New Easton Press DLE Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book DLE

EP has added a new DLE

https://www.eastonpress.com/prod/9E4/3391/Rudyard-Kipling-s-br-THE-JUNGE-BOOK

>1 saintmelville: having just finished most of Kipling I feel he is one of the most over-rated authors, with the exception of Captains Courageous and Man Who Would Be King. I suffered reading his works. Suffered, suffered, suffered and glad to dump them on eBay. I would take this only if it were free so I could sell it.

It will be some time before I consider purchasing this DLE, too many other obligations.

>2 HugoDumas:
But did you like them?

This is on my wish list. I think my wish list is at about $10,000 right now with all the DLE's I'm going to buy. My significant other is going to kill me.

I never read The Jungle Book and this looks spectacular and at around $228 decently priced, though not cheap. Initially I thought this was an artist edition with original illustrations, which may have been great too.

>6 astropi: Gorgeous edition, loved the stories and movies based on it, when I was a kid.

>7 fancythings: the Disney cartoon is much more enjoyable.

8: Why do you say that? Although, I do love the Disney cartoon (not the live-animated remake, which was okay but underwhelming and meh)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dhSdnDb3tk

>2 HugoDumas: “I suffered reading his works. Suffered, suffered, suffered ...” >9 astropi:
Kipling is reported to have said that Edgar Rice Burroughs must have been trying to write the worst novel possible with his “Tarzan and the Apes.” A bit of rivalry perhaps in the boy-raised-by-animals genre. Burroughs wrote 24 more Tarzan novels but there are only a few Mowgli short stories. Personally, I prefer Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” and “White Fang” with their focus on the animals.

>9 astropi: not enjoyable reads, period. >10 jroger1: read the B&N collection last year and found Tarzan a pleasant read, though tiring after the first few. There are better animal stories such as Call of the Wild, White Fang, Black Beauty, My Friend Flicker, Old Yeller.

>11 HugoDumas:
My interest in animal stories goes back 70 years when I was learning to read by sitting on my father’s lap, following along as he read a child’s version of the Uncle Remus stories out loud. They are not deemed politically correct in some circles today because they stemmed from African and African American folklore but were written by a white man, Joel Chandler Harris, in a very heavy slave dialect. Nevertheless, EP had the courage to re-publish an early edition in 2006. It is very slow reading (think Huckleberry Finn multiplied by 5), but the stories are remarkable.

I found Tarzan to be in many ways ahead of its times. Oh, it definitely still smells of a superiority complex, but overall by today's standards it is not as egregious as other stories. That said, I think the first book was more than enough for me. I know it's absolutely a classic, and I would say it's worth reading once, but its not my cup of tea. That said, the novels have certainly inspired good things, for example
https://blog.conservation.org/2012/08/100-years-of-tarzan-and-putting-rainforest...
Since I haven't read Jungle Books I would like to find out what all the fuss is about.

I really enjoyed the Jungle Book, actually. It's much darker and serious in tone than the Disney movie (of course), but not many may be aware that there are actually additional short stories in the book that are not about Mowgli, such as Rikki Tikki Tavi.

>12 jroger1: Last year, I got around to reading my Franklin Uncle Remus which had been on my bookshelf 40 years. It was like reading a foreign language. I could not finish it!

>15 HugoDumas:
I haven’t finished mine either. Like strong medicine, it needs to be taken in small doses

Jungle Book DLE is now on the limited quantities list @ 99 units remaining.

https://www.eastonpress.com/prod/9E4/3391/Rudyard-Kipling-s-br-THE-JUNGLE-BOOK

17: please see
https://www.librarything.com/topic/255754#6571323
:)