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Outlander - Nas Asas do Tempo marca o início de uma série que tem até à data 7 volumes, sendo que o oitavo tem publicação prevista para o ano de 2013. O primeiro volume já está publicado desde 1991 e finalmente em 2010, a editora Casa das Letras decidiu apresentar aos leitores portugueses a saga Outlander, que conta já com dois volumes publicados.
O primeiro volume fala-nos sobre uma verdadeira viagem no tempo. Estamos em 1945, após a Guerra Mundial e o mundo encontra-se todo ele anestesiado, po ...more

Outlander is a well-written romp of an adventure through time, love, torture and Scotland. But it just went on and on. And apparently it continues for another 5,000 pages because there is a whole series dedicated to these characters and this story. Trust me - one book is plenty. It's even too much. I definitely won't be continuing this series, no matter how eloquently Diana Gabaldon writes. I just don't care to know every minute detail of these characters' lives and backgrounds. They just aren't
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The plot and characterization get 5 stars, but it lost one for being littered with linguistic anachronisms (what highlander in 1743 uses phrases like "lowest common denominator" or calls a priest a padre?) and another due to my squeamishness with where Gabaldon seemed to draw the line between consensual sex and rape in the first half of the book. But then it got one back when the second half was so riveting that I forgot all my issues with the beginning. Seriously, couldn't put it down.
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