Comments on: JAMIE or JOHN? SCOTTISH PRISONER EXCERPT on SCRIBD!

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:46:41 +0000

Dear Lacy–

I believe they may have had to wait for the license for that book to be renewed; if it’s not available now, it should be soon.

Best,

–Diana

By: Lacy

Lacy — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 05:23:25 +0000

Amazon does not have the audio companion for ABOSSA?

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:19:05 +0000

Dear J–

I’m sure he would tell Claire anything she wanted to know. Being a wise woman, she doesn’t ask questions she might not want to hear the answer to. As for Gaelic sweet nothings, he isn’t expressing personal regard or affection for her; he’s just trying to make the occasion less tense for both of them. He doesn’t _like_ her, but he’s old enough (and a good enough man) to perceive and have some sympathy for her situation, even though she _is_ taking advantage of him.

Best,

–Diana

By: J

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 23:27:37 +0000

What made me sad (amongst other things) about the Jamie/Geneva night was when Jamie started murmuring sweet nothings to Geneva in Gaelic. To me, that’s more like making love, and why it feels like more of a betrayal of Claire. And does Jamie ever actually tell Claire anything more about it than that it happened?

By: Min

Min — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:27:59 +0000

Dear Diana,

Thank you so much for the clarification. For ages ABOSA was not available in Australia, and book 7 was! So when it came through I was so exited I didnt even look whether it was abridged or unabridged. I saw it was only short but downloaded anyway! Now
I see that the unabridged it 57 hours long! Oh what bliss…. I will go back now and re listen.
Thanks again. I am deeply grateful.

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:26:10 +0000

Dear Min–

Um. Do you know what “abridged” means? Does it by any chance _say_ that on the copy of A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES that you have? Does that package by chance look _different_ from the others in the series? You have one of the (grossly butchered) abridgements made by Bantam Dell under an early contract, performed by Geraldine James. ABOSA–like ALL the books in the series–was performed in UNabridged form by Davina Porter. I see you’re in Australia, which is probably the problem; owing to license restrictions, Recorded Books (which does the unabridged versions) wasn’t allowed to sell their version in retail outlets until the license for the abridged version expires. However, I _think_ that we’ve now sorted the license arrangements so as to get the UNabridged version made available in places where it wasn’t previously; you might have a look, wherever you’re accustomed to buying your audiobooks. Audible.com certainly has it, though. Good luck!

–Diana

By: Min

Min — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:06:06 +0000

Hi, I have listened to all the audio books and loved them. Davina Porter is the main narrator and she is great. She does all the accents, and even though she is a woman when she does the male accents I forget she is a woman. There was another narrator for A Breath of Snow and Ashes. I felt her performance was wooden and it was shocking to have such a change, after 5 audiobooks, you get familiar with the narrators voice and therefore all the voices of the characters, to have it change like that felt all wrong. ABOSAA was the shortest of all the Outlander books, so it didn’t last long. And now I am back with Davina. I understand Davina was probably busy and couldn’t do it, but please please Diana don’t let it happen again.

By: Min

Min — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:47:51 +0000

‘there before the grace of God go I’
I believe Diana has captured a moment of extreme complexity, which she often does. It is easy to judge Jamie. But I am much more interested in trying to understand what might have been going on for him in that moment. Jamie couldn’t stop at that point. To be honest I think we have all experienced the ambiguity that exists around choice and inability. I am not excusing him, I felt uncomfortable when he didn’t pull out at that point, but I understand : couldn’t . Some speculation about it goes like this: Jamie is a trauma victim himself, he has been through a heel of alot and the way he holds it all together is remarkable, but there’s a lot pent up in there. He is in a terrible situation, as others have commented, Geneva is holding his life in her hands and playing with him. She may be 18 but she has real power there. So he gets to this point and he can’t stop……I’m going for empathy here rather than indictment. I don’t want to scapegoat Jamie into having to take responsibility for all the rapists in the world over this.

By: KatieRhodig

KatieRhodig — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:44:17 +0000

Marianne
If you dont like Jamie like you have stated why are you still reading the books and thinking about it?? Move on, go find some character that fits your saintly standards and quit picking on our hero!

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:33:35 +0000

Dear Frieda–

That would be _me_. [g] Thank you!

–Diana