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The Man from O. R. G. Y.
Paperback original. Adult fiction: The Man from O.R.G.Y.
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First published January 1, 1965
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April 21, 2015
Read in May 1966.
While continuing his sex studies, Victor walks a path from Damascus through Baghdad and Calcutta to Tokyo and along the way gets involved with the theft of Soviet nuclear secrets by the Chinese and the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev.
While continuing his sex studies, Victor walks a path from Damascus through Baghdad and Calcutta to Tokyo and along the way gets involved with the theft of Soviet nuclear secrets by the Chinese and the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev.
April 24, 2012
Back in the early, early days of eBay, you could magically go to the local thrift shop and pick up some old jackoff books like this and resell them for a tidy profit as collectibles. I probably sold about a dozen Ted Mark books, but only read this first one. It was marketed to look like it was a slightly more sexualized version of the Man from UNCLE, but inside it was about a sexual anthropologist (?). There was a scene in which someone of undeterminate gender was doing something under a table, and it was a person who was clearly underage. I was done with that nonsense as of that very page. Be warned.
December 18, 2014
This isn't as fun as you think it will be. The premise is that a sex researcher uses his cover of studying sexual practices around the world to spy for the U.S. The book is confusing at times and uses a bunch of tropes. It also commits the sins of using "suddenly" and "all hell broke loose" multiple times. The purple prose in it is unintentionally funny, sometimes describing a woman's nipples as "flaming buds."
There's also more than a bit of racism in the book toward Arabs and Asians, and the claim that female clitoral circumcision is good for sex workers. Two stars for the goofy purple prose, but that's it.
There's also more than a bit of racism in the book toward Arabs and Asians, and the claim that female clitoral circumcision is good for sex workers. Two stars for the goofy purple prose, but that's it.
September 5, 2021
Book vendor tore off covers of paperback books to give store credit for unsold product. Employees got to take the books, which is how I came to read the series. I do not recall much about it, but I am sure I got an education on sexual terms and practices that I never knew.
November 8, 2022
This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 3.0 of 5
I learned about this book (and the subsequent series) while reading another book about spy fiction. It is colloquially referred to as 'sleaze fiction' which I think is a poor moniker as it greatly limits the number of people who might ordinarily read it. The author, Ted Mark, has more than 20 books published (sixteen alone in the O.R.G.Y. series that I have been able to uncover) and this series was re-published by a different publisher after Lancer Books went out of business. Publishers don't typically take many risks when publishing books, especially not re-publishing a series unless they can see a profit in it, so let's not be too quick to discount this book, and this series.
Steve Victor is a sex expert. He's got a degree from a famous university to prove it. And Victor knows that the best way to fund further stud-y is to apply for grants. But the best grants don't fund individuals, so Steve Victor started his research organization known as "O.R.G.Y." He won't say what the acronym stands for since it tends to raise eyebrows.
Steve Victor is also a spy, and he's not one to get caught with his pants down ... well, actually he does tend to get caught with his pants down. In this first adventure, Victor is walking a path from Damascus to Baghdad and Calcutta to Tokyo. He gets involved with a plot by the Chinese to steal nuclear plans from the Russians. He can probably save the world, but he can definitely try to pick up some new sex experiences along the way.
This book is a fun flip on the James Bond series. Where Bond is a spy first and has a number of sexual liaisons during his adventures, Victor is first a sexual explorer who does a little spying along way. This is a shining example of the confrontation of the 1960's-70's morals, where the 'free love' movement meets with the 'establishment.' I can see this being popular to readers of the era.
The plot was just a little bit thin and the sex was slightly more descriptive than I was expecting - but only slightly more. There is, of course, a great deal of tongue-in-cheek humor throughout as well (this satire along the lines of Catch-22).
I enjoyed this enough to read more in this series.
Looking for a good book? The Man From O.R.G.Y. by Ted Mark is a fun satire of spy novels ala James Bond, with just a little more descriptive sex between the covers.
I learned about this book (and the subsequent series) while reading another book about spy fiction. It is colloquially referred to as 'sleaze fiction' which I think is a poor moniker as it greatly limits the number of people who might ordinarily read it. The author, Ted Mark, has more than 20 books published (sixteen alone in the O.R.G.Y. series that I have been able to uncover) and this series was re-published by a different publisher after Lancer Books went out of business. Publishers don't typically take many risks when publishing books, especially not re-publishing a series unless they can see a profit in it, so let's not be too quick to discount this book, and this series.
Steve Victor is a sex expert. He's got a degree from a famous university to prove it. And Victor knows that the best way to fund further stud-y is to apply for grants. But the best grants don't fund individuals, so Steve Victor started his research organization known as "O.R.G.Y." He won't say what the acronym stands for since it tends to raise eyebrows.
Steve Victor is also a spy, and he's not one to get caught with his pants down ... well, actually he does tend to get caught with his pants down. In this first adventure, Victor is walking a path from Damascus to Baghdad and Calcutta to Tokyo. He gets involved with a plot by the Chinese to steal nuclear plans from the Russians. He can probably save the world, but he can definitely try to pick up some new sex experiences along the way.
This book is a fun flip on the James Bond series. Where Bond is a spy first and has a number of sexual liaisons during his adventures, Victor is first a sexual explorer who does a little spying along way. This is a shining example of the confrontation of the 1960's-70's morals, where the 'free love' movement meets with the 'establishment.' I can see this being popular to readers of the era.
The plot was just a little bit thin and the sex was slightly more descriptive than I was expecting - but only slightly more. There is, of course, a great deal of tongue-in-cheek humor throughout as well (this satire along the lines of Catch-22).
I enjoyed this enough to read more in this series.
Looking for a good book? The Man From O.R.G.Y. by Ted Mark is a fun satire of spy novels ala James Bond, with just a little more descriptive sex between the covers.
July 9, 2016
I'm working my way through this series, as well as many other '60s spy and private eye series. Ted Mark (T. Gottfried) continued to write these books through the '70s and into the early '80s. I spent a few years accumulating them and have 34 novels plus his short story collection "The Ted Mark Reader". Some of his books are not even listed on Goodreads, and I'll make an effort to list them as I get around to it. I really like his style, even if some of it comes off as stilted or even offensive by today's standards.
June 14, 2009
I can't remember how many of these I read.
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