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Originally Posted by CRussel

I'll be interested to hear what you think of it. I've only read the first four of them, and only as audio books, but I did enjoy them. A bit more BDSM than I would prefer, but one can fast forward through it. I'm very interested to see how well the series follows the books.

Originally Posted by alansplace

I've only read part 1 (12%) of the first book and so far have experienced no occurrences of BDSM! So far it's keeping my interest quite well. Of course I've not yet seen any of the episodes of the new STARZ series, as episode 1 premieres this weekend. More later.

I've gotten up to one third of the way through Part Three, On the Road so far, but I only needed to have finished Part One, Inverness, 1945 before seeing this STARZ debut. Oh, and now I understand Charlie's BDSM comment.

Last evening my wife and I viewed Outlander's debut episode, called Sassenach (the episode's title). It followed the Epigraph and Part One, Inverness, 1945 (the first 5 chapters) of the novel quite closely. It captured my wife's interest as she's currently looking forward enthusiastically to the next episode. Oh, so am I.

Here's the first paragraph of a review by Ed Miller from time.com:

Outlander's debut episode delivers on multiple counts

If you have a predilection for epic romances and the super-specific sub-genre that is historical time-travel fiction, then you’re likely to find Outlander to be a sensory feast. Superficially, Starz’s new show is a torrid romance primed for an eager fandom desperate to re-direct their Game of Thrones enthusiasm. But Outlander is more than a sweepingly cinematic bodice ripper: it manages to shroud what fans (myself included) guilt-love about the genre in the much broader themes of history, feminism and free-will.

Neither my wife nor myself are fans of HBO's Game of Thrones.