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Priest-Kings of Gor
- Gorean Saga, Book 3
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
This is the third installment of John Norman's popular and controversial Gor series. Tarl Cabot is the intrepid tarnsman of the planet Gor, a harsh society with a rigid caste system that personifies the most brutal form of Social Darwinism. In this volume, Tarl must search for the truth behind the disappearance of his beautiful wife, Talena. Have the ruthless Priest-Kings destroyed her? Tarl vows to find the answer for himself, journeying to the mountain stronghold of the kings, knowing full well that no one who has dared approach the Priest-Kings has ever returned alive....
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- James
- 10-12-12
MORE GOREAN SAGA PLEASE!!
Well read by Ralph again here, makes a decent book better....Please Audible, more Gor Saga please!!!
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- Nina Shaw
- 25-10-20
Book 3 down 31 to go
I am in love with this saga, I can’t get enough of it. There are some tasteful characters in the book and some that make you want to slap them but then you realise it’s only a character. I enjoyed this book. Onto book 4 now.
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- Ray
- 28-12-18
perfect reading of the book and very enjoyable
a great book and drives the imagination wild, very much recommended to all that follow this series of books
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- Justique
- 21-03-16
gor once again
See my review of the second book. thought this book was just so silly i couldent handle it
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- Peter
- 13-02-15
disappointing
I could only struggled through half, it started going wrong with the tedious minutiae of objects slightly differing from real world objects, going into far more detail than necessary. Then it moves into an hour or so of characters with monotonous and abrasive voices (I appreciate that this was correct though). Worst was the author's portrayal of how women act on gor, and his attempts to rationalise their submissive behaviour. I understand that this is his fantasy, a world he created, but I could not perservere through the rest of this book as I found it rather sickening.
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- Miss Zowie A Mansfield
- 09-01-15
Totally addictive
Every moment left my craving the next. Such an intiguing insight into a what if theory.
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- Craig Walker
- 29-01-13
A challange to the imagination
This is as much as a new experience to the imagination as was the first volume. IN the first we learned the nature of Gor on the surface, both literally and figuratively. Now we get to the inner workings. This volume has a focus on more action and less face and body stripping. Well worth the read, and a focal point of the whole series.
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- Dorian
- 09-02-17
decent but annoying character voice
I hate his robotic voice for the mechanical translators. it was hard to listen to so much of it.
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- Review 2
- 06-05-18
great story preformed well
enjoy loved it reminds me of GOT but diffrent. do you beleive? i do. magic happens
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- Zachary Craft
- 17-10-17
They're Giant Arthropods?!
Priest-Kings of Gor makes an excellent third volume in the Gorean Saga. This particular book in the series is much more sci-fi oriented, with high tech alien battle scenes and alien-created synthetic humans. If you’re like me, you didn’t see the revelation that Priest-Kings were giant arthropods coming. I expected them to be human-like in appearance, which made for quite an interesting twist in the story.
Priest-Kings of Gor picks up right where Outlaw of Gor left off. Tarl Cabot arrives at the foot of the Sardar Mountains, releases his tarn, and enters through the gate that allows access to the domain of the Priest-Kings. Once inside, he’s held captive for some time in a special type of prison cell with a slave girl named Vika. Unbeknownst to Tarl, Vika has been tasked by the Priest-King Sarm to woo him in an effort to convince him to kill the Priest-King’s brother, Misk. Vika fails in her task and Tarl is taken in by Misk, where he learns all about Priest-Kings.
Priest-Kings are a technologically advanced race of large insects that brought Gor to our solar system over two million years ago when their sun began to die. Priest-Kings are primarily concerned with technological advancement, particularly as it relates to increasing their longevity. Ironically enough, this has caused their species to dwindle to less than a thousand. Most Priest-Kings in the Nest on Gor are sexless. There is only one female in the Nest, the Mother, and she has supreme authority. That authority, however, is being usurped by her first-born, the Priest-King Sarm. Sarm wants to prevent new male and female Priest-Kings from being born so that he can maintain his political power in the Nest. Human slaves assist the Priest-Kings in their various tasks and are considered part of the Next, that is, easily dispensable parts. It’s not really revealed why the Priest-Kings have populated Gor with various species. What is explained is that they intentionally limit the humans’ technological advancement out of fear for their own safety.
Misk informs Tarl that he was brought to the nest of the Priest-Kings in a secret conspiracy between himself and the Mother to overthrow Sarm. That’s why his city was destroyed and his people scattered, to keep Sarm in the dark about their true intentions. He wants Tarl’s help finding a female egg that was hidden among the Wagon People. Tarl reluctantly agrees, which Sarm suspects, resulting in a war between the two. The human slaves in the Nest revolt during the confrontation and join Misk’s rebellion against Sarm. Sarm is killed and Gor and the Nest are nearly destroyed in the process. With the Priest-Kings temporarily out of commission, Tarl sets out on a new journey to find the egg among the Wagon People.
John Norman is an excellent science fiction writer and the battle scenes in this book leave nothing to be desired on that front. I was on the edge of my seat throughout much of the story as the plot just kept getting more and more interesting. Norman’s humor really shows when he introduces us to pair of synthetically created twins and details their secret shenanigans within the Nest. The low ratings this series has received are simply unmerited and probably socially/politically motivated. Some people just can’t wrap their heads around the concept of fantasy. I’m looking forward to the next book. I also recommend purchasing the audiobook narrated by Ralph Lister. He does an excellent job narrating the various characters and really makes the story come alive.
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- michael
- 04-03-13
Gorean Saga
The Gorean series is basically Conan the barbarian meets a smut novel on another world. There's lots of violent battles and vicious giant man eaters with a dash BDSM. The series gets a little repetitive as the books go on but not to badly for a 20 plus book series. If you liked the John Carter in 'A Princess of Mars' series most likely you'll enjoy these books there very similar. I prefer the Gorean series myself, except the ones narrated by women which I haven't bought so don't know if there good or not I personal dislike women narrates.
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- Bruce
- 11-08-11
One of my all-time favorite books.
I have always loved this book. It gets 5 stars and I don't give those out very often.
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- Steve Nicholas
- 05-10-22
Priest Kings of Gor.
This is the third book in the Gor series. I've heard references to the books of Gor and thought they were a type of porn. I decided to see what is actually in them and I was pleasantly surprised. There is a slavery part of the politics of Gor but the rest of the story is a sci-fi yarn. The third book is clearly a major sci-fi increase over the first two books with actual aliens running the planet Gor and a complex political system that the hero is being groomed to change by some of these aliens.
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- James Denkhoff
- 05-10-22
Hi
Hi all good book and I liked it from beginning to the end,
and all the others
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- M
- 19-11-21
Into the Sardar
Tarl Cabot enters the realm of the priest-kings, where he finds a hive of creatures that are highly technologically advanced conducting their own personal earthlike experiment on the surface of Gor. The Master/slave dynamics are further reinforced herein as the priest-kings maintain humans as their personal servants.
In this edition, John Norman delves into sci-fi. With many unusual machines and technological advancements, culminating in an all-out hive war that nearly destroys Gor. Quite a fun ride.
Full-disclosure, I read many of the Gor books back in the 1980's, and was quite pleased to see them arrive on Audible. My wife is now listening to them for the first time, having heard of the series before, and is actually enjoying them. This tells me that the age-old series still has some life in it, and my own enjoyment doesn't stem solely from a nostalgic bias.
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- Citlali Nefekalum
- 03-10-21
A wonderful performance!
I have endeavored to reread these books again. but have little time to sit and do so. The audiobook option has proved invaluable to me and Mr. Lister prodices marvelously diverse accents and voices for each of the characters. I was very impressed with how he even added subtle differences in the robotic voices so that you can distinguish them. The book and series are a bit dense in some parts and a bit repetitive in the controversial sexual and gender philosphies, but the underlying adventure of the stories are satisfying in the way junk food is. I absolutely love them. Looking forward to 'reading' the next.