Marauders of Gor

I have read all the Gor books. But this was the first I ever did read so prehaps I view it through rose tinted glasses.It really is one of the best.Tarl travels north to a Viking type country and we finally see open battle with the ferocious Kurii.If you have not read Norman before you will be suprised. His descriptive style of writing is like no other author I have ever seen. Meticulous descriptions of weapons, objects, places, set pieces, give Gor a flavour unlike any other land.And now onto the controversy. It is all about the ultimate in co-dependant roles with males being the domintator and females the submissive partner.Now I can understand the viewpoint but we dont need to hear it over and over again. Just do what I do, and skip over these pages. Thankfully you will not have to do it that much in this book, unlike say the last few in the series where over half of the text is taken up with it.Despite that quibble get this book now.

I have all the Gor books from one to seventeen and I would like to get the rest of them but I can't find them. I have read my gor books five times so far.

I haven't looked at this book in fifteen years...but it is one of the few books I have read in my lifetime that were "magical" The story truly puts you into the shoes of some heroic, yet very afraid characters who are attacked by increadibly fearsome alien beasts. I'll have to go back and read it again to see if it still contains the "magic" for me. No. I'll leave it as a grand childhood memory that was never spoiled.

If you are a Tarl Cabot(Carl Tabot-see Tarnsman) fan (even if you are not a John Norman fan because he later sinks into strange social and gender commentary) this is your book. If you read the preceding novels, starting with Tarnsman, it is a better read. They are all good summer reading. Skip Kajira, though. After Assassin, the focus is on Kurii and men. They are similar. The series is fascinating and Marauders displays Norman's insight into the basic nature of man (but not Woman). Read it