Guardsman of Gor (Gorean Saga) Paperback – May 6, 2014

I enjoy the characters and the story, but the author sometimes makes nearly interminable turns and repetitive diversions on the same topic... The natural order of men and woman. I don't mind the diversion or the discussion, I just mind that he does it iver and over and over, even in the same book.

From slave to freedom Jason becomes the Gorean man he was dreamed to be..Taking on the enemy of the towns and getting the slave he wanted.

Books of Gor from Norman aren't very serious but i just can't stop reading it. I recived this article quik and under protection. Thanks a lot.

this book gives a lot of miniscule info about the protocols and information about Gor not told before. it explains certain things left out of the other books

I am too busy reading the books (kindle or otherwise) to take the time to review them. I didn't like doing book reports in school, and I won't do them now that I don't have to for a grade. Leave me be!!!!

Guardsman of Gor culminates the trilogy centered on the new character of Jason Marshall, an everyday man who was abducted to Gor and forced into slavery. In the first two books Jason was bewildered at his circomstances, but his coming of age came when he escaped from slavery and gained his freedom.Like the great Fredrick Douglass (Read My Bondage My Freedom), Jason escapes and forces his former owners and tormenters to learn the error of their ways. Then he becomes a guardsman who fights against the pirates who are opressing the river towns of the Vosk River.This book was one of the few books where Norman went into detail concerning pirates, who had previously only been alluded to. Here we see pirates and a massive naval battle (A Rarity In The Gor Books). This was what enthralled me-and why I give it Four Stars. Seeing the fighting aboard vessels and the tactics that were used. I wish that Norman had gone into more details like these in his later books instead of boring us with verbose and pedantic ideas on the "superiority" of one gennder over another. I felt like saying: "OK, I get the idea and I heard it all before 100 times. Now I want adventure and action with the principle characters!"Ironic, because there is actually very little sex in any of these Gor books. Just theoretical discussions about what can and will and should be done, etc. If you want to read a really good book trilogy with lots of sex but with plenty of thick plot, I highly reccomend The Seer King, The Demon King and The Warrior King by the late Chris Bunch. See my review concening the Seer King. It was great! The character Damastes Cimabue would give Tarl Cabot a serious run for his money. A. Nathaniel Wallace, Jr.

Guardsman of Gor continues the story of Jason and Beverly, both from New Your City who were captured and transported to Gor in Fighting Slave. Guardsman begins with a naval battle on the Vosk river between pirate fleets and a loose confederation of river cities. Norman spends the first several chapters on three days of the battle during which time the battle is almost lost and the remaining 3 confederation ships make and escape. In a dramatic turn around things get better from there. While the river battle has been going on the men of the cities have formed a fighting alliance on land and wait in ambush for the remaining pirate vessels. Victory over the pirates is complete with Jason earning considerable wealth, including female slaves, captured from the pirate fortress. The last part of the book describes Jason as a dominant man of Gor, no longer the Earth wuss who had been controlled by feminist women in a feminist dominated culture. Jason plays match maker, distributing appropriate female love slaves to the heroes of the pirate battle who are now his friends. Because they are slaves, the females fall deeply in love with strong manly men who control and dominate them, much more so than Earth feminist women. Finally, Jason completes his complete enslavement and domination of the former Beverly of New York City, now transformed into a submissive Gorian love slave. Jason gives her a good whipping and makes her grovel at his feet. Miss. Beverly, now transformed into Norman's vision of true femininity, loves her life as Jason's salve and vows to serve him fully and well.I found the book tedious in many places with slow action and long repetitive conversations that could be skipped, especially in the last half. If you're reading the whole Gor series you might enjoy it and it wraps up the 3 Jason books. Tarl Cabot of Port Kar is not mentioned, nor are the Priest Kings or other space aliens, nor the war between Cos and Ar. The Fighting Slave trilogy stands by itself set on Gor as a commentary on Earth men and women. John Norman's commentaries on human sexual instincts and personalities is interesting, though some would disagree with his assessments.

This book continues the story of Jason rather than Tarl, which is a nice change of pace from what most of the Gorean books have been up to this point.

In a big fan of the Gor series i have been since they were first published. It's not easy to rate because I'm biased.This series won't suit everyone.If your a fan of John Norman you will have your own opinions on this series..If you haven't read any of this series and would like join the clan Start with the first novel Tarnsman Of Gor.