Swordsmen of Gor Gorean Saga Book 29 eBook John Norman
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Fresh from his exploits in the Steel Worlds, home of the Kurii, a savage alien race intent on conquering Gor, Tarl Cabot has been returned to an isolated beach, at coordinates apparently specified by the Priest-Kings, the masters of Gor and the enemy of the Kurii. His only companions are his beautiful new slave Cecily and Ramar, a ferocious sleen bred in the Steel Worlds to hunt and kill. But why has he been returned to such a remote spot? Did the Priest-Kings wish their former agent to serve them once more? Did the Kurii intend to use Cabot to further their own ends? The truth, as Tarl will learn, is darker and deeper than either of these possibilities.
Rediscover this brilliantly imagined world where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire.
Swordsmen of Gor is the 29th book in the Gorean Saga, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Rediscover this brilliantly imagined world where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire.
Swordsmen of Gor is the 29th book in the Gorean Saga, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Swordsmen of Gor Gorean Saga Book 29 eBook John Norman
Only bought because I have and have read all the prior books in the series. Bought Tarnsman of Gor when I was a Freshmen in High School and loved it. Norman's early books reminded me very much of the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but he has become completely obsessed with the subject of female bondage. I do not read his books any more - I skim through them and pick out the story between his REPEATED ministrations that nature designed women to be slaves and his ramblings that might be 2 paragraphs to 10 pages about how nice a woman looks in a collar, a slaver tunic, on her knees, etc. He has beaten this subject into the ground and this book could easily be compresses from 595 pages to around 120 pages of real storyline. He needs to re-hire the editor he had 40 years ago.Product details
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Swordsmen of Gor Gorean Saga Book 29 eBook John Norman Reviews
Anyone expecting Norman to start wrapping up some of those loose ends that have been waving in the breeze for, oh, ten or twenty books or so, can think again. This episode in the continuing adventures of Tarl adds more and resolves none.
However - it has one major plus factor - it resumes the exploration of the different peoples of Gor, adding a major new dimension - The Pani of Nara - read that as Japanese of the Samurai era. Unfortunately, for a book entitled "Swordsmen of Gor" there is very little actual swordplay.
Their sudden appearance in Known Gor is not explained, although it is alluded to - draw your own conclusions until yet another subsequent book might explain more.
For those with an interest in the different Gorean social positions available to women, there is the introduction of a new womens' role - somewhere between a Free Woman and a slave - the Contract Woman - read Geisha/Concubine - perhaps best explained as an equivalent to a pleasure "slave", but one who is free. In this case the woman is not property and is not merchandise to be sold - it is her contract that is property and merchandise which can be sold - so she holds the status of a Free Woman, but has some of the "advantages" of a slave, in the realm of sexual liberation.
As a read it holds the usual Norman "Boys' Own" rollicking tale when it addresses the narrative of Tarl's adventures. Unfortunately, it also suffers from the usual Norman tedious and highly repetitive clap-trap droning on and on about his views on the institution of slavery and the social order of Earth. The phrase "cut to the chase" seems to have evaded Norman. His pretentious and pompous explorations of the nether reaches of the Thesaurus also get annoying at times.
Definitely a read for the fan of the genre.
If the first six Gor novels were great, the following three good and the next 16 slowly declining in quality from so-so to terrible, this book would fall into the so-so group. Some of the battle scenes harken back to the glory days of Gor, full of exciting action. The problem is that there aren't many of them. It takes 322 pages to get to the only real battle. Some of those pages have interesting passages as Tarl Cabot creates a revolutionary tarn army but most of them and the remainder of this novel are yet another repeat of Norman's obsession with the psychology of slave girls. He repeats the same scene over and over of a girl being mentally and physically abused and loving her male master for doing it because all women long to be slaves. Even if you are a man who enjoys this sort of fantasy, you'll hate this book because all the scenes are so similar they quickly become mind numbingly repetitive.
I've been a reader of the author's Gorean saga since it began and have enjoyed the overall story lines despite his excessive descriptions of everyday life on Gore. I might even say I've gotten use to it. But the repetitious detail of the female's lives really gets old. Describing a female's plight on Gor is part of the narrative and certainly has a place in every book but you could easily remove 25% of those descriptions and accomplish the same effect. Some of Norman's Gor books have substantial story lines. Others, like this one, have gratuitous pages on what it's like to be a female slave on Gor. If you're reading this book it's unlikely it's your first Norman Gor book and you've read it all before. But, this book does provide a critical story link from previous books and so, should not be missed.
I was hoping that Norman would continue the faster pace of story-telling that he used in Kur of Gor. But, alas, it didn't hold up.
The final third of this installment is filled with bloating, bloating and more bloating. How many times are we to read about women belonging in collars? Didn't we all get that point back in Book #10?
Once again, Norman causes great dismay when he begins a paragraph with the words "Perhaps a word or two about" or "Maybe I should explain this point" or some such thing like that. It means that you are about to be subjected to page after page after page of irrelevant commentary that is nothing more that rehashes of things that have been written into every Gor novel since #10 and slows down the story to a snail's pace.
This moves the plot in the war between Priest-Kings and Kurii along - using humans as pawns in the conflict. Tarl Cabot and his slave de jour from the Steel Worlds are released to the north forests of Gore. It is apparent that treachery is involved and while allegedly on a mission for the Priest-Kings their emissary has been clearly been intercepted and killed. Cabot is aware of this but is ambivalent about serving the Priest- Kings. In a device similar to a lot of the books Cabot finds himself with a new earth originated race - Japanese who've been transplanted to Gore at some time in the past and are part of the struggle between the Kurii and Priest-Kings. Its a pretty good read. The usual rant associated with female submission and slavery while fully present does not overwhelm the plot some times it is touching and who doesn't like the occasional naked lady.
Only bought because I have and have read all the prior books in the series. Bought Tarnsman of Gor when I was a Freshmen in High School and loved it. Norman's early books reminded me very much of the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but he has become completely obsessed with the subject of female bondage. I do not read his books any more - I skim through them and pick out the story between his REPEATED ministrations that nature designed women to be slaves and his ramblings that might be 2 paragraphs to 10 pages about how nice a woman looks in a collar, a slaver tunic, on her knees, etc. He has beaten this subject into the ground and this book could easily be compresses from 595 pages to around 120 pages of real storyline. He needs to re-hire the editor he had 40 years ago.
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