Anybody read Diana Gabaldon Outlander series? Fan-bloody-tastic

[crackpotdog]

highly recommended!! set in scotland in 1700's, love story/action. Just brilliant

[dalek]

I read these a few years ago - loved the first three but couldn't get on with the later ones.

Have you read them all?

PS - I am in love with Jamie Fraser

[ChasingSquirrels]

tried to post on this earlier but computer crashed and then it had disappeared from active convos.
I read the first 3 books years and years ago, and LOVED them, and kept looking for a 4th as they obviously hadn't finished.
Then saw the newest one a while ago when it came out and got it and the one before from the library, I enjoyed them, but nowhere near as much as the first 3. Although whether that was the books or me I don't know.

[Dior]

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[fishie]

ooh yes she has gone quite mad.

i read first three (and ill advised fourth) when ds was wee baby.

[ShrinkingViolet]

which one was the fourth? I remember one went totally off the boil, but then it gets better, and I cried at the end of the last one.....
Don't want to spoil the ending for anyone, but the series does improve .
(Outlander is the US title for the first book btw (Cross Stitch in the UK)- don't think any of the rest of the titles are different though).
I recommended this to my mum's book group (all "church ladies" ) to mixed response - some were irriated by the incorrect geography, some were irritated by the amount of shagging for no particular plot progression. Most have been interested in reading the rest of the series "just to see how it all turns out" .

[scaryteacher]

I love them, am rereading A Breath of Snow and Ashes for the umpteenth time, and I always dip into Voyager when I need cheering up. I want to know who Loaghaire is shagging back in Scotland though.

[JoshandJamie]

read them all and loved them - particularly the first one

[StrangeTown]

Yes, the later ones were hard going, first one a good read though.

[MummyDoIt]

I read them all when and loved them. Lent them to MIL who loved them too (thought I get a bit embarrassed at the thought of her reading the shagging scenes!). I always struggle with Laoghaire's name, though. Can anyone tell me the correct pronunciation?

[StrangeTown]

What actually happens in the end please?
I think I gave up after book number 4?

[scaryteacher]

I think it's pronounced L'heery, or so it says in Cross stitch I think.

[scaryteacher]

Have you seen that there are two new ones out in the series about Lord John Grey? Am about to order them from Amazon.

[Zebedeedoodah]

I loved the first three. Then hated the next one (Cross Stitch I think) and couldn't get past the first chapter. I haven't read any since.