Tarnsman of Gor Book

There seems to be 2 types of people reviewing this book:

1) Those who have read it many years ago as a teenager but are afraid to give an honest review as they have teenage kids now and spouses who may not like what they really thought about it at the time.

2) Those with an agenda - as this book was a controversy back in the bra burning days...

It seems as though women can read historical romance novels full of sex scenes and tight corsets and restrictive clothing that was nothing less than a lacey form of female bondage - that involve women being bought and sold through arranged marriages under a very dominant male society, but God forbid it if guys want to read the same thing under their own genre, whether or not they actually take that stuff seriously!

I really liked it and I think it would be less controversial for first time readers today as people have grown up a little bit since the bra burning era of the late 60's and 70's. Taken for what it is, it is just a fantasy...

I found it a refreshing change from the constant stream of politically correct nonsense coming out of publishing houses today.

Yes, girls in this book are bought and sold like property and there isn't a single female in this book who isn't wearing a dog collar or a pair of shackles or isn't being led about on a leash. Though if you actually read the book, the main character wants to stop all that, though the girls (probably thanks to Stockholm syndrome) appear to not want it to stop.

It is an exciting and easy read with plenty of sword action. The story is simple, Beowulfian, bad guy fights evil, saves a princess, becomes a hero, type storyline, but it's a fascinating world that Norman has pained and is well worth the couple of afternoons it will take you to read this short novel.

Many have compared this writer's style to the Edgar Rice Borroughs "Mars" novels, yet in the same breath berate this book for it's obvious bondage streak, yet Edgar Rice Burroughs' books had an openly pro-nudist stance. Mars could have been considered a nudist planet - by his writings. I see nothing wrong with writing about a planet of slave girls if it is a fantasy and is viewed as such by the reader.

Yes... You might want to talk with your son/daughter if you find this book tucked under his/her mattress. Though it's probably not as bad as some of the stuff teenage kids are reading today. I would think it would be far less of an influence on your teen than perhaps "Twilight" (aka: politically correct and wussified vampires)...

It's pretty tame book by today's standards.

In your imagination while you read, there will be:
Brief nudity
Adult situations
Female bondage and female submission
Mild sexual content
Torture
Graphic Violence