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I wouldn't be at all surprised: it makes Barbarian Queen look like The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen by comparison...
(The impression I always get from it was they were trying to pass off early John Norman as an ersatz Flash Gordon, but sadly Oliver Reed is neither BRIAN BLESSED nor Max Von Syndow and they couldn't afford Queen for the soundtrack, so the resulting camp was less magnificent than that on display in De Laurentis's 1980 masterpiece.)
Well they had Jack Palance as an initiate for one of the sequels I think. I can't remember, nothing made any sense... least of all that casting choice.
It makes the "film that made Ben-Hur looks like an epic" look like an epic.
Too, I wonder if the OP has read the books. The books are not like ordinary earth books, which one can easily deny, and put down at will. A true Gorean book commands continuous lectation from the reader, and in keeping with the reader's newly awakened connection with their true selves, inspires compliance not by force alone (though evidence of that force is legion) but by its superior, primal will. Such is the way of Gorean books, and muchly has the reader adapted to the books, rather than the other way round. The reader feels themselves drawn into the books, and their former life reading only earth books, which they could easily deny, and put down at will, seems like something less than a distant memory. Too, it seems that the reader, despite only a short time ago having been used to reading ordinary earth books, which are weak, and which one can easily deny, and put down at will, that such a life of treating books that way now seems unnatural, disgusting even. Suddenly, a reader can have something like an epiphany, and realize that all of their hangups, their issues, perhaps even their mental health had been impacted negatively by reading ordinary earth books, which are weak, and which one can easily deny, and put down at will, that reading such books was a perversion of their natural purpose and state, and that even if they were offered a chance to go back to their old life, of reading earth books which are weak, which are spineless, and which one can easily deny, and put down at will, and closed, and replaced on their bookshelves without a second though, that they would choose to remain reading only Gorean books. Such is the natural way of books, and of readers.
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