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I like the Outlander books, as long as i can skim over the Claire and Jamie's daughter subplots.
I would like Kate Winslet to play younger Claire and Emma Thompson to play older Claire, please. No idea for Jamie.
Lord John wasn't a rapist, but rather hopelessly in the Big Gay Lurve with Jamie -- impossible, as Jamie was raped by Claire's modern husband's ancestor, and rather desperately in love with Claire.
Lord John is gay. The rapist you are thinking of is Black Jack Randall, Claire's husband's ancestor. Lord John was the warden or governor or whatevs of the prison Jamie was in for years. I believe they played chess. John had an unrequited crush on Jamie, and eventually they developed a kind of friendship. John ends up raising Jamie's son. Don't ask me exactly how that happened, don't remember.
Yeah, I'd check out a tv show of Outlander. I've read all of the ones out, I think. Not sure.
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ah, thanks for the corrections! It's been a long time since I read them.
I haven't read the last two. I had already lost interest when there were multiple chances to deal with the Villian (whose name I'm forgetting, but he ends up being a bit of a stalker.
The last one I read was before the Revolutionary War started. It honestly felt like an ending to the series. And then I meant to read the others, but kept losing interest. Then Gabaldon was very vocally against fanfiction and then I just decided I wasn't going to put more effort into finishing the series.
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I officially love The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. I liked it from the beginning, but after the fifth book I like it more than any YA fantasy series I've read other than the big HP. I actually think I like it more than The Chronicles of Prydain, and that's some serious childhood memory it's beating to get there.
I read the first two, maybe three, but then I got bored with them. I remember there were some parts that I liked, but as a whole, they just didn't hold my interest.
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I read the first two, maybe three, but then I got bored with them.
I don't totally disagree with you - I enjoyed the first three but wasn't all "must read more!". Then I got the next two from the library to read this week and for some reason, they grabbed me much more than they did the first time around. I think because the series is doing more interesting things with the twin characters in the later books - spending some more time on moral quandaries and character development, aiming a little older (like later HP books, to some extent.) Plus, the whole story is simply becoming much more epic. The completeness of the world-building is starting to feel less like Percy Jackson and more like a baby Game of Thrones!
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