Outlander

Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon

Outlander
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Author: Diana Gabaldon
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-07-01
ISBN: 0440212561
Number of pages: 850
Publisher: Dell
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Book Review: I loved it and hated it
Summary: 1 Stars

There were lots of things I loved about this book. It was throughly researched, which I have a soft heart for. When I read a historical, I expect it to be full of details that are not only true but ripe with excitement. THis has this in abundance. Ms. G did a wonderful job of researching that here.




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There was a ton of stuff that just killed it for me. Jaime hitting Claire, Jamien being sexually abused by a sadistic guy to the extent that Cjaire has to drug herself and him and let Jaime think that he is raping Randall to actually give himself the will to live again. The end of the book and Claires decision was completly OOC and it pissed me off greatly that when he gives her the choice for them to find some place to live peacefully, she decides to endanger herself, him, and the child she's treid so hard to have for her entire life in a war for a country that would rather see both of them dead.
BOOK 2 SPOILERS
Then there's the beginning of the next book. We discover that Clarie has returned to the future, spent nearly 20 years there witout ever trying to go bakc or figure out what happened to him. Her daughter is a brat, and it felt like the only reason she had this happen was so she could use the daughter and not have to deal with writing a child who wasn't grown up and making her own decisions into the story. Add in that, while I could completly relate to 27 year old Claire, it was imposible to relate to her at 50, and it was imposible to relate to her daughter.




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All of this lead me to regret buying the entire series. As a matter of fact I tell my friends not to bother reading it and if they do, to read at their own peril. I wanted to rate this a three because there were tons of parts that I loved about this book. It was well written, and if she wrote anything else, i'd give it a try. And hope for no terrible yet well written plot twists. But I just couldn't get over so many aspects of what happened.

It's a sad thing when you get 600 pages into an 800 page book and realize that while you love it there's just too much stuff that is turning you off. And it really is a shame because you gotta finish it because there's so much invested in it, and you keep hoping she'll somehow redeem herself, but she doesn't.

Summary of Outlander

Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.


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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