August 2019: Reading Thread

[OHB]

listeningto the first book in the gor series. so far don't really understand what the fuss is about. medieval type society with slaves and warrios and priests... it treats women bad? so far didn't listen to anything undue

I've never read the Gor books, but I know someone who has. His opinion was that the series started off well but the later books obsessed over the female slaves (and not in a good way). It got so bad that he stopped reading the series before reaching the end.

 

[tobl]

I've never read the Gor books, but I know someone who has. His opinion was that the series started off well but the later books obsessed over the female slaves (and not in a good way). It got so bad that he stopped reading the series before reaching the end.

i don't mean to be annoying but can anyone tell me from which book is the gor series diverted to sex slaves?

 

[Danny McG]

i don't mean to be annoying but can anyone tell me from which book is the gor series diverted to sex slaves?

From memory so I may be wrong...
Fighting Man of Gor

 

[Simbelmynë]

I’m reading The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, and a book called The Myth of the Goddess, which details the history of religion and culture from the viewpoint of a universal matriarchal religion changing slowly over the course of millennia into our current more patriarchal way of viewing the world. It would be easy to be cynical of the later book as I don’t go in for any ideology if possible, feminism included, but i’m finding it refreshing, if a little dense and academic for my humble mind. The excerpts from ancient hymns and poetry are especially poignant.

I also read a couple of short stories by Ursula K Le Guin, from her collection The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, including an excellent entry called Nine Lives.

 

[tobl]

From memory so I may be wrong...
Fighting Man of Gor

do you mean fighting slave of gor?

 

[Brian G Turner]

The Myth of the Goddess

I've just looked this up on Amazon and it looks seriously interesting - have added it to my wishlist. Cheers for the recommendations.

 

[hitmouse]

From memory so I may be wrong...
Fighting Man of Gor

The series starts to get a bit odd from book 3 onwards, but if you want to skip over the routine action and get straight to the kinky stuff then Danny's advice is reliable.

 

[tobl]

The series starts to get a bit odd from book 3 onwards, but if you want to skip over the routine action and get straight to the kinky stuff then Danny's advice is reliable.

is not a question of skipping, is just that so far i didn't find anything outrageous.and there's no book with that title

 

[tobl]

I’m reading The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, and a book called The Myth of the Goddess, which details the history of religion and culture from the viewpoint of a universal matriarchal religion changing slowly over the course of millennia into our current more patriarchal way of viewing the world. It would be easy to be cynical of the later book as I don’t go in for any ideology if possible, feminism included, but i’m finding it refreshing, if a little dense and academic for my humble mind. The excerpts from ancient hymns and poetry are especially poignant.

if you want something quite good about that, here you go:

Amazon.com: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future: 9780062502896: Eisler, Riane: Books

Amazon.com: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future: 9780062502896: Eisler, Riane: Books

www.amazon.com

the chalice and the sword

 

[Danny McG]

do you mean fighting slave of gor?

Yep!
Was he not abducted from Earth, trained as a gladiator but then bought by a Gor noblewoman who wanted a bed slave?

He then seems to Tom-cat his way around the city, having his way with tied up slave girls before he finally begins fighting

 

[tobl]

Yep!
Was he not abducted from Earth, trained as a gladiator but then bought by a Gor noblewoman who wanted a bed slave?

He then seems to Tom-cat his way around the city, having his way with tied up slave girls before he finally begins fighting

ok, going to try that one to see what all the fuss is about. so far is just barsoom llike

 

[HareBrain]

I'm reading Armageddon by Max Hastings, about the battle for Germany 1944-5. He does a very good job of moving between the big strategic picture and the personal experiences of soldiers and civilians.

 

[Danny McG]

Ordnance by Andrew Vaillencourt.
looking good so far, the adventures of an obsolete military cyborg

Finished this, I didn't realise it was book one of an already published series of, so far, five books.

The story wasn't too bad but the spelling started to wear on me.

Page after page of 'from' and 'form' getting confused. Also 'know' and 'now'.

Clearly the writer's weakness because everything else in the book was fine!

A nice little mil sci fi yarn, with a bit of a mystery thrown into the mix.

 

[The Big Peat]

Reading Emma Bull's War of the Oaks

 

[Danny McG]

Right now I am reading When the English Fall by David Williams. This is his debut novel and it is a GEM! I will say more when I've finished

I had a go at this but got a bit confused.
(I've saved it in my ebook file and will probably return some time to finish it)

 

[Vertigo]

I had a go at this but got a bit confused.
(I've saved it in my ebook file and will probably return some time to finish it)

He is sometimes a little slow to reveal some details which is possibly a consequence of the diary style approach but it does all come together, I don't think there was any confusion left by the end although there were some deliberately unanswered questions.

 

[Danny McG]

He is sometimes a little slow to reveal some details which is possibly a consequence of the diary style approach but it does all come together, I don't think there was any confusion left by the end although there were some deliberately unanswered questions.

Riiight, I'll have another stab at it next month, once the bratoids are back at school .

 

[tobl]

Yep!
Was he not abducted from Earth, trained as a gladiator but then bought by a Gor noblewoman who wanted a bed slave?

He then seems to Tom-cat his way around the city, having his way with tied up slave girls before he finally begins fighting

Thanks mate. I'm loving the first minutes of the book

 

[Randy M.]

Reading Emma Bull's War of the Oaks

Curious to hear what you think. It's on my shorter TBR for later this year. (Which really means nothing I suppose. I make piles of books to read then when the time comes to choose one, I pick one from a different pile. But a good response from others sometimes tips the balance.)

Randy M.

 

[Danny McG]

He is sometimes a little slow to reveal some details which is possibly a consequence of the diary style approach but it does all come together, I don't think there was any confusion left by the end although there were some deliberately unanswered questions.

Annoying that he mentions over and over the lullaby as sang by the English..but never reveals it, or does he?