PRIZE OF GOR...a review

Tal,

This girl finally finished Prize of Gor and as promised this girl will now give her opinion of the novel.

For the most part this girl enjoyed it. She liked the fact that an older lady, for she herself is getting up there in age, was taken to the planet and made a slave girl. Yes, yes, this girl realizes that it is not done to read about a woman being enslaved but as this girl has said earlier, such is the way of Gor. One accepts the civilization one reads about.  

 It is NOT Earth, nor, this girl hopes, will it ever be like Earth. It is,   after all science-fiction and is supposed to take you from your modern life and transport you to a whole different world. The novel for the most part did but it was far to long. It was a struggle for this girl to wade through the ideaology  to get to the developing conflict between Selius and Ellen. One thing that annoyed this girl as well, Ellen's on again, off again, feelings about what it felt like to be a slave girl. If you're going to fight against your "natural self" then do so instead of giving in, then fighting it, giving in, then fighting it, which ran through most of the book. Please do not misunderstand, this girl did enjoy the book, but it didn't need to be so long and was filled with the usual tiatribe that earlier books have. Without all the Master/slave ideaology, this girl figures the book would have been the standard 200 and some odd pages long. It does have merit but you do have to wade through a lot before you can find it. On a scale of 1 to 5 stars this girl gives it a 4, mainly for the romance between

Selius and Ellen. As this girl said, Norman could have developed the characters better and at least had Ellen over hear what was happening between Ar and Cos\

Perhaps by not mentioning too much of the conflict between Ar and Cos Norman is whetting our appetites for what is to happen in future novels. This girl hopes so.

I have begun to re-read Tarnsman and will review it when next we 'meet'. Until then....

I wish you well.

A post script...I have included a drawing I did many years ago of the male version of a paper doll set that I was making. It is hoped that you will find pleasure in downloading him and coloring him yourself. If you have the older Gor novels you can use it as a guide to color in the costume. Be sure to color his hair red. :)