Comments on: WHAT’S YOUR LINE?

By: Elizabeth Y

Elizabeth Y — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:25:59 +0000

I think I love every interaction between Lord John and Jamie, Lord John and Brianna, and Lord John and Claire. (I mean, I love the love between Jamie and Claire, of course, but every great romance needs a leavening of perfectly enunciated snark.) Also between William and anyone in his birth family. I think my favorite parts begin from where Bree discovers William’s existence (and confronts Lord John about it). My next favorite parts were all the meetings, marriages and revelations of the last section of Snow and Ashes… (actually I love the final sections of pretty much all of your novels… and the beginnings and middles too, of course…) and then basically everyone’s interactions in Heart’s Blood had me squealing with glee throughout. Especially Lord John and Jamie’s confrontation at the beginning: “I’m not bloody sorry!” I love it. He’s a feisty wee gomerel, isn’t he? And also…well, basically my favorite part is the whole series. There, that narrows it down.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:28:08 +0000

I have a lot of favs… But just read this one and it’s great description….
(Snow and Ashes) Mr. Bug speaking about how he lost his fingers…
“A bow’s like a good-wife, aye? Knows her master, and answers his touch. An ax, though”. “An ax is a whore. Any man can use one— and its works as well in either hand.”

By: Cora N

Cora N — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 02:50:23 +0000

Just started reading this book series and finished the first volume, and having been raised by a herpetologist and having been around snakes all my life, that line cracks me up to no end (snakes have no cocks, just a cloaca, but the males do have “spurs,” vestigial limbs that they use to spread the female open and stimulate her, and the thought of someone thinking they’re penises not only seems correct for the period [amazing detail to period thinking by Dr. Gabaldon], but is HILARIOUS).

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:11:50 +0000

Dear Tanya–

Nowhere does it say he passed a “dark” stranger. And yes, of course it’s Jamie. (We’ll explain that, but it will be the last thing in the last book, and we aren’t there yet. [g])

–Diana

By: Tanya

Tanya — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:46:39 +0000

In the first book of Outlander series ( Stitch in Time ) it mentions Frank passing a dark stranger in highland kilt whilst standing in mist watching Claire brush her hair ( he had red hair???) – who is this character – could it possibly be Jamie??? is there anymore ‘Bulges’ as so aptly put in you new book “Trial of Fire’ that explains this??? I’m more than curious…
Tanya

By: Renata

Renata — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:05:03 +0000

“Ye could raise me from the dead for that, Sassenach, and I wouldna mind it.”

By: Renata (from Brazil)

Renata (from Brazil) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:39:40 +0000

OMG! I remember when I read this I laughed so hard that my mother and my husband came to see what was happening!

By: Désirée

Désirée — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:22:45 +0000

Haha, that is too funny about the hedgehog thing!!! Even better than the version I’ve known so far.

I do own all books starting with “The Drums of Autumn” in both German and English, but Outlander I have only read in German…backtranslating it into English, in the German version he says to Claire: “You thought it would make more of an impression if ye woke me out of a sound sleep by shouting ‘HORROR!’ in my ear?”

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:53:52 +0000

Dear Stacy–

“He’s a man–and that’s no small thing to be.” I think it’s in A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES, but no idea what chapter. You might check Amazon.com’s “Look inside” feature for it, though.

–Diana

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:41:39 +0000

Help!

In one of Diana Gabaldon’s books — when they are in the Americas — Claire describes Jaime as, “He’s a Man…and that’s no small feat.”

Can anyone help me with the book and the chapter/page number?

Thanks.