Outlander (Outlander, Book 1)

by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander (Outlander, Book 1)
published
July 26th 2005 (first published 1991) by Dell
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Mass Market Paperback, 896 pages

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United Kingdom

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0440242940   (isbn13: 9780440242949)

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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...more





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Eric
Eric rated it: 1 of 5 stars1 of 5 stars1 of 5 stars1 of 5 stars1 of 5 stars
07/13/07

Read in January, 1997
I gave this book a really awful and visceral yet irreverent review and people got all hurty. Sorry gentle readers. So here's a revised review - still bad, but with fewer sharp corners and internet ugliness. So...

I really disliked this book. As I think about all the ones I've read, this one is at the bottom. I bought it thinking, "Scotland. Time Travel. Awesome." But it was not to be. What did it was the adolescent writing style. Actually it was the interplay between the writing st...more
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Lisa
06/29/07

bookshelves: trashy_trashy
Read in July, 2007
Contains SPOILERS ---
I was lying in a hospital bed with my leg broken, and once the library trolley came for a round of 'books, anyone?', my hand was in the air in no time.
Too late did the librarian notice the foreign literature on my bedside table and with a distraught expression try to recover 'Outlander';I said firmly: 'Oh no, Madam, I'll read that.'. Just enough time left for her to make up with a tome of controversial French literature on the genocide in Ruanda...
But as I'd said: my ...more
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Kirk
Kirk rated it: 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars
06/01/08

bookshelves: sentimental-faves
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Shannon
Shannon rated it: 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
05/27/08

bookshelves: 2007, contemporary-historical-fiction, time-travel
Read in October, 2007
It is 1945 and Claire Randall (nee Beauchamp) is enjoying her second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband Frank, a historian interested in tracing his family tree back to Jonathan Wolverton Randall, a Captain in the English army during the Jacobite period. They've been apart for almost all their 8 years of marriage, she working as a nurse, he working for MI5, during the war.

While exploring the countryside around Inverness she revisits a circle of stones on a hill and is transported back in...more
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Kate
08/04/07

bookshelves: alltimefavourites, reviewed
The genius here is that historical fiction merges with science fiction, to produce a kind of double whammy of the historical.

The novel is set, initially, in 1946 Scotland, where a couple take a second honeymoon after the Second World War. Whilst not a huge presence in the piece, WW2 is something that feeds into the motivations of Claire, the protagonist, and informs the story. Through magic, science, coma, act of God or who knows what else, Claire Randall finds herself in mid eighteenth cent...more
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Eastofoz
bookshelves: books-with-cooties
recommended to Eastofoz by: Everybody and their cousin!
recommends it for: People who enjoy general 1st person fiction, epics, very very light romance
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Carrie
Carrie rated it: 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
08/12/07

bookshelves: favorites
Read in May, 2004
recommends it for: someone who likes anything from historical fiction to romance to time travel to adventure.
I first read this book 3 years ago, and have devoured the 6 books in the series (so far) since. Since it's been a year since the last one came out, and I had recently OD'ed on YA lit, I decided to go back to the first book. I remembered why this is my favorite series. Even though I remembered the larger plot points, and know all the future plot points, I still couldn't put this down on it's second reading. I found myself falling in love with the characters all over again, and since Gabaldon writ...more
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Becky Bodine
Becky rated it: 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
09/21/08

bookshelves: i-own-it
This review was done by Louisa Brown at ww. louisabrown.net. She did an awesome job of reviewing this book and captured every sentiment I could have written. Check out her website and keep reading the Outlander series!

Outlander is the first novel in the continuing Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. This is the story of Claire Randell, a nurse during world war two and a time traveler.
Claire Randell was on a second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband Frank who had just returned from ...more
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Holly
Holly rated it: 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars
09/10/08

bookshelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, stuff-only-women-will-read
Has a copy to sell/swap
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Kym
Kym rated it: 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars
06/03/08

bookshelves: aar-top-100-romances--2007-, historical-romance
Read in May, 2008
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 ...more
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Katchoogranger
bookshelves: fiction
recommends it for: smart women with a thing for time travel
When WWII english nurse Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp is on her Scottish honeymoon with her historian hubby, the last thing she expects is to fall through a stone circle into 1743, get hunted by her present-day husband's perverted ancestor Jack Black Randall, and eventually have to marry a hot, clever Scotsman for protection. Well, we often don't plan for this shit on our vacations, do we?

So, once in 18th century Scotland, Claire tries to get back to modern day husband Frank with no avail. The...more
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Lori
12/28/07

bookshelves: historic-fiction, popular-fiction
Read in January, 1993
I read this ages ago! This is the first in the Outlander series detailing the epic of Claire and Jamie Fraser. These are two of my favorite fictional characters of all time. Claire is an English nurse, just back from WWII, and she and her husband take a trip to Scotland. Claire visits a circle of standing stones, and the next thing she knows she's in 1740s Scotland! Of course it takes her a while to figure out that she hasn't stumbled onto some sort of reenactment. She is "rescued&quo...more
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Kathleen
Read in August, 2008
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Joy
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02/27/08

bookshelves: historic-fiction, sci-fi--fantasy
Read in March, 2008
recommended to Joy by: me
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Whitelady3
bookshelves: not-own
Read in December, 2007
I don't really know what I was expecting when I picked this book up, but it turned out to be a pleasant reading.

We follow the story from Claire's point of view, who has traveled back in time, until the 18th century to be exact, finding herself caught in a fight between the Scottish clans and the military forces of England. Here, she must adapt herself to this world, using her healing gifts to gain the trust of the people, who feel threaten by her for being English, possibly a spy. Gradually,...more