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Title: Gor, Lost in Adaptation or merely Lost?
Post by: Kester Pelagius on July 03, 2009, 10:05:31 AM
That's the question on Cosmic Cinema's (http://cosmic-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/07/gor-lost-in-adaptation-or-merely-lost.html) mind as we go into this wonderful 4th of July weekend.  So if you love sci-fi and fantasy take a moment to unwind and share your thoughts on Gor, Lost in Adaptation or merely Lost? (http://cosmic-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/07/gor-lost-in-adaptation-or-merely-lost.html) before gorging on all that wonderful BBQ goodness.

Don't know what Gor is?  No worries the article explains a bit about that.  Also there reviews currently up of the premo 80s sword-and-sandal B-movie weirdness that was OUTLAW OF GOR (http://cosmic-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/07/outlaw-of-gor.html) and GOR (http://cosmic-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/06/gor_29.html). That said. .

Who's see these movies?  Anyone here actually read the novels?   Are they as bad as the movies?
Title: Re: Gor, Lost in Adaptation or merely Lost?
Post by: meQal on July 03, 2009, 11:20:55 AM
I have seen one of these, don't remember which one it was but was suppose to be the first in the series. It was a bad movie. I can't say that the books are the same or not because I never read them. I do know that they must be rather popular because it has a cult following. It even turns up in a subculture in the online game Second Life where some people have entire virtual land areas in the game devoted to the entire Gor mythos.
Title: Re: Gor, Lost in Adaptation or merely Lost?
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 03, 2009, 05:27:25 PM
I read one of the novels but never saw the movies.  It was basically a softcore porn bondage novel disguised as a fantasy novel.  The sex elements were much more pronounced, thematically, than the fantastic elements or the adventure story.  There was a lot of emphasis on how the women learned to love sexually slavery against their will--pretty disturbing stuff, really. 
Title: Re: Gor, Lost in Adaptation or merely Lost?
Post by: Chang Saam on July 04, 2009, 06:49:15 PM
I remember posting a small review of Gor in a recent viewings post way back in the day when I was Rumyungyungsonson. A bad movie for sure but still fun to watch. Never read the books, but I might look into them some day.
Title: Re: Gor, Lost in Adaptation or merely Lost?
Post by: Kester Pelagius on July 06, 2009, 03:07:37 PM
The conclusion to the article is now live.  While comments are welcome and anonymous commenting should is on be advised some have reported problems, so if you can't leave a comment on the blog feel free to reply here.

Before I forget; the link: http://cosmic-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/07/gor-lost-in-adaptation-or-merely-lost_06.html

meQal,

I know the novels are supposed to be popular, yet I've never found any in a used book store, thrift shop, or flea market.  Thus I've had to rely on excerpts posted online.   Some of which are so painful to read I scarecely believe they're real quotes from a published novel.  Of course some of those excerpts are longer than others but. .   :wink:

Rev. Powell,

Were the novels really that poorly written?

Title: Re: Gor, Lost in Adaptation or merely Lost?
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 07, 2009, 11:42:48 AM
Quote from: Kester Pelagius on July 06, 2009, 03:07:37 PM


Rev. Powell,

Were the novels really that poorly written?



It's hard to say.  I read one or two, probably when I was about 12 or 13, so that was over twenty years ago.  I don't remember much about the plot, except that the economy and social order of Gor was built around slavery.  I remember that whatever the adventure story was, it bored me.  So I skimmed ahead and read the sex scenes, and there were lots and lots of them.  I remember not really being aroused by them: the bondage/slavery stuff was just too weird for me.  Even at that age, I sensed the author had some kind of psychological issues, and was obsessed with bizarre sex stuff that didn't appeal to me.  It just seemed "wrong," and I mean both morally and psychologically. 

It's possible that for fantasy bondage novels, they were really well written, with lots of psychological depth, and I just didn't "get it" at the time.  I think the series stuck in my mind all this time because it was my first encounter with a sex fetish.