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ORIGINAL: Ravin
..."is anyone able to write "Gor" books or do You feel its Normans right only"...

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ORIGINAL: Karynn
I've heard rumors through the years that Norman did not write all of any of the books but used the books as a part of his overall teaching process and graduate students worked within the vein of thought he began and helps write whole sections of some of the books. Would that then mean at some point those students could take some parts they'd contributed and do a spin-off series (like Joey had his own series after Friends went off the air.)

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance

I found the books repetitive and after the first few, boring because of it.

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ORIGINAL: Anarrus

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance

I found the books repetitive and after the first few, boring because of it.

Isn't it just possible that perhaps all the repetitivness that's prevalent in the books is there and used as a literary device (although agreeably a mundane one) for driving particular points home?
That's the way I see many of them, repeated for reason as if JN is saying by doing so " think about this, it's important, mull it over in your mind and examine why I'm repeating myself so much and maybe you'll learn something"
Certainly JN was and is an intelligent enough man to write without repeating himself so much. So in my opinion he must have done it with a greater purpose in mind.

Be well

Anarrus

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance: As a work of fiction and recreational reading, I found them boring.

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ORIGINAL: Sepharus

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ORIGINAL: Karynn
I've heard rumors through the years that Norman did not write all of any of the books but used the books as a part of his overall teaching process and graduate students worked within the vein of thought he began and helps write whole sections of some of the books. Would that then mean at some point those students could take some parts they'd contributed and do a spin-off series (like Joey had his own series after Friends went off the air.)

Reguardless of persistant rumor, The books are credited to John Norman and are as such his intellectual property. Shy of one such "student" showing proof, most likely in the course of a lawsuit, that isnt likely to change. I would be hard pressed to believe that when Mr Norman was moving a new book a year that any student responsible would not have stepped up and cried plagarism.

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Greetings All:

For those who do not know, any time a student  that is registered in a class writes a paper for or to that instructor it becomes his property.  The students gives up all rights to it.  The Instructor can use it in a theises or whatever he choses.  By law,-- or so she was informed by the Dean of her college when questioned -- they become the property of the college and are awarded to that instructor for his own use, during the time he is teaching at that educational institute.  When he leaves he leaves all the paper he was given by the prior students.   So there are and an be no copyrite infrigement  by an instructor using students ideas. 

Now if a student writes a paper for another class or for his own personal use and allows the instructor to read it and he keeps it and uses the idea or parts of that writing then he has plagarized or stole from the student. 

She hopes this clears this up she has not done a legality check on this just went by what the Dean, instructors and others have said at her college and another one she talked with. 

peace be to all

patina 




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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance

I don't know if another could write the Gor books or not (aside from the copy right legalities).  I do think they could have been written better.  I found the books repetitive and after the first few, boring because of it.

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If someone started a different series with similar erotic situations, but with more diversity and skill.  I would very likely buy the set.