:;nods:; I hear you. I read them when I was a lot younger and into fantasy, fascinated in a sort of snake/bird kind of way. I had no access to fic that hit my kinks the way I do now (this was 25 years ago) and yeah, bits of them worked for me :;shrugs:;
But so very much of it didn't.
Part of it was the sudden flip the series took early on from, if you took away the slavery aspects, a derivative but not unreadable fantasy with actual plot and some interesting aliens, to a treatise on Women: the subjugation of.
He lost the plot. He lost a sympathetic lead. He made Elizabeth, the Earth woman who tried to change the society and who was intelligent, sassy and brave into one of a gazillion slaves mouthing platitudes.
And he got oh my God, so boring. He'd do an entire chapter on the coins of Gor. No joke. They were travel guides.
And the men who were worshipped by the scores of slaves were deemed worthy of that worship because they had a penis. End of story. They could be cowardly jerks, and many were, but even the best, brightest, noblest woman would still be expected to get off on kneeling to them. Hey, you earn that, mate.
I don't think I could read one now without frothing at the mouth and I really wish they hadn't been resurrected, but I have to say, there was a man who got paid for writing the same book 30 times; got to admire the scam.
Oh -- and I've just remembered what finally pissed me off enough to stop reading. I read them out of order but I got the idea that he was visiting a different Earth culture that just happened to have a counterpart on Gor with the exact same traditions as on Earth (yes. I know). So the lead would go to a country with Eskimos, Vikings, or Red Indians, or whatever. And he'd always sleep with their slaves. Always.
Then he went to The Jungle, with slaves that were black and did he sleep with them? Oh, no. Not once. In fact, he took along white, blonde slaves to use.
I'll put up with a lot to finish a series because I'm like that, but dull AND racist was just a bit too much.
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But so very much of it didn't.
Part of it was the sudden flip the series took early on from, if you took away the slavery aspects, a derivative but not unreadable fantasy with actual plot and some interesting aliens, to a treatise on Women: the subjugation of.
He lost the plot. He lost a sympathetic lead. He made Elizabeth, the Earth woman who tried to change the society and who was intelligent, sassy and brave into one of a gazillion slaves mouthing platitudes.
And he got oh my God, so boring. He'd do an entire chapter on the coins of Gor. No joke. They were travel guides.
And the men who were worshipped by the scores of slaves were deemed worthy of that worship because they had a penis. End of story. They could be cowardly jerks, and many were, but even the best, brightest, noblest woman would still be expected to get off on kneeling to them. Hey, you earn that, mate.
I don't think I could read one now without frothing at the mouth and I really wish they hadn't been resurrected, but I have to say, there was a man who got paid for writing the same book 30 times; got to admire the scam.
Oh -- and I've just remembered what finally pissed me off enough to stop reading. I read them out of order but I got the idea that he was visiting a different Earth culture that just happened to have a counterpart on Gor with the exact same traditions as on Earth (yes. I know). So the lead would go to a country with Eskimos, Vikings, or Red Indians, or whatever. And he'd always sleep with their slaves. Always.
Then he went to The Jungle, with slaves that were black and did he sleep with them? Oh, no. Not once. In fact, he took along white, blonde slaves to use.
I'll put up with a lot to finish a series because I'm like that, but dull AND racist was just a bit too much.