
Explorers of Gor
Gorean Saga, Book 13
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Narrated by:
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Ralph Lister
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By:
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John Norman
This enchanting escapade is the most important quest of Tarl Cabot's career. He must retrieve a potent shield ring from a strange explorer. It is imperative that the omnipotent Priest Kings obtain this ring so that the Goreans do not challenge their enormous power. Throughout his expedition, Cabot learns of uncharted territories on Earth's cosmic counterpart. In the dense forests he discovers, Cabot must use his skills to endure the perils that await his arrival. Cabot will encounter Gor's barbarism in full force through enchantingly dangerous beasts, bloodthirsty men, and exotic kingdoms.
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The problem is you!!
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Imaginative foray into the jungles of Gor
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Boy was I surprised it was the most boring book yet.
Norman uses a pretty consistent formula for these books. Hero (Tarl) goes to exotic area of Gor for (reason), meets a native of the area (Forkbeard/Hasan/Imnauk/etc) and become friends, meets haughty free women or freaked out earth women and enslaves them, finishes quest in swashbuckler fashion, returns home with new slaves.
The problem with Explorers is - the reason is dumb (retrieve a ring that makes you invisible, that is worn around the neck of a cartographer instead of making him invisible), and worse - the "sidekick" who plays off Tarl is Kisu - a flat, boring, native of the jungle who says little and whose only goal is to enslave the woman he was supposed to marry but she ended up being given to a bad guy. Kisu's dialogue is really boiled down to "Yes. River is wide this way. I want to save my people."
Never has a book offering lost cities, unusual animals (even by Gor standards), and cannibalism been so word by word dull. I think even Norman got bored because the action is grinding (lots of jungle battles here) and out of nowhere, the quest solved with one sentence then Kisu says "Yes she's my slave" and the boat from Schendi takes him back to Port Kar.
The saddest thing isn't that this book is glacially paced and ridiculously mundane, but that it didn't have to be that way. Instead of Tarl going into the "Heart of Darkness" we ge Tarl on his raft, stopping by Jungle Bell for a taco and coming back home still hungry.
Waster time, wasted plot.
Boredom on the Amazon - um...Ua River.
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Too wordy
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The performance is fine but I just cant take the weird Hungarian accent he gives the American girls " Ihhh aum ov Uuuurth". Though no girl was really worse than Elizabeth Cardwell's voice.
This is the book thats making me take a haitus for a long time. It's an absolute waste of a story that would have otherwise been good an interesting if not for the obsessiveness about the slave girls.
extremely subpar
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Endless boring dialogue
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Repetitive
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Too much filler
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