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Tal Goreans,
Nomads for a good many reasons is my favorite single novel of the series and for many good reason I suppose at least by my point of view. I am the old cowboy type, when I was a kid I road a horse everywhere, all the other kids had bikes and motorcycles, I had old Nagsley, his name was actually Charlie, but everyone be they human or critter have always earned a nic name if they touched my heart. That horse and I were one body and one mind when we were together. I've been waiting to pose this post since the girls are going over this book in another thread, I didn't want to get to far ahead of them and ruin the mysteries in my favorite book.
I grew up on a farm that had 300 acres of timber pasture and 250 acres of crop ground. It was a world of adventure for a boy with an imagination, hell even if you didn't have one. There was 250 stock cows and a good number of other assorted critters around. But most importantly there was Charlie. Damn I miss that horse. You know, the horse is man's most noble companion. That horse in the winter time, had been caught actually herding the cattle to the barnyard by himself. We only assume he had put together the cattle in the barnyard with being fed hay. (grinz) Pain in the ass horse. I sure do miss that horse.Well as you can imagine I love livestock of all types, to this day I surround myself with that life. And as crazy as it may sound to some of you, I even love the smell of freshly turned soil. To lay on the fresly bailed round bails of hay in the middle of the night and stare up at the stars and wonder. No not about Gor either.
So as you might imagine I indentify with the Wagons People and more importantly I love the whole, I have a plan thing. I had finally read this book a couple summers ago and my slave girl at the time was in the garden playing in the dirt as I sat in a yard chair and read, I got to a point in the book and upon reading I just broke out laughing. a good sound laughing too. My slave looked up from her duties and laughed, "I knew you would love Harold, master." I looked at her and nodded. I haven't had another laugh like that in any of the books.
I am often asked why I released my slave and made her my free companion. This book surely wasn't the main or even the only reason, but it's philosophies as I seen them had a big impact it as I grew as a Gorean. But, that's a much to long of a story. I had from the first time I read the novels obviously indentified as a warrior. Most importantly because I actually had been one. I am obviously no longer in the service, but I found that I indentified even more closely with the idea I was a man first and then a warrior, a man that loves nature and the animals that roam the fields of my home, the heartland. I prefer a hand full of soil to that of a bag full of gold. I would share my last drink of water with my horse. I love the insolence and devotion of a well seasoned slave girl and the love I share with my free companion.
I put a great deal of thought into my life at the time I released the girl that had and has served me very, very well. I would have to say I had to come to an understanding of why Kamchak would have freed his pretty Aphris, versus the fact that Tarl freed all the kajira he took a notion too. I had to understand why a man like Kamchak would release a treasure he had saught after so patiently, where he worked out such a superior plan to get her to begin with. It was obvious that she was in fact his love slave. He knew it, and soon enough she knew it. Yet he had his reasons that as a Gorean man were his own, it wasn't that he needed a Ubara to stand at his side, a man needs nothing of the kind. The details of his choive were his own and that's all that mattered. I'm good with that. Like him, I have my reasons and their my own. Sure, I could answer for my reasons, I could give you all the reasons that work for me. And that's expactly it. It works for me, it brought peace and a great deal of happiness to me. If I told my Natalie to kneel for my collar right this second, I know the result. That's good enough for me all by itself, but there is so much more. Again those reasons belong to this man.
Beyond that how could you ever not endear yourself to the solemn loyalty to his people that was in the heart of Harold, the steady confidance of his pursuit of Hereena. He knew all along he was going to secure her as his wench and knew that this sassy vixen was to be nothing to him but that perfect love slave.
This book had all the depth of a well thought out adventure. I found I had trouble putting this book down. There was suspense and mystery, passion and commradary. I may fancy the Marshall Three, but I will always now that do to the reason above and so many others for me that this book is where my Gorean experience get's the spark that brings it to life.
Now I'm not sure if I was supposed to turn this favorite book thread into an explanation why, but it seemed important to say more than I like this book and leave it at that. Where's the shared experience in that. Most of us here claim these books and the philosophies contained have changed our lives, it seemed important to bare a bit of my soul to atest to the significance of that alone. Those of you that read my posts around here can't say you don't know anything about the ole' Bull around here. (smirks) But, I didn't want to expose to much detail about the book as it seems some of the girls are reading it now, therefore I also drug my feet a bit writing this.
So which is my favorite book, Nomads I say. Not only did I just have fun reading this book, which was most likely Norman's intent; but, it more than the others touches my life and has given me reasons to alter my views on certain things of great importance. A Gorean man can have "love" and passion for a great many things, even women. Maybe most importantly women.
Live well friends,
Serve well girls,
Bull
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