FORUM NOTES - JANUARY 3rd 2010
WEEKLY BOOK DISUCSSIONS
WEEKLY BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Xertog 19:27:01 pm CST
Lets get the forum started. The normal weekly rules apply. Please keep the greeting, exits, RP and chit chat to whispers.
Xertog 19:29:00 pm CST
I'll be making a post about this on the message board but I'd like to address it here first.
I lead a weekly book discussion in GS back in 2007. We started reading book #1 Tarnsman of Gor and got through book #3. When we started book #4 the interest in it wained enough that I decided to end it. I'd like to see if there is enough interest to start it back up.
Are there any people that would be interested in participating in a weekly book discussion?
stormy{Xg~L} 19:29:42 pm CST
stormy would enjoy that Master
Ramses 19:29:51 pm CST
I'd like to give it another try Xertog
snowrose{LT} 19:30:36 pm CST
beginning from Tarnsman Master?
Xertog 19:31:33 pm CST
It seemed last time we'd get more people showing up that didn't do the reading then did. Some weeks I felt like I was giving a book report more then having a discussion.
Jarl Thorrn 19:31:58 pm CST
problem is, it is hard in My country to get any of the books
Are there gorean books somewhere online?
Alias 19:32:07 pm CST
I'd need to have someone blow the dust off my old paperback copy.
Xertog 19:34:34 pm CST
snowrose I think we have 4 options on what book to start with.
Each with fairly good reasons behind them.
Book #1. Tarnsman of Gor. This would be best for people that have not read any of the books.
Book #4 Nomads of Gor This would be best for people that participated in the book discussion in the past since they would not have to reread books 1 through 3 again.
Book #6 Raiders of Gor. This book has the most focus on the City of Port Kar. It would give people a better understand of the city.
Book #27 Prize of Gor. This is the latest book in the series that was published last year.
I'm open to suggestions of any of these or others.
Thorrn they sell online version of most of the book now.
nasreen{TH} 19:37:02 pm CST
Jarl Thorn here is a site that has some of the books..
amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=john+norman+gor+series&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=3400697651&ref=pd_sl_80r84ylaa8_e
bubbles{GS} 19:37:11 pm CST
gal thinks book discussions based on a certain scenrio for Port Kar room would be good, like the last scenrio was about panther girls, and maybe more didn't show up because they didn't know anything about them or how they could interact with them? gal thinks that was Hunters of Gor?
Alias 19:37:29 pm CST
I'd like to get secondhand copies of the real books (not online) of the books I'm missing.
stormy{Xg~L} 19:37:47 pm CST
Assassins might be one Master, stormy believe where it involves Port Kar
bubbles{GS} 19:38:49 pm CST
at one time, gal had met a savage of gor, and it was challenging and fun to learn of those ways and the difference in speech and such, so a book discussion about savages would be good and then maybe a scenrio that would fit it afterwards?
bubbles{GS} 19:39:16 pm CST
Master Alias, you can find near any or all of them on ebay
snowrose{LT} 19:41:18 pm CST
snowrose had read the first three and began Nomads, so she votes for #4...she plans to read them in order...but will still attend the club, regardless of which book is being read
Alias 19:41:37 pm CST
Is Ebay reliable, anyone can sell anything there, could end up with a pig in a poke!
Jarl Thorrn 19:42:01 pm CST
thanx for the hints
Krogon 19:42:13 pm CST
the early books are 25-40 years old these days,its hard to remember back that far on many of them
Xertog 19:42:13 pm CST
I purchased all the gorean books I own on ebay about 8 years ago.
Krogon 19:43:29 pm CST
the cover art on the original books is becoming collectable, the new reprints are rather bland
stormy{Xg~L} 19:44:04 pm CST
They sell most on Amazon , they look to have a new cover and everything , same as Prize of Gor which stormy recently purchased there , many of them like Beast and Blood Brothers are hard to come by however
Xertog 19:44:06 pm CST
Alias sellers on ebay have ratings. You can normally tell the good ones from the questionable ones.
Alias 19:44:26 pm CST
How much were they, Xertog? I'm missing most of the recently published books. And some
from the '80s.
bubbles{GS} 19:45:24 pm CST
galah thinks ebay rocks, but just gotta be careful and look at feedback and know that they have been selling for a very long time, not trusting of new ones sometimes for they have no feedback so you just don't know
Ramses 19:48:08 pm CST
it sounds as though the book discussion is a go?
nasreen{TH} 19:49:25 pm CST
she does not wish to put words into her Master's mouth ...however she does believe He would be interested..
Jarl Thorrn 19:50:42 pm CST
Alias
in general ebay-sellers are trustable, especially when it is for small price things like used books etc
of cause, there always can be a foul apple in the barrel but i saved more on reduced prices even when i count the lost items in
i´m more than 10 years in ebay already, only buying things so far
Alias 19:51:57 pm CST
Thanks, maybe I'll give it a try, see how it goes.
Xertog 19:53:05 pm CST
Well I don't know Ramses. I really like to get firm commitments from enough people that will make an effort to do the reading.. We use to do about 50 pages a week. if it is a go which book?
Alias the prices varied. I assume they got lower since they started to be reprinted. Many were $5.00 or less. I think Magicians of Gor was the only high priced book.. I think it was over $40.00... but that was 8 years ago.. things I am sure changed
vina 19:54:01 pm CST
may You could post a request on the Boards and see if Aany are interested...since not all people are here
Krogon 19:54:18 pm CST
about $600 to buy the whole series
Jarl Thorrn 19:55:04 pm CST
At what time would like to do the book discussion, Xertog?
$20 is kind of expensive, hardcover or paperback, Krogon?
Krogon 19:55:46 pm CST
perhaps some members might wish to swap an trade books
Krogon 19:56:10 pm CST
paperback
bubbles{GS} 19:56:34 pm CST
looks like magician and prize are at about $27-$32 is the cheapest and goes up from there
Xertog 19:56:35 pm CST
Krogon I got 25 of the book online for about $300.00 Some in groups some just one.
Krogon 19:56:50 pm CST
same bland cover on every one as well
Krogon 19:57:39 pm CST
thats half price, and again, the older ones with the cover art are more desirable
bubbles{GS} 19:58:02 pm CST
but you can get second hand of some of the others for under $10
Krogon 19:58:45 pm CST
it would pay to shop around
Ramses 19:59:23 pm CST
Monday nights are usually bad for Me
other than that I am generally available
bubbles{GS} 19:59:25 pm CST
oooooohh february sounds good, galah is stuck in sleen hell until then hehehehehheee
Alias 19:59:37 pm CST
Thorrn's in Germany, I think.
Jarl Thorrn 20:00:43 pm CST
Xertog, the time is, as you already will have noticed, always a problem here due to the very different timezone
I can´t do very late nights regularly
Xertog 20:01:31 pm CST
I understand Thorrn.
stormy{Xg~L} 20:02:20 pm CST
What about weekends during the day ? 3-4 pm EST which is about 9 or 10 in Germany if stormy remembers correctly
bubbles{GS} 20:03:57 pm CST
gal thinks that would be the wee early ahns of the morning for her down under?
stormy{Xg~L} 20:04:27 pm CST
stormy is sorry gal , she didnt know you were down under
Krogon 20:04:51 pm CST
a pivitol work,since they lost most of their hold on Gor
Alias 20:05:11 pm CST
Are they printed in the German language, as well?
Jarl Thorrn 20:05:30 pm CST
chuckles
galah and Me are the time problems in here
*winks at her*
bubbles{GS} 20:05:51 pm CST
yes stormy, as is your Mistress too....and thinking Master Zaroud also is down under
Krogon 20:06:10 pm CST
while many customs remained much of the priest kings abilitys to control the planet were lost
bubbles{GS} 20:07:07 pm CST
as long as gals only a time problem and not any other kind of problem heheheee **angelic smile that doesn't fool anyone**
Jarl Thorrn 20:07:30 pm CST
nods to Alias
don´t if all are printed in german but many are on german ebay
But i will prefer to read them in english language to use the same vocabulary and phrases like in this place
don´t think it will take Me far in the discussion or chat to know the german translations for the gorean expressions *L*
bubbles{GS} 20:08:15 pm CST
Priest Kings was the book gal liked the very least of all the ones she has read **scrunches her face** not enough slave action in it heheheheee heheheee
Xertog 20:09:50 pm CST
Krogon how much they may have regained remains speculative as the books never really gets delved into it in the later books. I assume they started rebuilding what they had.
Xertog 20:13:00 pm CST
I hated the ones written in the slaves perspective. Dancers I started twice and never got past page 40.
Jarl Thorrn 20:13:02 pm CST
stormy
your suggestion for the time sounds good to Me
but will a discussion in the EST-afternoon-time also be good for the majority?
stormy{Xg~L} 20:13:55 pm CST
stormy was a bondmaid when she first came to Gor , her heart will always lay in the north and The book was interesting , the tale of Torvald , the way they lived and the carefree ways of a bondmaid compared to that of a silk slave. * smiles* and yes Master the Kur scared her alot
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