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<blockquote data-quote="Assenpfeffer" data-source="post: 516029" data-attributes="member: 9061">I had similiar feelings about the series.&nbsp; The first 6 books or so had a facinating setting which had roots in Burroughs' Barsoom stuff but diverged significantly from it with Book 2.&nbsp; They had a reasonably subtly developed sex fantasy going on (&quot;reasonably&quot; as in &quot;obviously but not overpoweringly&quot;) in the background, but it was possible to ignore that if you chose to focus on the interesting society and traditions (the Home Stone, the Tarn race that Plane Sailing mentions, etc.)&nbsp; And each book was mostly independent, but there was a compelling plot that wover between them.In Book 7 the series abruptly shifted.&nbsp; The sex fantasy became the primary focus of the series (by about Book 13, it was the only thing the series dealt with.)&nbsp; And the writing, always turgid (but tolerable in the early books) became insufferable.If I wanted to use a setting like Gor as an RPG setting, I'd change the names and file off the serial numbers, and delete any elements I didn't like (the silly sex fantasy.)&nbsp; Done that way it might make a decent setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Assenpfeffer, post: 516029, member: 9061"] I had similiar feelings about the series. The first 6 books or so had a facinating setting which had roots in Burroughs' Barsoom stuff but diverged significantly from it with Book 2. They had a reasonably subtly developed sex fantasy going on ("reasonably" as in "obviously but not overpoweringly") in the background, but it was possible to ignore that if you chose to focus on the interesting society and traditions (the Home Stone, the Tarn race that Plane Sailing mentions, etc.) And each book was mostly independent, but there was a compelling plot that wover between them. In Book 7 the series abruptly shifted. The sex fantasy became the primary focus of the series (by about Book 13, it was the [i]only[/i] thing the series dealt with.) And the writing, always turgid (but tolerable in the early books) became insufferable. If I wanted to use a setting like Gor as an RPG setting, I'd change the names and file off the serial numbers, and delete any elements I didn't like (the silly sex fantasy.) Done that way it might make a decent setting. [/QUOTE]

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