<p>I just read that *Exile *by Diana Gabaldon will be a graphic novel. I always thought graphic novels were mainly cartoon novels or storyboard type of works. I have a little trouble imagining this. </p>
<p>Anyone know more about this?</p>
<p>EDIT: Oops, just realized that Lafalum84 already stated this and I just didn’t pick up on it.</p>
<p>Lafalum: Love.Love.Love Bill Bryson! A Walk in he Woods is priceless!</p>
<p>I’m surprised no one mentioned “The Passage.” I read it earlier this summer and really enjoyed it - and I usually don’t read that kind of thing.</p>
<p>Bryson- he had a funny one about travelling through GB by train…Notes From a Small Island, I think it was.</p>
<p>Summer is not over yet, right? Not that I will be spending any time sitting on the beach til next June. </p>
<p>I got caught up in the Outlander craze and just finished A Breath of Snow and Ashes before work this morning. An Echo in the Bone was just delivered to my Kindle (gotta love the instant gratification you get from the Kindle). I could not put the first couple of books down. By book 4 I was starting to get weary, but had to know what was going to happen to Jamie and Clare and kept reading. I thoroughly enjoyed Snow and Ashes and can’t wait to start Echo. </p>
<p>Big thanks to all those who suggested this series!</p>
<p>Don’t get too excited about Echo. I felt like it took way too long to get going, then finally she had about 4 different story lines all building to a huge crescendo - I’m thinking, this is gonna be great - but apparently she ran out of pages. Rushed a “conclusion” to one story line and left the others hanging. Huh?</p>
<p>However, I love all the characters and the setting. I hate to pick on Diana Gabaldon, I love this series… I just wish she had paced Echo better and told us what happens instead of leaving us hanging after all those pages!</p>
<p>^^^^Finished Echo today on the plane back from London. Many cliffhangers, an obvious nod to a future book. Has she even started working on the next one? I thought the way it “ended” stunk.</p>
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<p>There are excerpts from book 8 on the web. I believe the tentative release date is fall 2013, which makes me even more glad I didn’t start the series back in 1991. That would have been an unbelievably long wait. </p>
<p>A new Outlander book, The Exile, was just released yesterday. It’s a graphic novel that tells Jamie’s side of the Outlander story to the point he and Claire are on their way to Lallybroch. It’s very short, especially compared to the series.</p>
<p>nrdsb4, it didn’t “end” - it just stopped.</p>
<p>Not a graphic novel person. Wish she would have just gone into book 8, but perhaps she needed a break (from the way Book 7 wandered, I think she does need one). I can see how it would take her a long time to write these books - so much detail, so much research involved - but waiting 3 years is gonna be hard… :(</p>
<p>^^^^I agree; that’s why I put the word “ended” in quote marks. </p>
<p>In my opinion, the way the book was handled was actually rather disrespectful of her readers. It seems like she couldn’t be bothered to actually end it - she didn’t necessarily need to tie up all the loose ends, but to just quit writing seems a bit arrogant. Very disappointing and almost insulting in a way.</p>
<p>After reading all the posts here about the Outlander series (which I had never heard of), I was excited to see Amazon offer the first book FREE in Kindle format. I downloaded it yesterday. I look forward to getting sucked into the series over the fall/winter.</p>