Yes, there are some moments of titillating sexuality and some less than pleasurable sex scenarios, but you do find that it is hard to stop reading once you started.ĥ0 Shades was not so much a cannot put it down book, as it was more disappointment that a woman could and would subjugate herself to a man in our modern age. It is just pure intriguing pleasure of the mind. Outlander is the kind of book that keeps you guessing what is going to happen next but changes just when you think you figured it out. Now as far as my opinion goes, I personally prefer Outlander books to 50 Shades. I have read both The Outlander series and 50 Shades series.Can you compare an apple's taste to that of an orange?īoth are so very different-plain and simple. If you're into audio books, Davina Porter does a phenomenal job separating voices, accents and keeping my interest. For a taste, the TV series follows the book closely from what I've seen so far. That being said, if you don't like the story, it doesn't matter. Lots of research has obviously gone in to writing the vivid descriptions in this book to make it believable. I know that's over simplifying her background she's done so much more than that but my point is she knows how to write well and has an eye for detail. my expectations have been surpassed and none of them adequately did the book justice.ĭiana Gabaldon has 3 scientific degrees she has written articles and textbooks (including editing textbooks) prior to writing novels. Although there are a great many reviews and blurbs. Claire has to reconcile her memories of historical knowledge with she sees before her eyes. This book is driven by a complex web of characters, landscape, history, language and adventure. I read a variety of different books and enjoyed 50 Shades for different reasons but the nature of the books are so fundamentally different from the Outlander series that I do not feel they can be adequately compared. Those books did not paint a complex world or complex supporting characters. Strip away the wild sex and expensive life style, then 50 shades becomes simply a dialogue primarily between two characters overshadowed by their obsession with each other, insecurities and troubled past. The fact that so many are swooning on these characters and their love story is sickening.this is NOT love. abuse, punishment and practically forced sex is not love.I feel this is comparable to 50 shades due to the fact that both of these couples have deep psychological unhealthy relationships with eachother that sadly most of society are "in love" with these characters. Jamie and Claire are NOT a healthy relationship, this isn't love folks, this is lust. Not to mention for a guy she married for years the psychological factor of adultery was just kicked to the curb most of the entire book. Does she even attempt to tell him what he's doing isn't right? no. However that's no excuse for Claire who has a modern consciousness and knows this is extremely wrong. Nothing says Sexy like a guy taking you against your will? it's good to keep in mind this is still the 18th century and women were treated with less respect than in modern society. I really don't get why people are swooning over these books? It highlights infidelity, abuse of women, assault during lovemaking, rape, attempts at rape, one time she actually says no and he continues anyway because that's what "men do". Whereas Outlander read like a trashy romance novel disguised as historical fiction rather than actually a worthy novel of good plotline and twists. It's clear to me why they are making the comparison, fifty shades is about a very obsessive, unhealthy relationship and written like a 5th grade english class.
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