Ah, OK. The other commenter seemed to imply that the sex-after-whipping scene was rape or possible rape.

*SPOILERS* for those who haven't read the first two books. Kinja really needs to add a spoiler tag.

Yes, the sex specifically. I mean, I could see Gabaldon saying oh, it was a different time for that as well. But I wonder if she meant it as rape or if the scene is just not written well.

I'd be curious to know what Gabaldon has said or written about this. I think I know what scene you're talking about, and I'm not sure I'd say it was rape. At the same time, I wish Gabaldon had just thrown in another sentence or two to clarify what the hell was going on.

At least he's passionate about something! That'd probably be one of my dealbreakers—someone who didn't feel strongly for anything.

Hear, hear. I love stories about how people's relationships work in reality. Nothing like how they're presented in something like Twilight, for example (so there's no such thing as vampire divorce?).

Depends too on the BMW. My SO drives a 20-year-old BMW and is so not one of those BMW douchebags.

I think he was like 10 years older. And I kept expecting the Reverend to introduce Roger or for Frank to ask who he was (as he does in the book).

The way they edited that scene, with Claire and Frank approaching the stones at the same time and seemingly hearing the other call out … in a parallel universe, the story would be about their great romance and how it survived their separation.

It's one of the things that's been debated on a forum that I participate in, whether or not Claire and Frank had a good marriage. I'm leaning towards your interpretation—their second honeymoon seemed to have been Frank doing genealogy research. Even going to the stones in the first place to witness the druid ritual…

I remember loving Generation X when I read it, probably because I too was the target audience. Wasn't it in that book (or maybe another Coupland) where the main character talks about wanting to burn up like a phoenix so he could start over? Something like that. I still think about that idea of rebirth.

What about an article? When I was college age, I read a National Geographic article on either an endangered prairie dog or the black-footed ferret, which preys on prairie dogs. Cattle farmers did not support this endangered species because of the holes created by prairie dogs—their cattle would stumble on these holes,…

Back at Leoch was my first thought. But there are several what I think significant events that happen between the wedding night and Leoch, and I don't know how they'll squeeze all that into two episodes.

According to <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/outlan…">this Vulture article</a>, "While the scene marked the first time the characters had had sex with each other, the actors who play Claire and Jamie had already done a love scene together — a more intense scene that we won't see until episode nine when Outla…

I'd like to help because I already spend too much time on here anyway, and I never got a coveted star with the old commenting system.

My dad said he once freed a young fox from the chainlink fence around our backyard. The fox's head was on the other side of the fence, I believe, so there was little danger of his getting bit, but my dad said he had to carefully maneuver the fox's limbs while figuring out where to cut the fence. He said after the fox…

Clariel will be published Oct. 14, 2014, in the U.S. I think I will also reread the series prior to reading Clariel. I've been putting it off though because 1) I'm afraid I won't enjoy it as much as I remember enjoying it or 2) if it's as good as I remember it being, I want to save it for when I have time to read it…

Yay, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's constantly at the library (less than a block from my local branch). I know most of the desk clerks by name. It's a suburban library though, so I see regulars only occasionally. I think most people who live around here just buy books/movies.

I'd highly recommend sci-fi author Octavia Butler. I've only read three books by her so far—Fledgling, about vampires, is a standalone though it reads as if there should be a sequel (I read but haven't confirmed that she passed away shortly after it was published); Parable of the Sower, about survival in a…

I had the same reaction when I read it awhile ago. I love the movie but found the book to be a little too strange and without the (saccharine) lesson of the movie. It didn't tempt me to continue the series.