Outlander
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In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library. While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before. I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness." Gabaldon creates characters that you'll remember, laugh with, cry with, and cheer for long after you've finished the book. --Candy Paape |
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Outlander Customer Reviews
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You will either love this book or hate it.. I found myself sort of in the middle. I love to read books that have you on the edge of your seat turning pages so fast and never wanting to put it down until its done and you will with Outlander. You may even give up a bit of sleep to do just that.
The story plot is well thought and addictive , but with Ms Gabaldon style of writing I found myself struggling to hang on to the words a lot the time meaning, going back and re reading several times .I would get frustrated trying to grasp what was going on and sometimes I would just give up and maybe get lucky in the next paragraph of what had just actually happened. I also found some things where just too tedious and draw out , "ok I get it , go on, blah blah blah ".. yes , I did skip paragraphs.. Some writers just have the talent to execute their words in a exciting, ongoing comfortable flow , that to me is what makes reading so enjoyable and the ability to really come apart of the story.
Getting back to the story itself . It really just depends on what you are looking for in a book. This was a great story , I think it would have been better if someone else wrote it . I laughed once, don't ask me what it was . It most certainly was not the eyebrow wiggling , blahh!! I wish I had a better description of the main characters in the beginning of the book , like how old they were . That's just important stuff . I had the image that claire was about 34 , well she's not .. I also don't think 1942 world war II nurses had potty mouths of some sleazy 1999 hooker. If they did ,I don't want to read about it. That's just bad taste . The sexual violence in the book was over the top for me , too much pain and suffering .. I found myself thinking "Oh gosh not again." The first time was enough and then you are just in just plain shock.. In the end I found myself feeling sad ,sorry, overwhelmed and just unsatisfied..
I am still contemplating if I want to actually read the the next books out of just addictive curiosity , but I dread what kind of mood the book itself will put me in ..
I hope this was helpful
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