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Originally Posted by Bev
John Norman's Gor Series is for me the worst written fantasy series of all time. I'd be hard pressed to decide which I hated more, the content or the prose style.
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The content didn't bother me for the first five or six Gor books. After that, the female slavery and BDSM became foreground elements and the point of the books. The closer Tarl Cabot got to being a true Gorean male, the more boring and one dimensional he became, and the less interesting the books were.
Stylistically, Norman is prone to expository lumps, like interrupting the building description of a sea battle with a pages long digression on Gorean shipbuilding technology and naval tactics.
Amusingly, some of the Gor Books were returned to print in the 90's by porn publisher Masquerade Books.
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Dennis