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Format: Kindle Book Label: eReads Manufacturer: eReads Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: February 18, 2004 Publisher: eReads Release Date: February 18, 2004 Studio: eReads Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Welcome to Gor, a parallel Earth, where social norms are exotic and the way of life is brutal. In the fifth book in the Gorean Series, the deadly assassin Kuurus is intent on a bloody mission of vengeance. His adventure takes him from the caste of the pleasure-slaves, which are rigorously trained in the rules and techniques of sexual ecstasy, to the brutal arenas where humans participate in deadly hand-to-hand combat. He witnesses violence, conflict and uncertainty, as the inhabitants of Counter-Earth are forced to confront their destinies-no matter how exalted or debased. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Last of the BestThis if one of the finest of the Gor series - written at a time when the tone of Norman's work was still vaguely romantic and his characters optimistic. It centres around intrigue in the city state of Ar (Glorius Ar!) and the machinations of Tarl Cabot's erstwhile father-in-law - the indomitable Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of Ubars (Lord of Lords), - who has lived in exile since the first novel in the series. Tarl thinks that he's been sent to Ar in disguise to discover and forstall the plans ... Read More Rating:  - Too over the topHaving read every single book in the Gor series, I can honestly say that this is the only one of the early books that I don't like, and can't re-read. Norman does best when the physical action is coming at you fast and furious; not so good when the only action taking place involves complex human interactions. Not only are many of the scenes way over the top, but there were too many characters to keep track of. At times, Tarl Cabot gets lost in the storyline. I simply didn't care enough ... Read More Rating:  - Assassin of GorI feel like an architecture critic being asked to appraise a hole in the ground. 'Assassin of Gor' looks like a particularly lazy and sloppy attempt to write low-rent porn in a scifi context. Which is hardly surprising, since that's what it is. Assessing it as a story, I might say that Norman frequently repeats the exact same sentence five or ten times in a scene; or that whole chapters are wasted expounding trivial details, such as when a character takes 36 pages (!) to lock a door; or that we get ... Read More Rating:  - Outstanding, top-notch action fantasyI read a lot. And the Gor series stands out. Great, great, great. If you like fantasy, it is obligatory to read the first five. Nomads and Assassins are the best. You can get reading copy sets off Ebay of these five for $25. I cannot imagine $25 better spent. If you have not done so, go for it, you'll not be disappointed. Raiders(6) is also good and has scenes that'll be with you for a long time, skip Captive (7) unless you really dig the slaving/SM side, Hunters (8) is a bit ... Read More Rating:  - THE TRAIL OF VENGEANCEKuurus was one of the dread caste of assassins on the hidden world of Counter-Earth. He was hired for twenty pieves of gold to avenge the death of a warrior. Now he was on his way to the great city of Ar, where he was forbidden by ancient sentence of death never to appear again. He knew nothing of his intended victim, save that the man had taken part in the savage tarn races at the Arena of Ar. And all he knew of the man he was to avenge was a name. The name was that of Tarl Cabot, the great warrior ... Read More 
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