Thorgard

Should be required reading for every High School

Revisado: 01-08-19

This audiobook while somewhat dry while listening to, is well worth your time. It truly deipicts the remarkable incidents and indomitable human spirit that brought this great nation through the pains of its birth. In this era where lesser men think themselves brilliant intellectuals by quibbling over the minutiae of our founding fathers minor failings, this book stands and stark contrast showing the actions, not words, of greater men. It should be required reading for every high school student in this great nation, and it should be read again by every man during his basic training in our military.

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AN OUTSTANDING READ

Revisado: 12-10-18

I do not really understand much of the criticism of this book, or for that matter the series in general. I noted one review before reading this book where the reviewer claimed that the main character wihined incessantly about being a kajira. I found this to be untrue. Quite the contrary, on the whole the main character (Ellen) loved being kajir, and stated so on several occasions. Similarly, a couple of reviewers have claimed that the book contributes very little to the overall meta-story of the series. Again, I find this untrue. While the book does not contain many of the hard-hitting action scenes as one might expect from one of the books featuring Tarl Cabot, it is not written from that perspective. Indeed this book addresses the meta-story from the perspective of someone who is not necessarily a direct actor but an outside observer of the events occurring in the meta-story. As such, one should expect that this book would be more limited in that resgard. This book does an excellent job at providing background as to how others, specifically the men of of Ar, are reacting to the sequence of events occurring in the meta-story, and providing a rich view of life on Gor in general.

The true value of this book, however, lies in its social criticism. The author makes some very frank observations of the culture in the United States specifically, and Western culture as a whole. Within these observations the author provides some very compelling arguments against, and criticisms of, political correctness, the current state of gender relations, our over-reliance on technology applied for the wrong reasons, freedom, freedom of speech and thought, our lack of regard to our relationship with nature, the dying concept of Honor, and even our lack of regard for the truths of biology.

Do not be fooled by the standard, ubiquitous , cookie cutter criticisms and often incorrect assertions of many of the reviews which are clearly made by social justice warriors attempting to suppress the author's views, while promoting an ideology of political correctness. Many of them clearly have not even bothered to read the book. When read from the point of view of its social criticism this book is an outstanding read, exposing many truths that we may not be comfortable with, and often in our current society dare not speak. Whether you agree with the authors views or not, this book is an excellent way to seek some very salient truths regarding our society. However, as the author states in the book; "There is a danger in seeking the truth, you might find it."

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A Good Book

Revisado: 11-08-18

A good book, but not one of his best. Still . . . It is well worth reading. It well advances the meta-story. I would easily recommend it .

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