Tarnsman of Gor
by John Norman
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Author: John NormanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-01
ISBN: 0759283834
Number of pages: 188
Publisher: e-reads.com
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Book Review: Tarnsman Sets a Strange Tone for the Gor Saga
Summary: 4 Stars
The Gor series is renown and extremely popular as an alternate dominance/submissive fantasy landscape. As someone who has read the entire (25 book) series I would like to warn newcomers to the world of Gor that the first novel in the series, Tarnsman, sets a strange and contrary tone to the rest of the series. Norman doesn't really hit his stride until the fifth book in the series (Assasin of Gor). That would be a good starting place to begin the series (you'll have to find it used, though, and Gor goes fast in used bookstores). Or an even better place to begin would be with Slave Girl of Gor, Dancer of Gor or Kajira of Gor-- these books get at the essence of Norman's Gorean sexuality and are separate from the Tarl Cabot saga that provides the meat for the rest of the series. These books are self contained stories about three earth women who come to Gor, and you won't get bogged down with Gorean politics. There is also a three part series in the middle of the series (Fighting Slave of Gor starts the three-parter, I believe) about an Earth man named Jason who is brought to Gor by slavers and is assimilated much faster into the culture than Tarl Cabot is in Tarnsman. Norman is just beginning to get his ideas in focus in Tarnsman and the book is startlingly out of place when viewed with its companion novels. Plainly put, it is bad. So don't read Tarnsman and think "I've done Gor and it wasn't much." Read the later books. The ones I have pointed out all serve as better points of entry into a series that has as much to offer in the way of intricate and interesting world-building as it has in the way of cheap thrills.
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