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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
If it's just an "I'm infinitely familiar that subject and the liberties taken and/or anachronisms bug me" kind-of thing; then that's one thing. But I get the distinct impression that many seem to believe that fiction set in it the past shouldn't be able to take the same liberties with "reality" as say fiction set in the present (or future) gets to.
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Annoyance, basically. In novels set in 18th century Scotland, I expect Scottish geography to have some correspondence with reality, and characters to behave and speak in a manner appropriate to the 18th century. Neither is the case in "Outlander". To me that shows that the author just couldn't be bothered to do her research into the subject matter she's writing about.