Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #82

Still reading the Gor series after a hiatus because I got bored. I generally skip to the end of the paragraph every time the author goes on a digression about the setting and frankly I haven't missed anything. I swear only John Norman could interrupt an action scene or negotiation to muse at length on completely irrelevant worldbuilding details. It's a neat world that would be ideal for a low fantasy RPG campaign desu, but you don't need to go into the exact details of how someone's outfit compares to someone the next town over when the scene is supposed to be introducing the character.

Good to see the MC wises up slightly at the end of Hunters. Only slightly though, he's still thick as a bag of rocks, but at least in the next book he doesn't commit any grievous errors of dumbfrickery.

On that note, I found this hilarious review of one of the books where a sneeds over an account of a woman being kidnapped and forced into intercourse slavery isn't enough, whining about how the author doesn't understand "the submissive POV" even though the MC isn't a sub; she's a slave so her own gratification doesn't enter into it.

There's also this passage:

She's also incredibly uncharitable towards the other slave girls, constantly comparing herself in looks and in behaviour with them, at times resenting them for being more beautiful than she is, sometimes being angry with them for behaving as willing slaves, and other times considering them her close friends. In fact female cattiness and competition is a constant, and incredibly boring, recurring theme of the story, in how she sees both herself and other women. She's constantly bemoaning in her internal monologues how she, a rich and spoiled hot girl back home, could possibly be reduced to this, with the underlying implication being that women are vapid and stupid and need to be controlled to find their actual peace of mind.

as though that's not a completely realistic depiction of women