Erm

I've been listening to Outlander, as you know, and I've also said that I've read that book four or five times.  Well, I've also read the other books in the series more than once (each); I hate Dragonfly in Amber, but I've even read that three or four times.  Anyway, I like my Gabaldon, even though the books are getting progressively worse.  (I mean, shit, does Claire or Bree or Jamie HAVE to be raped in every goddamn book?)  But I keep reading because, well, because I just love it so freaking much.  I'm pretty sure it's full-on Jamie Frasier love, but it's also probably more complicated than that.

I can't really see where Gabaldon is taking the books, mostly because I really don't care to read another long sea voyage (back to Scotland to get the press?) and I really could care less about Jamie and Claire and the Revolutionary War.  I'm frankly miffed that Bree and Roger and the kids went back to modern times without Claire and Jamie.  So again, where does that leave the books?  On Gabaldon's website, she states that the books will end in 1800, whatever that means.  And what of the graves in Scotland, and the fact that Claire and Jamie are supposedly headed there?

So what I've decided is that I want to just end this whole past thing, and bring Jamie to 1974.  That'd make a brilliant book, what with the Scottish Highlander first seeing an airplane and a car and you get the point.  I know Gabaldon won't do it, because I'm pretty sure that Jamie CAN'T go back through the stones, at least according to her own narrative.  But it's fiction after all, and god, what a good book that would be.  Some of my favorite parts of the Outlander series are those moments when Claire or Bree or Roger is explaining something from these times to Jamie.  So it only follows that a whole book of that alone woudl be great, right?  Like I've said, it won't ever happen. 

So it's pointless to hope.  In fact, I don't even know why I've written this all down, because I must sound like a blithering idiot, what with the Highlander and the stones, and so on.  But I was thinking it, and well *shrug*, I guess I felt like exposing the world to my blithering idiocy.

(This is off-topic, but ever since I started listening to that damn audiobook, I think in a Scottish accent.  My attempt at a Scottish accent is always pitiful, so I never really do say anything in the accent, but now that I'm thinking in it, it makes me want to use stupid Scottish phrases and a stupid accent whenever I say anything at all.  It's really rather annoying.)