Hunters of Gor

I was standing at the Bus Stop yesterday, and saw a thin, 20ish looking, woman standing there reading a book. She had shoulder length black hair,wore a flowered blue slim dress that covered her shoes, and had a Toreador length little green jacket over it.

What really captured my attention was that she was reading "Hunters of Gor". For those of you not familiar with it, "Hunters of Gor" was written by a "C" grade author named John Norman. Well, actually, the stories aren't bad but about every several pages, he launches into a few sentences that reveal his hatred and frustration with women. In his books, about 26 of them, he has created an Earth like world on the other side of the sun from us, where almost all women are naked slaves. He does a pretty good job in describing the Gorean world; with it's huge birds and really nasty, huge reptiles.

There are even on line Gor groups, one of which I tried to join and they were just too weird for me; barking at me as if I were scum right away. Why even the BDSM folk I know felt them too weird.

My own curiosity finally overwhelmed me and I asked her if she was reading that Book for a Literature Class. She said, "No, I just like to read". I did not push it any more, but told her that if she likes that book, my favorite author, David Weber, wrote a really good series called the "Honor Harrington Series" and it has really strong feminine characters. She seemed really interested, and the arrival of my Bus gave me time to make a swift exit. I did not get the chance to ask her if she was a librarian. Muaahhhaaaaa!

Gwendolyn

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