The tv news is talking about some of the sex slavery books that Epstein apparently ordered from Amazon, as documented in today's file release.
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The tv news is talking about some of the sex slavery books that Epstein apparently ordered from Amazon, as documented in today's file release.
I wonder if one of them was Tarnsman of Gor. (Yes, I've read the first few books in the series and at least one parody of it. No, I'm not proud.)
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@emery I never could bring myself to do it. I knew that he was heavily inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs and I'd read the John Carter books (I will never, ever forgive Disney for making a very good adaptation and then completely bungling the marketing of it that badly) but from what I heard of the content...
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@theotherbrook I was 17 or 18 when I read it. The book was there and I didn't know any better, because it was pre-internet and how would I have known? So I started reading... and then I was too fascinated to stop reading.
(Fascinated in the way that a deer must feel, staring into headlights.)
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@emery I read about them somewhere when I was maybe 15 and I remember there was not a hint of "wink wink nudge nudge" in the descriptiong. Considering that at that point I was voraciously reading Heavy Metal and various "men's interest" magazines I wouldn't have been able to buy legally it must have been pretty strongly phrased to make me not seek them out.
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@theotherbrook Well, for starters, it's just terrible writing.
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@emery I'm assuming it's worse than typical pulp SFF.
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@theotherbrook I mean.. I read so much pulp and other crap in my teenage years that I'm not sure I can really judge whether Gor was worse. That said, I don't recall typical pulp SFF having sex slaves.
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@theotherbrook That said... Houseplants of Gor is a (thankfully brief) accurate parody.
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@emery @theotherbrook I mean, Houseplants of Gor is a classic of literature, isn't it? :D
(I don't think I've ever stumbled on the Gor books, because just barely pre-internet, and in a non English speaking country, but I suspect that if I had done so at the right age I would have definitely read them. Or at least the first book or two? if the prose if really like Houseplants of Gor I think I would have had to be desperate to continue reading, but I have been desperate, at times :D )
