Condensed Outlander

[kattahj]

Since I didn't get a beta, I'm posting without - love2loveher said that there weren't any glaring grammar mistakes, and that's good enough for me.

Anyway. For those of you who want to know what Diana Gabaldon was on about without reading her books, or those of you who have read her books and just want the condensed crack version, here's my condensed Outlander

Comments

[roxymissrose]

*blinks*

So, she's doing us a favor by disallowing fanfiction....

I must admit, I had to dash a tear or two away...such a poor nailed-hand woobie!

[kattahj]

*grin* It pretty much is fanfiction - h/c id vortex fanfiction for teenage girls. I ate this stuff up whole when I was seventeen, and there are bits and people (Colum!) I'm attached to even now. Unfortunately, the latter books in the series aren't even that - they're more like long, rambly, still sometimes h/c-ish curtain fics.

ETA: Actually, you know what it's like? It's like Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (with dashes of the OTP-ness of Beauty and the Beast), if the writers were under contractual obligation to have two sex scenes in every episode, and every ten minutes someone had to hit Sully with a stick.

[roxymissrose]

every ten minutes someone had to hit Sully with a stick.

It's three o'clock in the morning, and I hurt myself trying to laugh quietly!

[kattahj]

:-D Then my work here is done!

[wee_warrior]

...can't... breathe...

I had heard of the book before, but didn't know it was this, erm, colourful.

[kattahj]

LOL! It's colourful all right. Someone called Gabaldon a "feral fan" and that's pretty much exactly what she is; there are so many fannish impulses in the writing, from the h/c to the vilification of Laoghaire.

[wee_warrior]

I showed your version to my roommate, who has read the first book, and she was rolling on the floor. She said there were so many things she had repressed about it, but you summarized them all perfectly.*g*

[kattahj]

Hee! I'm so very glad! It's good to get some feedback from someone who has actually read it, too.

Truth be told, I'm sitting here waiting for one of the harcore) fans of the Leg-hair variety (I wasn't kidding about that, google Outlander and Leg-hair and see what you find) to stumble upon this. In a "Go on, tell me any of it is incorrect. I DARE YA!" kind of way.

[paradise_city]

Oh my goodness. How do people read these books?

[kattahj]

In all fairness, the first couple are very entertaining, and not entirely in a bad way. She's got a sense of humour, she does her research, and if you're an h/c fan (I was even more of one as a teen than I am now) they can really hit the spot.

But of course googling "thump fic" is cheaper.

[greenet]

...so basically this doesn't even need fanfiction, it needs a sane canon?

also, now I kinda want to reread Sagaen om Isfolket. The woobie count should be off the charts.

[kattahj]

If it did have a sane canon, this is what people would most likely turn it into anyway. She's just skipping the first few steps.

also, now I kinda want to reread Sagaen om Isfolket. The woobie count should be off the charts.

Isn't that 50-ish books long, though? (I never read it, for that very reason.)

[kattahj]

I don't think it's so much a ban as it is a request. She doesn't want any confusion about who has made the parodies, which I think is fair enough.

And LOL!