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If you want a (more) historically accurate novel about early scotland, I can recommend you John Buchan's Witch Wood. It's an eident randan, wi kittle and skilly attention to the language, ye ken, Yon Tweedsmuir is a chiel wi lear. It's seventeenth century and lowlands, not eighteenth century and hieland, but it's a good read for all that.
Fred, I'm sorry to disagree with you, but a Pommel is not a western saddle invention. It is a location on top at the very front of the saddle. I've ridden "English" for many years. All saddles have a pommel-the Western saddle has a horn as a pommel for the lariat. If the Scottish saddle had a horn, then the author's mistaken. I enjoyed the books which describe the grit of life as it can be with torture, sex, (both rape and loving,) deception and intricate, varied human personalities. I loved the series--both books and TV, skimmed or fast-forwarded the torture, read the sex scenes to my husband and didn't think the series slowed until the last book where the history and battles got in my way. A rip-roaring good read and TV series. I preordered her last book already. As any thing, "to each his own..." Perhaps, as an author, I may have a more dissection oriented opinion now; but I doubt it. I read for pleasure and relaxation; so I'm not looking for the writer's weaknesses that you saw; I read right through with a delightful story engagement in both characters and the world as Gabaldon richly describes it.
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If you want a (more) historically accurate novel about early scotland, I can recommend you John Buchan's Witch Wood. It's an eident randan, wi kittle and skilly attention to the language, ye ken, Yon Tweedsmuir is a chiel wi lear. It's seventeenth century and lowlands, not eighteenth century and hieland, but it's a good read for all that.
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Fred, I'm sorry to disagree with you, but a Pommel is not a western saddle invention. It is a location on top at the very front of the saddle. I've ridden "English" for many years. All saddles have a pommel-the Western saddle has a horn as a pommel for the lariat. If the Scottish saddle had a horn, then the author's mistaken. I enjoyed the books which describe the grit of life as it can be with torture, sex, (both rape and loving,) deception and intricate, varied human personalities. I loved the series--both books and TV, skimmed or fast-forwarded the torture, read the sex scenes to my husband and didn't think the series slowed until the last book where the history and battles got in my way. A rip-roaring good read and TV series. I preordered her last book already. As any thing, "to each his own..." Perhaps, as an author, I may have a more dissection oriented opinion now; but I doubt it. I read for pleasure and relaxation; so I'm not looking for the writer's weaknesses that you saw; I read right through with a delightful story engagement in both characters and the world as Gabaldon richly describes it.
