Hunters of Gor

Gorean Saga, Book 8

By: John Norman

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Former Earthman Tarl Cabot is now a powerful Tarnsman of the brutal and caste-bound planet of Gor, also known as Counter-Earth. He embarks on an adventure in the dangerous and mysterious wilderness of Gor, pitting his warrior's skills against treacherous outlaws, bandits, and fighters. Three different women are working to bring change to Tarl's far-from-peaceful life on Gor: Talena, his one-time queen and first love; Elizabeth, his brave fighting partner; and the Amazonian Verna, chief of the fierce and wild panther women. As Tarl journeys through the wilderness, the fates of these three remarkable women will finally be decided.

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first book of the Gorean Saga, Tarnsman of Gor, E-Reads is proud to release the very first complete publication of all Gor books by John Norman, including the long-awaited 26th novel in the saga, Witness of Gor. Many of the original Gor books have been out of print for years, but their popularity has endured.

©1974 John Norman (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

still love the series.

still love the series. will continue to listen to listen to the rest of series

Gorean Saga

The Gorean series is basically Conan the barbarian meets a smut novel on another world. There's lots of violent battles and vicious giant man eaters with a dash BDSM. The series gets a little repetitive as the books go on but not to badly for a 20 plus book series. If you liked the John Carter in 'A Princess of Mars' series most likely you'll enjoy these books there very similar. I prefer the Gorean series myself, except the ones narrated by women which I haven't bought so don't know if there good or not I personal dislike women narrates.

Some of Norman's Best

Tarl having left the service of priest-kings continues to be a bit of a jerk. In his wandering however he keeps finding his honor even though as a character he thinks he has lost it. I cannot help but think that he has, in his elevated humility, discovered his Humanity again. I think he is closer to accepting it but not yet.

This book contains some of John Norman's worst writing so far in his repeating of ideas and overstating internal dialog. But it also has some of his most brilliant writing...artful conveying of his ideas. It's worth reading.

JCW

I really do love these books, however this one seemed to have a lot of repetitive reading which was a little annoying

Fantastic

What made the experience of listening to Hunters of Gor the most enjoyable?

Excellent series all around wish someone would put these books out faster.
Ralph Lister gives an excellent voice to Norman's works.

best book of series

ove it want more there goes anothe credit to John Norman. Classics never get old this is a national treasure.

again awsome very

very well narration was great to listen to and had lots of excitement id love to live there

Excellent

I love & hate gor!! As always something keeps us all coming back over and over. Are we all slaves to Gor?

I FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVED THIS BOOK

Tal and greetings.

What can I say about this book other than it had me throughly involved in the story, It did the last four times I read it. Yet I forgot how much I loved the book. It is true that in this book Tarl talks A LOT, about the enslavement of women, but what is funny is that when I read it I always tried to hurry over those passages, but having the story read to me, I think I began to understand what Norman was saying about females serving masters, and how much the women care for them. Many times they do free slaves but many times the women submit go back to those men who freed them. It is the men who "awaken" them and I don't mean violently, but with tenderness.

In this book, Tarl is determined to rescue his love Talena, who, through El-in-or a slave mentioned in Captive, was taken by Verna, who got her from Rask of Treve. Since he changed so much, he still wanted her for a free companion but as a tool to become even more powerful than what he was. There were times that I wanted to smack him, I hated his attitude, yet, at times, I could still see the person he once was before his encounter with Talima (Raiders).

One thing I disliked, was his treatment of Elizabeth Cardwell, (aka Vella, Tana). He said he wasn't angry with her for not returning to Earth as he requested (Assissin), that she decided to stay on Gor. For all of it's dangers, she loved the planet, and she also loved Tarl. Goreans don't thank slaves, yet, he could have bought her, freed her, given her money so she could attempt to set up a business on Gor, but he didn't. So I believe he was angry with her and ended up punishing her by telling the paga tavern owner that she could dance and that she hadn't been totally honest with him. It is not good for a slave to hide things from their master. In my eyes he was cruel.

Tarl is a bitter man, that is one thing I didn't like about him, just because he chose life over death(Raiders). Now he just wants to be rich and be done with service to the Priest Kings. The problem is the "Others" know of him and want him dead. So he's not done with them.

I forgot that this book got my emotions involved again because of what happened to him when he was struck by a couple of swords during a battle when he rescued Marlenus, the Ubar of Ar, I really felt bad for him. What I did like is that when the Ubar warned him not to enter Ar, Tarl stood up to him. Usually, no one stands up to Marlenus. For all of his spewing that he hated the Ubar of Ubars, he did respect the man and he was Talenas father and I believe , admired him. Besides one can't blame Marlenus, his honor took a beating when Tarl took the home stone of Ar so many years ago. Marlenus hasn't been able to forgive him, that a mere warrior caused him to abandon his city and was exiled from it for years. So although it seems Marlenus was neverdefested he was by Tarl, who was just a warrior.

Well, I will end the review here. It was enjoyable to listen to and I really love hearing Ralph Lister being Tarl Cabot. His voice really brings it alive for me.

'Til my review of Marauders...

I wish you well.

Typical John Norman

If you're interested in reading this it's likely because you've read other novels of Gor. That being the case, you won't experience much of anything new with regards to the redundancy on his writing style. What you will get is some forward movement of the Tarl Cabot story, especially in regards to Talena so I consider it worth the time spent. The performance is definitely above average. My only complaint is the subjective preferences of some pronunciations.