Don't go by what other people say, read the second book, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. When I was young it didn't bother me, because it is a different world, it's on a different planet for goodness sake.
Yes, some woman are slaves but there are free companians. In regard to the Master/slave issue in the book: it's a different world, not like Earth. As I don't want to ruin the book for any potential reader, I won't go to any favorite scenes from the book, but again it didn't disappoint me, in all honesty, it never does. Like in Tarnsman, having it read, helped bring the world even more alive for me, in truth, I could picture him in my mind as red haired Tarl, see his reaction to what happened to Ko-ro-ba, being on the towers of Tharna, being in the arena and the mines. I loved his reading of Tarnsman and knew I would enjoy it with this one.
Hearing it read by Ralph Lister was exciting. I was 15 when I first opened the pages of this novel. I am hoping the author grows in his abilities in the rest of the series, as I do want to continue with it. Overall I liked this book slightly more then the first and if you haven't read the first, you really don't need to start there. Then we get some more really lucky coincidences. The author does redeem himself later in a underground mining captive scene that I liked. Up to this point this was a five star book. The animal not only remembers him, but goes out of it's way to protect and help him escape. Our hero is in an arena and is suppose to be devoured by one of the more feared animals on the planet, when low and behold it's just happens to be his Tarn from six years before. I also found that the author is not a hack, he can write, (I bet he writes more acceptable books under a different name.) Then in chapter fourteen he starts to cheat and that starts to ruin the rest of the story. This story started out strong, I enjoyed the world that JN created and was getting lost in the action. The book is full of women who are naked and the author will usually say something like she was beautiful, but that is the extent of it.
If you are a teenage boy, hoping for some sex scenes, forget it. Was this an underground movement? It helped that the covers usually had scantly clad women on them, usually tied up. I like to visit used book stores and through the years I kept seeing this series of Gor books, which seem to be very popular in paperback, but never made it to hardback. It turns out women secretly want to be slaves to men, even when the men don' want to be there masters. In this book our hero ends up in a city where women rule, so of course love his illegal. If your reading this, then you have probably already read book one Tarnsman of Gor, so I don't need to go on about John Norman's world where women are property and that is the way they like it.
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