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MARINERS OF GOR is a direct sequel to SWORDSMEN OF GOR and the action picks up immediately from the end of the earlier book. Many on Gor do not believe the great ship, the ship of Tersites, the lame, scorned, half-blind, half-mad shipwright, originally of Port Kar exists. Surely it is a matter of no more than legend. In the previous book, however, SWORDSMEN OF GOR, we learn that the great ship, commissioned by unusual warriors for a mysterious mission, was secretly built in the northern forests, and brought down the Alexandra to Thassa, the sea, beginning her voyage to the "World's End," hazarding waters beyond the "farther islands," from which no previous ship had returned. In MARINERS OF GOR one learns the history and nature of the voyage through vast, dangerous, and uncharted waters, a voyage beset with dangers, both within and without the ship. One encounters storms and calms, fearful marine life and volcanic seas, hardships, treacheries, intrigues, desertions, and mutinies, and entrapments in ice and later amongst the thick, broad tendrils of the narcotic Vine Sea, and, eventually, once come to the "World's End," one learns what has been the intent and meaning of this mysterious enterprise, and the human ferocities into which the mariners find themselves introduced.
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Odysseus - the Gorean way, Nov 4 2011
By K. Carlton "Funk & Jazz Lover" - Published on Amazon.com
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Ce commentaire est de: Mariners of Gor (Paperback)
Hello everyone. This review is from the Kindle version of the book. First off, let me say that I am a long time John Norman fan. Very much at home in the other worldly adventures of Tarl Cabot, et. al, on the World Of Gor. This review also assumes that you have read Swordsmen of Gor (the book before this one). One presumes this is a trilogy but I could be wrong. Norman doesn't give too many hints on where his plot or characters are going from book to book unless it is obvious. The grand adventure starts in Swordsmen where the gigantic ship of Tersites is built; Tarl is compelled to "play nice" with the Pani (and lead them as Commander, of course) and off they go. Mariners is told from two 1st persons point of view, I believe. The main protagonist is Callias from Cos and he play a rather large role in the book. His observations of Tarl Cabot and Tarl's actions and demeanor are pretty cool. "For such an officer one would die" is mentioned a couple of times. Seremides is quite the villain in this book and gets a small come-uppance but you want to definitely get the book to read those passages. The ship sails and takes quite a beating from various forces, internal and external. The book is quite good. It took me a while to figure out who the real villain was in the book so now I'm definitely chomping at the bit for number 31! You would think a story told almost completely on a ship at sea would get boring - nope. John Norman does a good job keeping the action going except, of course, when he goes into his "slave girls are great" spiel. The end of the book is somewhat mellow; very anti-climatic in my opinion. However,one realizes that there has to be another story (called at this time "Conspirators of Gor") so one is inclined to let ending be and get ready for another ride in book 31. Again, I enjoyed reading this book; I think you will too.
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Best of the non-Tarl books, Nov 15 2011
By Dan - Published on Amazon.com
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Ce commentaire est de: Mariners of Gor (Paperback)
Although I always long for Tarl Cabot - the thousand-year warrior - when I read a John Norman book, I must admit this was perhaps the best of those which do not feature Cabot as the protagonist. It is something of an Odyssey-like epic, and the swordsman who is the hero is engaging. (It does help that Cabot is an undisguised background character.) It is also nice to have a character who is not wallowing in his dishonor all the time, even if he has had some setbacks.It was great to see the great ship of Tersites at work at last! That alone is not to be missed.
As always, I have to read around the fetish scenes, but it was not too tough, as there was enough other text to make it worth it.
This novel makes the reader long for the sequel, but wraps up the individual story, which does not always happen with fantasy.
This story only begins to explore the Japanese culture, and I look forward to more in the next book. Exploring adventures in other cultures is half the fun of Gor.
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