Okay then ...

[kiya]

... I'm working through one of the boxes of books that Dad gave me this winterseason, and the handful I just pulled out contained ....

... Tarnsman of Gor.

Well, I suppose I should read at least one of them.

(Update: teinedreugan, upon coming home, informs me that that's something he got and put in the box so it'd get catalogued. Not quite so weirded out now. ;) )



(While I'm writing, so as not to keep posting the random stuff on my mind in zillions of tiny posts:

From griffen: How To Write A Fugue. A YouTube video. At the very least I'm pretty sure jenett and hobbitblue need to see this. Music, of course. Hysterical.)

Comments

[elf]

I read several of the Gor novels as a teen.

The first six are... vaguely tolerable. There's some interesting sci-fi buried in with the BDSM culture stuff, and Great Noble Adventures and all that. And some intriguing dynamics about power exchange and whatnot.

And book 7, if I'm remembering right, is written from the female point of view, and the thin suspension of disbelief you've been skating on collapses.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

IIRC Tarnsman of Gor is the very first and therefore not bad in a pulpy outlandish adventure SF sort of way. The BDSM and subdugation of women stuff is decently kept in the background and scarcely any worse than a lot of the stuff that was around then.

I read the first few Gor books when I was much much younger, and I have to admit, I did so want a tarn. *g*

[elynne.livejournal.com]

That "How to Write a Fute" video is wonderful. :D And the end product is far more complex and entertaining than the original subject... ;)

[jenett]

I did watch it last night, and was greatly amused.

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I should read at least one of them.

*chuckles* That was exactly the reason he gave me for buying it. Well one of the reasons anyway. "It's the first one, it's supposed to be at least better than the others." "It's a collector's item." "It's just funny."

I think I believed the last one.