[ SECRET POST #4835 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4835 ⌋

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Comments

[dantesspirit]

Yeah. I have through 24, never could find an original copy of 25 and eventually gave up.

Apparently the latest was released last year. He's 88 now.

https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/john-norman/

https://www.amazon.com/Gorean-Saga-34-Book-Series/dp/B01LX7LBEI

[tabaqui]

Omg. I am....kinda squicked now.

[dantesspirit]

Yeah, I read the descriptions for the newer books and I just.. nope. NopeNopeNope.

My husband has never read them. He took one look at the *covers* (which they apparently rereleased with newer, more fantasy style ones) and said they made him cringe.

[tabaqui]

If I'm not mistaken, a lot of the original covers were done by Boris Vallejo, who is a really good artist. I haven't seen any of these books since about 1987.

[dantesspirit]

Yup. Which is what attracted me to them in the first place.}:)

[tabaqui]

I remember in High School he was really popular (1984-85), and my then BF/SO was really into him. He was an artist, too, and I think we both did reproductions of Boris art in art class. I did his cover of the book 'The Dragon and the George' and I...can't think what Cat did. A S&S image, I'm sure.

I did kind of side-eye Boris' habit of painting himself into things, heh.

[dantesspirit]

Yeah, he did have a bad habit of doing that. }:/

Royo was another of my favs.

[tabaqui]

Oh, Royo is good, yes. I always loved Michael Whelan.

[dantesspirit]

Oh my gods yes! Some of my favorite books have Whelan covers

[tabaqui]

I had to go look. From the first review of book 35: "An astoundingly easy read, for a Gorean novel...."

Omg. Dude. They're not fucking War & Peace or some philosophical treatise. They're porn with a thinly-applied plot. Yeesh.

[dantesspirit]

It's obvious *he* wrote the descriptions. I mean, really-

"Packed with action, and, as usual, presented with a spicy dressing of cultural relativism and critical remarks on modernity and gender relations. "

Critical remarks, my ass. It's abuse porn, plain and simple. I just wish my 90s self had known, so I could have avoided them. Heh.

[tabaqui]

Yup. Sure, YMMV and kink how you like, but please don't try to pretend that what you're writing is anything other than porn with a ladle-full of misogyny on top.

[dantesspirit]

Yes! Two thumbs up!