I've been diving into the sword and sorcery genre lately. I just finished up The Sundered Realm by Robert E. Vardeman and Victor Milán, published by Playboy of all things. Although I suppose that tracks with the raunchy bedding of wenches that go along with our protagonists quest to hunt down some mythical amulet to gain himself immortality. It's been a nice easy read but had me constantly looking up vocabulary which is something I haven't had to do in close to twenty years.

Before that I was reading Tarnsman of Gor. Stumbled across that one while browsing the Dark Sun subreddit. Looked it up and discovered that it's an infamous series that pisses of all the right people with its portrayals of women and dove right in. Definitely not the best writing I've encountered but decent enough and the world building itself is actually pretty good. Our hero gets whisked away to a second earth that is eternally hidden on the other side of the sun and gets a crash course in being a barbarian warrior and then sent out to steal another town's high treasure. Adventure and sexy slave girls follow. Honestly it's kind of timid compared to what makes the rounds these days and the misogyny is way overpromised and underdelivered, but it definitely caters to a male centric understanding of how the world works, which is a welcome relief in this modern hellscape we live in.