Me, defiantly:

To me it’s pretty clearly a case of one stand alone book being a surprise mega hit and then getting awkwardly spun into a whole series.

ugh YES! there is a line in either #3 or #4 where Claire says something like young Ian is a walking example of Murphy’s law and i had to pause the book (i listen to audiobooks in my car on my commute) and laugh for like 5 minutes.

I devoured the first book and started the second without taking a breath. By about 60 pages in, I was giving it serious side eye. By about 150, I’d thrown it across the room in disgust. By 220 I was dead of boredom and predictable tropes. By 250 I ragequit. Not willing to see if it gets better.

I don’t remember if it was book 4 but there was a point where I was out of patience with them too. I think it was when it seemed like there was an excessive focus on rape and it seemed to be a little more fetishistic about it than I was looking for. Even accounting for historical differences and the occasional…

I read a few of the books but quit in the middle of the Drums of Autumn. I feel annoyed by the writing style and I can’t get over how offensive she is to gay characters - they are all portrayed as sadistic monsters or child molesters and it bothers me.

I’ve found DG’s writing style different from most historical fiction (I don’t read romance). Sometimes it annoys me though, like she throws in SAT words just show how smart she is, or to prove it’s not your usual Harlequin romance novel. Sometimes it’s engrossing and flows well, and other times misses the mark and…

I’m on the last book, but I haven’t finished it yet.

Photographic evidence that Mar-a-Lago has a giant turd just sitting in the middle of the eating area:

Hitler never re-accommodated innocent people like these people just did.

It’s the “his own people” that’s most telling. At a subconscious, gut-belief level, Spicer doesn’t consider Jewish Germans and Austrians to be Germans and Austrians, i.e. Hitler’s people. He considers them wholly Other in a way that is analogous to Hitler’s own Othering of Jews, gays, Communists, dissenters, etc.

Holocaust centers.

Staples and investment pieces are worth their price. I don’t have those particular leggings but as a leggings aficionado—-good leggings is good leggings. I vote worth it!

I have bought clothes from them in the past, but I won’t in the future. I don’t shop at Walmart. I am Plus-Size. It’s not a dirty word. When I’m shopping online, I like to see what my clothes are going to look like on me, not on someone who weighs 100 lbs. Their clothes were always made with really cheap fabric…

Ah the luxury of having never bought an item from Walmart. You obviously have never lived in a small town with poor parents, and the only place for 30 miles is a Walmart. In rural areas, it’s a necessity.

Gregg Koger feeling disappointed by the criticism, criticism that she can now just wash her hands of, is pretty eye-roll inducing. Like...be disappointed in the direction your company went, in the fact that the CEO is a misogynistic creep, not because people are voicing their concerns about it. Be disappointed that…

It’s sexystential.

Scandal: No one can ever top these ridiculous plot lines!

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/nov/22/harry-reid/harry-reid-says-82-presidential-nominees-have-been/

Reminder: McConnell’s Republican Opposition Congress filibustered 79 Obama nominees before Reid went for the nuclear option.

I’m reading it NOW and I’m 32 and it’s so scary but I can’t put it down!