[ SECRET POST #2254 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2254 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[family guy (?), warning for cartoon rape]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 058 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

09. http://i46.tinypic.com/2hcqgph.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I love the bugdude hanging out there. The guy and the girl are getting their sexy poses on, and he's just like, sup guys! I'm a bugdude!

[(Anonymous)]

Misk is the bugdude in question. He's a much more interesting character than the unintentional antihero.

[(Anonymous)]

I got me these sweet antennae! What's crackin?

[fingalsanteater]

Hahaha. He looks more confused and scared to me. Like, "What the hell is going on here?! Should I, uh, should I just come back later? I'll-I'll just come back later..."

[(Anonymous)]

... I thought he was a statue. In my defense, I remember a lot of bookcovers (and movie posters) in this style which have Burly!Man and NearlyNaked!Woman posing in front of Monster!Statue in Hidden!Temple/Evil!Lair.

That said, the bugdude is a lot more sheepish-looking than most of those statues. He looks like he's been pointing something out for the past ten minutes, hello while Burly!Dude has been too busy waving his swords in NearlyNaked!Woman's face. Uh, guys? Other things to be doing, over here?

...Actually, just for that, I think I like Bugdude. He at least looks like he has some sense of priority.

[4thofeleven]

I assume they're meant to be mandibles, but it looks more like a big goofy mustache. I'm going to assume that's his human disguise, or how he puts people at ease.

"No, I'm not a scary bug-dude! I'ma human person like you - see, I have a mustache! Would a bug-dude have a mustache?!"

[(Anonymous)]

I've never heard of this but it looks like the written word equivalent of a 50s B movie and I want to read the whole series.

[(Anonymous)]

If only. I've not read it but that's not what this is about. They're seriously creepy and bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor

[(Anonymous)]

Go for it!

ha ha ha ha ha

OP

[(Anonymous)]

...and I want to read the whole series.

No, you don't. You will either fall asleep from boredom or commit arson out of rage within the first seven books at most. But the early books did, in fact, have that amusing '50s B-movie ring to them, as you put it. If you're deeply curious, read the first three to six books, but go no further. By that time, you will have seen the best of what the series has to offer. The rest is tedium, misogyny, and narcissism. (That said, the dialogue is written so incompetently that it's good for laughs, especially later on. Actual quote from book number nine: "Prepare a feast! Let a feast be prepared!")

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

...that just kinda makes me want to read it more, but only if I can find a reading buddy and we have a little MSLibrary3K thing going on.

Re: OP

[fingalsanteater]

Riffing bad books isn't as fun a riffing bad movies. Bad books waste more of your time.

Re: OP

[chardmonster]

"Prepare a lady butt! Let a lady butt be prepared!"

"But I do not want t--"

"The lady butt touched silk and will be prepared."

[(Anonymous)]

There are some parody fics that sum up the setting and writing style, I suggest those.

[(Anonymous)]

What I want to know is how the OP even ended up reading Gor novels to begin with. Were they lacking access to decent sci-fi or something?

OP again

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, I've never been at a loss for decent science fiction. I could tell you the history of how I came to read John Norman's pathological magnum opus, but for the sake of concision, I'll just say that I discovered the books by accident and later started a quest to read them all, hoping that I'd find at least one book that I liked. Priest-Kings of Gor is that book.

Re: OP again

[(Anonymous)]

Priest-Kings was my favorite as well, anon. For one thing, Cabot had the tables turned on him...but really, I just loved Misk. Although I imagined him more like a giant hump-backed turtle-thing with antennae and fuzzy legs, rather than what is depicted on this cover.

But I thought the whole "language of scents" things was very cool.

[tabaqui]

My brother had about 10 of these books and i read them because they were there. He read them mostly because they were kind of porny, i imagine, and i read them in sheer fascination that people actually thought like that.

Plus - nascent interest in bondage/D/s-type porny stuff and hello, late seventies in the middle of Missouri, where *else* was i going to get that?

[(Anonymous)]

I love these pulp covers. I read all my mom's old Tarzan books when I was a kid because the covers were so delightfully...pin-up. (the mars books were even better lol)

[tabaqui]

Yes! And i'm pretty sure all the Gor books had covers by 'Boris', who did a lot of that kind of stuff.