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Oh, don’t take that as me getting genuinely upset. I mean, Burroughs was born in 1875 and Tarzan of the Apes, the first book, was published in 1912 (though the two dozen sequels continued being published into the 1940s), so of course it gets racist from time to time. I always just saw that as a thing I was going to run into reading really old books, but I completely get why it’s a deal breaker for a ton of other people. I just made that little outburst as a joke about the second person format. On an amusing tangent, while Burroughs could be very backwards in his books, he occasionally ended up rather forward-thinking as well. In the novel Pellucidar (the second book in said series, oddly enough), the main character and his love interest are backed up against a sheer cliff face, and he thinks he’s going to have to coach the delicate woman into climbing down...and then turns around to find her already having climbed halfway to the bottom. The main character, and thus Burroughs, then takes a moment to speculate that perhaps the reason women of the 1915 surface world aren’t like that is not an inherent limitation of being female, but is instead because of cultural conditioning. It’s not like the whole book is like that or anything, but that was an idea weirdly ahead of its time. Too late! I finished it last night. You’ll get a review at some point, but for the moment, just know that it made me laugh quite a few times.