| Outlander | 
 enlarge | Author: Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Delta
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1367 reviews
Sales Rank: 9137
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0385319959
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385319959
ASIN: 0385319959
Publication Date: August 10, 1998
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Condition: Softcover. Some wear to the cover and pages. Some page corners are folded. Has some writing. Slight water damage. Ships the next business day, with tracking and delivery confirmation sent to your email.
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 Simply the best June 11, 2008
I loved reading the book so I thought I'd try the audio version. It was amazing. The narrator does ALL the voices, but it's spectacular! It brings a whole new dimension to one of my favorite stories. I highly recommend giving it a listen!
Never a dull moment!! June 3, 2008
This was a very good book, an outstanding read. The intensity of it never wavered.
I really loved the character Jamie. He is such a likable person. He is handsome, brave and strong, unfaltering in his love and devotion to a woman he perhaps will never truly understand. Claire is also a lovable character,hopelessly torn between two worlds and two loves.
This book was like an enjoyable history lesson. I learned so much from it. It was stimulating edutainment. I highly recommend others to read this novel.
love love love this book May 31, 2008
i'm no fan of time travel romance ,but the minute i read the frist chapter in this book i have fell in love.the charaters in this book will make you fall in love with them.claire is the perfect herorine strong sassy smart.,james is sexy cocky fearless they share a passionate adventure together.
 The first book in the Outlander saga May 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm always intimidated by books that are more than 600 pages. At that point, I start to think to myself that I could read TWO books in the time it would take me to finish this one. But Outlander is one of those books that you really can't call yourself a romance lover unless you've tackled, so I decided to go there over the holiday weekend. And it was a pleasant endeavor. The thing I liked most about Outlander is that I didn't feel that a word in the 850 pages was wasted. It's one thing to read a book that's 600 pages, that would have been better if it had been 400, but Gabaldon seemed to realize the importance of making things count. The relationship between Claire and Jamie is meticulously detailed, the settings are outlined so richly that you can see in your head what's happening, and the emotion is captivated with a voice that I won't forget. This book is a romance staple for a reason--it makes you love the hero and heroine. I fell in love with Jamie a thousand times over the course of this novel, and while Claire made me angry at times, I liked her for loving him, accepting him, and taking care of him. There were so many sigh-worthy moments and times when I had to stop reading just to let a particular piece of the story sink in that reading this book was like drinking a fine wine--I savored it, taking my time, and only continuing when I was ready. That being said, I probably won't read the next books in the series. Outlander was, at times, heart-wrenching, and that's usually not my thing. Seeing a strong man broken is not something that I enjoy, even if he's put back together again, and I don't know that I can do it again. I'd recommend Outlander to anyone who enjoys richly told stories with intricate characters and lots of emotion. However, if you like traditional happy endings, and things that work out perfectly, I don't know that you should risk it.
A Wild Adventure That I Liked Verra Verra Much May 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had seen this book and dismissed it several times before deciding to read it. The time travel aspect turned me off for some reason. But then I realized I read Time Traveler's Wife and didn't dismiss it based on the time travel aspect.
I recently read White Rose Rebel by Janet Paisley, which is set in 1745 in Scotland during the Jacobite uprising so it shares time and place with Outlander. I think some fans of Outlander would probably like that novel as well. White Rose Rebel piqued my curiosity about the Jacobites and that period of history and I wanted to find something else to read on the topic and I kept coming back to Outlander. So, I decided to give it a chance and not hold the time travel part against it but rather to go with it and try to enjoy the story.
Well, I dinna have to try verra hard. I think that Diana Gabaldon is a wonderfully gifted and imaginative writer. This book is so rich with details that I was impressed by page six and that's before anything even happens.
While in Scotland with her husband Claire Randall accidentally travels back in time two hundred years to 1743, two years before the Jacobite uprising, a time when there was considerable friction between the Scottish and English. Claire is clearly English and is forced to navigate the politics of the time in order to survive and try to find a way back to her husband Frank. But events unfold very differently than Claire expects and she falls in love with the beautiful and brave James MacKenzie.
Let me tell you now that I am not a fan of the romance novel, not at all. But this story is so much more than a romance.
Gabaldon has created an engaging heroine in Claire Randall and placed her at a time in history where she can illustrate the stark contrasts between the contemporary and the historical. Claire is a nurse. When she travels back in time there are no medicines, no sterile bandages, no anesthetic, no hospitals, no operating rooms. She is forced to treat her patients using plants and herbs and quite a bit of whisky. Related to this there is a very interesting portion of the book that involves witch trials and Gabaldon creates a convincing story.
I was captivated by the adventure and history as well as the characters and their relationships. I really enjoyed this book even though I could have done with a few less love scenes. Though I thought Diana Gabaldon did the love scenes very nicely. And there were a few times when I thought she pulled the story out a bit too far but still none the less I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Another novel that had read when I was in High School I might have appreciated History before my 34th birthday.
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