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Post by Calenture on Jul 26, 2010 19:15:07 GMT
andy, on the contrary, i think he is being deadly honest about what constitutes sex for him. is it shameful of me to confess that the more i'm reading of this thread, the more i'm dying to get started? Going by their lyrics, i think these fine fellows already have! Manowar - Pleasure Slave (from Kings of Metal, 1988) She is waiting to kiss my hand But she will wait for my command My chains and collar brought her to her knees She now is free to please.
Woman, be my slave That's your reason to live Woman, be my slave The greatest gift I can give Woman, be my slave
Before her surrender she had no life Now she's a slave, not a wife Her only sorrow is for women who live with lies She's taken off her disguise.
Your body belongs to me
Woman, come here Remove your garments Kneel before me Please me
Woman, be my slave That's your reason to live Woman, be my slave The greatest gift I can give Woman, be my slave i know the bride of demonik has a number of metal albums stashed away some place and if i find this among them i will tease and torment her within an inch of her life! You could always attempt to work things around to 'slave' of demonic and see how far that gets. Start with simple things like 'Slave, get me a cup of tea immediately' and 'Do the dishes for I am tired - later I may require cans of special brew...' Guaranteed to go down a storm with the partner. I have to say though that if you're caught in those kind of outfits there may be a marginal loss of street cred. Bloody 'ell, a chap turns his back for five minutes and look what happens to his Sarban thread!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 26, 2010 20:29:42 GMT
Bloody 'ell, a chap turns his back for five minutes and look what happens to his Sarban thread! Sorry Rog - I very much suspect I'm to blame, but I've paid the price. We've had the joy of listening to Dem's Manowar song this evening courtesy of YouTube and a Lady P keen to see what those lyrics might be like set to "music". Let's try and get it back on track with: The Sound of His Horn Review Part 2"...they made me strip off the clothes the doctor had lent me and put on a strange costume which they took from a store which seemed well furnished with similar outfits" To be fair, far from intending a bit of pervery, this bit of dressing up is in fact to prepare our hero for the Hounds of Zaroff / Most Dangerous Game second half of this novella. Alan gets dressed up as deer, meets the 'game-girl' who was dressed as a bird but escaped, and together they enjoy a bit of...well he gets to admire her a lot if nothing else, before the action packed climax which is actually bloody good, with utter carnage amongst the sexy cat women before with one mighty bound our hero is free! In retrospect this was a fast, fun and snappy read,with an almost Machenesque interlude in the middle when our lovers for a day and a night commune with nature and forget that there's a huge power-mad Nazi count with baboon-boys and vicious dogs coming to get them. More Sarban soon, I think. No idea if there are any more paperbacks of his work - I'm cheating and working from my hardcovers, but if Mr D doesn't mind I might press on anyway.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 26, 2010 21:38:39 GMT
No idea if there are any more paperbacks of his work - I'm cheating and working from my hardcovers, but if Mr D doesn't mind I might press on anyway. mind? Hell, no. why would i? whatever comes to hand! There are a couple of late '50's/ early '60's Ballantine paperbacks - The Doll Maker (see previous page) and Ringstones, both of which have gorgeous cover paintings. Ringstones is the short story collection and includes A Christmas Story, Capra, Calmahain, The Khan and Ringstones. Perhaps Monker can also help us with that one? apologies for dragging Manowar into it Rog, but you know how mere mention of John Norman and his Gor's brings on one of my turns - wait until i've actually read him.
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Post by killercrab on Jul 26, 2010 23:52:33 GMT
is it shameful of me to confess that the more i'm reading of this thread, the more i'm dying to get started? >>
Gotta admit I had the opposite reaction - sounds dreadfully tedious ! LOL
KC
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Post by marksamuels on Jul 27, 2010 0:11:52 GMT
andy, on the contrary, i think he is being deadly honest about what constitutes sex for him. is it shameful of me to confess that the more i'm reading of this thread, the more i'm dying to get started? Going by their lyrics, i think these fine fellows already have! Manowar - Pleasure Slave (from Kings of Metal, 1988) She is waiting to kiss my hand But she will wait for my command My chains and collar brought her to her knees She now is free to please.
Woman, be my slave That's your reason to live Woman, be my slave The greatest gift I can give Woman, be my slave
Before her surrender she had no life Now she's a slave, not a wife Her only sorrow is for women who live with lies She's taken off her disguise.
Your body belongs to me
Woman, come here Remove your garments Kneel before me Please me
Woman, be my slave That's your reason to live Woman, be my slave The greatest gift I can give Woman, be my slave i know the bride of demonik has a number of metal albums stashed away some place and if i find this among them i will tease and torment her within an inch of her life! This is one of Richard Staines all-time fav tracks. Oddly enough I saw Manowar back in 85 (I think it was), at the Hammersmith Odeon. Before their, ahem, mega-stardom, they did quite a few gigs in England. During the concert they were quite complimentary about Blighty, and how the English fan-base was what kept them going. Then they played "Hail to England". Happy days. Anyway, anyone up for some Stryper? Mark S.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 27, 2010 7:55:16 GMT
I suspect these are all on here somewhere. Sphere 1969 Ballantine 1960 Ballantine 1960 Uninspired Peter Davies dust jacket 1953
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 27, 2010 9:37:29 GMT
They're all in paperback,John, I believe, Ballantine editions? And for the extra keen there is a The Sarban Omnibus available on POD,
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Post by Calenture on Jul 27, 2010 19:19:06 GMT
Bloody 'ell, a chap turns his back for five minutes and look what happens to his Sarban thread! Sorry Rog - I very much suspect I'm to blame, but I've paid the price. We've had the joy of listening to Dem's Manowar song this evening courtesy of YouTube and a Lady P keen to see what those lyrics might be like set to "music". Best laugh I've had for a while, Lord P. Dem, those Manowar lyrics remind me of an old Fry and Laurie sketch! Not sure which is the funnier, though... Fry, Laurie or Manowar...
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Post by Thana Niveau on Jul 28, 2010 6:29:41 GMT
I just want to echo His Lordship and say what an unexpected delight this one was. And in the grand tradition of SF/fantasy writers using other worlds to explore their kinks, I suspect there's more to Sarban's "hunt" than we see on the surface. There's an almost fetishistic attention to every detail of the animal costumes which goes beyond simple aesthetic admiration of how nice a lady would look in a tight-fitting catsuit. And given the promise of ponyplay in tonight's Book at Bedtime - The King of the Lake - I can't help but wonder if our Mr Wall was into petplay or perhaps he was even a "furry" himself. I hate to compare him with John Norman (who I think has probably never been with a real woman) but there's definitely some similarity of kinky world-building there. However, while Norman's Gor books are a platform for his kooky propaganda, Sarban's story seems like an enthusiast's playful exploration of a not-so-private-once-you-publish-it fantasy. Who knows? Anyway, I'm really looking forward to more of his work!
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Post by David A. Riley on Jul 28, 2010 7:22:10 GMT
"I hate to compare him with John Norman (who I think has probably never been with a real woman)" Like most of his fans, I'd imagine.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 31, 2010 20:04:12 GMT
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 31, 2010 20:08:15 GMT
As fans of Christopher Lee and "queasily curious" about Manowar we've already visited the links! Thanks Dr S!
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Devils Coach Horse
We who walk here walk alone.
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Post by Thana Niveau on Jul 31, 2010 20:16:08 GMT
The world is so much stranger than we can ever contemplate. I think that says it all.
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Post by cw67q on Aug 1, 2010 8:12:12 GMT
Sarban easily makes it into my top three or four genre writers, the Doll Maker is my favourite supernatural novel, with Ringstones almost as good and the various novellas included with the original publications or unearthed by Tartarus press in recent years are almost universally brilliant. "Number Fourteen" (one of the Tartarus unearthees) is one of the most sinister tales I've ever read. All that said, I really don't care for Sarban's most famous book "the Sound of His Horn". Much of Sarban's work deals with themes of domination and submission, but these issues are generally much more subtly handled than in tSoHH where he really rubs them in the readers face (so to speak) to the cost of plot, character and atmosphere. The concern evoked in the reader for the protagonists of the Doll Maker, Ringstones and e.g. the King of the Lake (another piece with very strong submission/dominance images, but very deftly handled) is entirely absent in tSoHH robbing it of all pognancy, reducing it to the level of a semi(?)-pornographic cartoon. That's how I remember it anyway, it is the only Sarban story, with the exception of the slight "A House of Call" that I have not returned to for at least a second read. The Sphere pbs are excellent but unfortunately Ringstones and Doll MAker only include the long title story, dropping the other tales. There is a PoD edition currently available that combines all three novels (Ringstones, Doll Maker, the Sound of His Horn). You can check it out here: www.amazon.co.uk/Sarban-Omnibus-Ringstones-Sound-Maker/dp/1596545526/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280650259&sr=1-1I recommend that you don't start with tSoHH :-) - chris
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Post by jonathan122 on May 18, 2011 14:02:41 GMT
"Number Fourteen" (one of the Tartarus unearthees) is one of the most sinister tales I've ever read. I read this story last night, and the ending is indeed incredibly creepy.
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