Captive of Gor (Gorean Saga, 7)

I am a huge fan of Gor books, and purchased all 26 paperback editions few years ago. I only read the first 5-6 books, and fell in love with the Gorean saga. Recently I found "Assassin" and "Captive" in kindle wispersync format, which is awesome. The "Captive of Gor" was somewhat repetitive, but it was still a great book. It's one of the few books of Gor that is told from a female perspective. I enjoyed listening to it. Unfortunately not all of the series is on wispersync, actually very few books are, and that creates a gap. After "Assassin" there is "Raiders of Gor" (not on wispesync), and then there is "Captive of Gor". So the next book is "Hunters" and that one is also not available in wispersync format. So I have to read it on kindle or go back to the paperback. Captive of Gor has a romantic ending. The next book picks up right where the previous one ended. So you have to read them in sequence.

Throughout the first 5/6ths of the book, I begged to the Gorean Master's in the book to please feed Miss Elinor Brinton to a tark. It felt like Mr. Norman took all the worst attributes of a human being and assigned them to Ellinor. To make matters worse, she then spoke on behalf of all women, that we are all slaves and animals like her. Being a slave and being a submissive are different things. Though I dont support raging, crazy, idiotic feminists, I don't support people who hold opinions on the other extreme. Granted as a woman, I have submissive tendencies, I can only respect and love a superior and yes that terrifies the living crap out of me, however, I am not a slave in the sense that I am not bartered and I choose who I want to submit to. Just as women have issues with the power of men, some men like Mr. Norman has deep issues with the power of women. I found the Gorean culture fascinating and Mr. Norman's views of female submission accurate. I didn't agree with his philosophy that we should behave like Goreans on earth and that the only way a woman can trully love someone is through complete slavery and submission ( In the case of Elinor Brinton, she did need to get punished). Having dealt with many alpha male earthlings, on their behalf, I defend women's freedom because it makes the conquest far more interesting for them. They don't need to be exceedingly handsome, strong and intelligent, if they play their cards right they can attract and submit to their will hundreds of girls. Interestingly, many of these men have no issues with women having sex with them or attending the work-force. Why? Because they are genuine Alpha's and they don't need to impose their beliefs on the rest of society. I do think, that most women and men should embrace the challenges they confront in life, stop whining and learn to understand themselves as well as opposite gender instead of licking their narcissistic wounds Elinor Brinton style.

It was a very good story,with twists and turns tied in to previous volumes to its best effect ,very nicely done,I look forward to the next book in the series.

The `captive' of the title is Elinor Brinton, a poor little rich girl, whose loveless childhood has made her both misanthropic and misogynistic. Despite her unfortunate childhood, her self-regard is huge: she considers herself brilliant and the rest of humanity more or less witless. Although psychologically repugnant, she is beautiful enough, physically, to attract the attention of white slavers who abduct her and take her to the planet, Gor, where women of her beauty are likely to be made sex slaves and sold to the highest bidder. This fate falls to Elinor: under the threat of the lash or worse she is trained to be submissive to the dominant men who purchase and dominate her. She learns, perhaps paradoxically that being beaten by a man is an expression of his regard and comes to believe that the chains in which she is kept and the constant humiliations to which she is subject are no more than the biological due owed to the sexual dimorphism of human beings, the enslavement of the physically weaker sex being held up as the ideal for managing a human society. Eventually Elinor comes to understand how loathsome her behaviour once was and how much more decent a person the regime of humiliation and punishment has made of her. She falls in love with the excessively alpha male who has captured and tortured her. Although subject to some strange neoligisms invention of the author's the novel is beautifully written and, as one might expect from the pen of a professor of Philosophy, the `politically incorrect' philosophical underpinnings carry surprising conviction. A book to calculated to make the repressed male of Earth smile wryly and the frigid Earth female shrug with resignation. I imagine man-hating feminists who are able to find their way past the cover design would read it with self-righteous indignation.

A lot of repetition and very simplistic story, Plot was obvious from the start. Perhaps a good book to start a teenage boy masturbating, or on his way to misogyny...Def not useful as a guide to the D/s lifestyle or even TPE lifestyle. It's b-grade science fiction.

Came quickly and SO was happy to receive the next book in the series. Hasn't ready it yet do can't review on that.

This is the first book in the Gor series written from the perspective of a female. It's also one of the first that spends as much (or more) time on the philosophy of Gor than the individual story.

First, let me provide some context: - I have just discovered the Gorean novels - I have been reading them in sequence - I liked the first six novels, and I found them page-turners (not great, but good) - I AM a fan of Domination and submission and practice it in my private life But, just because I am into D/s doesn't mean my literary appreciation skills go out the window or my IQ drops. This one is a complete waste. I am forcing myself to read this tripe. I quite honestly don't understand how this was published. The author, the editor, and the publisher had to be smoking something. It's not the subject matter, it's the writing! It is repetitive **to the extreme**. It is BORING beyond belief. This same story could be told MUCH better (I have a hard time seeing it told any worse). The main character I just want to see shot and dumped in a ditch somewhere, complete waste of a woman. I have no problem with the story of a woman traversing a character development line. But this character, as written, is a complete loser. I had no vestment in her story except to see it end. I **seriously** found myself hoping that someone would put a crossbow bolt through her skull and that we'd then move to another character. First, she's unhappy to be a slave, then she's happy to be one, then she's unhappy, then she's happy, then she's a devious little... 'slave', then sad again, then happy, sad, and finally, in the last 30 page she finds herself - we think. The woman is written as a schizophrenic. I sure hope the rest of the series improves, because if not, this is the end for me. I have no problem reading about a woman captured on Earth, brought to Gor and her path of self-discovery as she goes from 'free' woman on Earth to 'slave' on Gor. But, this story is just written badly. Nowhere near the quality of the first 6 novels. I give it a 1 star and consider that rating spot-on. You can SKIP this book in the series as far as I can tell. The only thing that happens of note is that Tarl (Bosk) learns the general whereabouts of Talena. My review may seem harsh, but the hours in my life are limited, and I begrudge that this book took any of them. If this book had stood alone, there is no way I would have read more than a third of it before chucking it. But because the first 6 were good, and because there are 21 more novels after it, I decided to trudge on. If you read this in time - save yourself the $$ and the time, and move on to the next story, #8. I have not read it yet, but I know you can skip this one.