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Tarnsman Of Gor (Paperback)

by John Norman (Author)
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Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of earth. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life. One frosty winter night in the New England woods, he finds himself transported to the planet of Gor, also known as counter-earth, where everything is dramatically different from anything he has ever experienced. It emerges that Tarl is to be trained as a Tarnsman, one of the most honored positions in the rigid, caste-bound Gorian society. He is disciplined by the best teachers and warriors that Gor has to offer. . . but to what end?

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Start, Jun 1 2004
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This review is from: Tarnsman of Gor (Paperback)
This slightly shorter work sets the stage well for the world of Gor. It doesn't have the detail/philosophy of some of the later books but enough to give you a sense of a fascinating barbaric world.

The action is fast, the slave girls are few, notably this is perhaps one of the few books with a strong female character. And the thought of Talena follows us and Tarl Cabot himself throughout the books. It is a pity they do not meet again within the first twenty books.

In this book, as in the first 5, Tarl, though probably the mightiest and bravest swordsman on the planet, is still deep down an earth man, which makes the first person writing more palatable. In the later books he is much harsher- ie. a true Gorean male, though his cleverness and exploits are no less brave and amazing.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Read only if you have Aspirin, April 5 2004
By Switters (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tarnsman of Gor (Paperback)
First off, let me start by saying that I am a fantasy story/ sci fi fan. The ideas and plot in this story I found okay but a tad formulaic. But the thing that really bothers me is the way John Norman writes. Good Gods, it's horrible! The paragraphs are broken, choppy lacking any sense of proper gramatical structure and is MASSIVELY repetitive. To say that he repeats words cannot fully explain his "style". He has an annoying habit of writing things like....I, too, understood this.....they, too, saw this.......we, too, fought..... And descriptions? Boring, drab and again, repetitive. This man would benefit greatly from the use of a thesaurus! He takes 2 pages to say what could be said descriptively and thoroughly in a paragraph.

Another annoying habit that he has used on some occassions is creating words. Louis Carrol did this, as did some other authors too, but they had and have a command of the English language. Norman shouldn't be allowed to make up words from joining two or more every day words together. He is teetering on not being allowed to write at all...not even his name.

It saddens me to learn that John Norman is a college professor. It's no wonder that he teaches philosophy. Half the time you have to ponder hard trying to figure out how he is describing things such as big rocks.

I have read several of Norman's books. Each time I got a massive headache from reading it and had to quit or have my girlfriend translate the story from Norman-ese to English. Even then, we are wondering if that has anything to do with my girlfriend's sudden resurgence of migraines.

In short, Norman's stories are okay, by no means great, but his writing should make us all sorrowfull knowing that these were supposedly written by an educated man.

After reading how he writes his work, I wonder where the publisher's editors were. If anyone handed in a story like this to an English teacher or creative writing teacher, they would surely return it with an F emblazoned on the front.

Gor is a book series that people should read if there are no other books in existance and they really are in DESPERATE need bathroom material.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Adolescent Read become Bondage Bible, Feb 24 2008
By R. Johnston (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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In the 1970's I was a teenager and read a few of the Gor books along with every other sci-fi and fantasy book I could get my hands on. Mostly I remember they were enjoyable adventures -- I liked the characters riding on big birds (a 'tarn'). Imagine my surprise that these books are now popular as sedo-masocism guidebooks, marketed as such (check out some of the covers.), and scorned by feminists everywhere. I feel so used.
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4.0 out of 5 stars THE HIDDEN WORLD
Earth could never know of Gor, the world always on the opposite side of the sun. But Gor somehow knew about Earth, as Tarl Cabot soon discovered. Read more
Published on July 5 2004 by mdcerny

5.0 out of 5 stars Something Awful
The whole "World of Gor" thing began in 1967 when John Norman, a distinguished filthy old man who purchased a mail-order Ph. D. Read more
Published on Jun 24 2003

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