Voyager
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- ISBN13: 9780385335997
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the tale of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that started with the now-classic novel Outlander and nonstop in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the exotic West Indies, Diana Gabaldon weaves magic once again in an exhilarating and utterly unforgettable novel….
Their like affair happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her … and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.
When she discovers that Jamie may have survived, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face what awaits her … the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland … and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that lies beyond the standing stones.
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Throughout my life, whenever I was faced with unspeakable horrors, famine, disease, or just all-purpose unpleasantness, my faith in an all-poweful and merciful God has been as levelheaded and stable as the Rock of Gibraltar. But after having read Voyager, my faith has been jarred terribly enough to marvel why God would permit such a cruelty against mankind as this book.
For persons who care, I have read the previous two installments of Gabaldon’s books (reviewed on this site) and I have establish them to be sorely missing, whether from their preposterous plots, unending and pointless tangents that serve no real purpose, loathsome and uniformly featureless characters, scant to the point of non-existent past research in major events (eg, the battle of Culloden), and laughably terrible sex scenes that make me reflect that the leader needs to undergo a course of cold baths before she is allowed near a typewriter. Oh, mistake me not, Voyager has all of these dismal aspects as well, but this time they’re mixed together in a witches’ brew so toxic that I nearly gave up reading out of despair. But sheer pigheadedness prevented me from doing so, as there was no way that amateurish pap like Voyager was going to go alongside right classics like The Illiad and Don Quixote as the only books that have bested me.
I sit here and reflect after having endured 1100 pages of this book, and I am still at a loss to clarify what occurs, how, why, or even care. There are tremendous gaps in continuity, a leap of faith and logic so severe that I wound up suffering the literary equivalent of a groin pull (a line written in 1765 from Burns, but Claire swears it’s Jamie, even though she’s in 1968 at the time, thus propelling her back to 17-who-counts-this-crap), and no explanations agreed for certain events (Jamie riding up in full fig at the head of a troop of French soldiers after escaping from HMS Porpoise, but no reason why that happened, it just did). If there is anything positive I can say, I establish the sailing ship setting to be reasonably evocative, as I have never laid eyes on such rank bilge in all my life. When Jamie and Claire were hypothesizing about the very ancient standing-stone time-travel portals that sent her back 200 years, I thought wistfully to myself “Wouldn’t it be fantastic if a U-Boat would have passed through one of them in Atlantis, and torpedoed Jamie and Claire’s ship, giving them a fitting demise?” But alas, it was not to be.
Since Jamie and Claire are now approaching middle age in this book, we are mercifully spared being witness to them behaving like a pair of demented rabbits as Jamie cocks a leg athwart Claire. Although the amount is no longer there, the quality has not improved one whit. Gabaldon decides to try to make merry by writing something truly abysmal (a passage of a romance novel Claire is reading states “his engorged shaft teased aside the membrane of her innocence”. yeesh), but then comes along later in the book with this snappy small jewel from Jamie that thuds out of his mouth like a concrete block on your foot. “I meant to suckle ye through the thin cotton, ’til your nipples stood up hard in my mouth”. I honestly cannot make my mind up as to which passage is worse. In lieu of compound castration, this book should be read to convicted sex offenders as they’ll wind up permanently flaccid. Limp, limp, limp writing.
To the delusional fans of this series, stop kidding yourselves as this is NOT literature, but indeed it IS the veriest trash. This book is not even excellent enough to warrant the moniker of “fluff” as that implies a light, trivial read, but rather this book is a thick, tarry mass all along and throughout, as indigestible as metal filings secreted in your food. I’ll be charitable and say that this book must have been the result of a bar bet on Gabaldon’s part (after three trays of tequila shooters) going along the lines of “I bet you that I can write 1100 pages of pointless drivel that goes absolutely nowhere, and I’ll STILL wind up at the top of the bestseller list! Another round, barkeep!” In that regard, she has succeeded spectacularly, but at the expense of the reading public. Anything, and I do mean anything, is an improvement by leaps and bounds over this book that should have a bio-hazard warning printed on its take in as warning.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I wouldn’t buy it. I’m glad that I only bought the hardcover edition at barnes and nobles for 5 books. It was slow, dumb, and quit dull. The only excellent book in the series was Dragonfly in Amber. Here, in this book, it is slow and repetitive. Yawn.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Outlander was a really fun book to read. Dragonfly in Amber was weird, but still fun. This book is pretty stupid, though. Claire keeps losing her clothes and getting pretty new ones — over and over. The book jumps from one bizarre calamity to another, lacking enough tale in between to hold it together.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is so poorly researched that it’s a crying bring shame on. The history of the time could have made up for poor plot lines, no backbone and sheer boredom. At least if the past storylines are accurate you can get caught up in “believing” in the tale. But in this case this, the lack of research is glaringly evident.
One quick example. At one point Claire questions a character when he was born. 1713 is the answer. Claire than says something about betting her clothes on the chance that 1713 was the Year of the Rat. OK, so Chinese New Year is in February. Ms. Gabaladon had two chances to get that right and she missed by a mile.
All respect for her as an historian was lost right there.
And keeping to the tale she tells and her lack of follow through… what happened to Gaellie’s child?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I loved this book and had a hard time putting it down to do anything else. . ..one of the leader’s best for sure…
If you liked this book, or want to read one that goes straight to your heart, read Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher. . .It is a gorgeous tale of unrequited like. . .for certain the like tale of the nineties. I proposed to give the book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the tale that I couldn’t place the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter’s battle with lupus and her growing like for Don Lipton. This like, in the face of Julie’s impending death, makes for a tale that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are fantastic, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I’ve never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie’s tale will remind your readers that life and like are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I’m grateful. Stolen Moments is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to weep. It is a spellbinder. What terrific writing. Barbara does have an exceptional gift! This book was edited by Lupus specialist Dr. Matt Morrow too, and has the latest information on that disease. ..A perfect gift for a name who ongoing college late in life, fell in like too late in life, is living with any illness, or trying to know a loved one who is. . .A Christmas gift to be cherished forever.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5