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Outlander (Outlander, #1)

Diana Gabaldon

Start date: October 1, 2016

Finish date: December 31, 2016

Discussion: Outlander - Oct-Dec 2016

Why we're reading this: Winner of the October-December 2016 Big Read Poll
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Outlander - Oct-Dec 2016

Outlander - General Discussion
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Nov 25, 2016 Matthew rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016, library, historical-fiction

This was a tough one to rate. Of the 630 pages, about 200 of them were not great, weird, too much, 1 to 2 stars. A couple of times I wondered why I was still reading and didn't want to go on.

But, the other 430 were very interesting and well written. The premise of the story is fascinating and left me pondering a lot of what ifs?. It was very deeply researched historical fiction and I am a fan of decent historical fiction. If the 200 pages or so that I didn't care for were edited out or abbreviat ...more

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Mar 10, 2015 RachelvlehcaR rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction, romance, kindle, 01-buddy-reads, 04-series-to-read-or-read, kindle-unlimited

Rereading this so that I can finish up the series. It's been 1995 since the last time I read this. Need to freshen up on it. It's kind of interesting what I remember versus what I don't remember from this book.

This first time I read this back in 1995, I loved this book. I was also 18 at the time. I heard my mother and her friend talking about it and the series, which at the time was just the first three books of the series. I was only 17 at the time. I grabbed her copy and started to read it. I ...more

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Aug 21, 2016 Christine PNW rated it it was amazing

Reread!

Jamie and Claire are always amazing.

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$ally ¯\(ツ)/¯$

Sep 09, 2014 ally ¯\(ツ)/¯ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2014, historical-fiction

I have some serious love/hate feels for this book...

On the one hand, you can't deny it's well written (although at times it can't be a bit of a snoozefest). On the other hand there's some situations that some more sensitive readers might find disgusting/repulsive/offensive.

I'm not an easily offended person and when I read (especially historical fiction) I try to place myself in that characters time/era. That said, I don't condone abuse, however I do realize women having very few rights is a fact ...more

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