supposedly writing a biography of a certain crimefighter who worked in New York in the thirties and forties. I hope he finishes it soon. Star-Lord They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.