100年來最傑出的25本Romance books

媽咪有個認識了5年的韓國網友Jaime(女仔來的，而且很漂亮像BOA那類少女)，上月她要去加拿大留學去，送了一本書給媽咪，還說「我的名字Jamie是書中的主角，這是我讀過最好的小說。」。話晒，人地係讀英國文學和比較文學出身的，媽咪當然不會懷疑她的選擇。

好啦，as a good dog dog, me read the book with mama since this monday.哇! 哇! 700+頁，我們真的用了2天來看，很吸引吧? 你錯啦，我們是skip住來看的，0甘白痴的一本書還被亞馬遜書店列出了過去100年來最傑出的25本Romance books之一。

故事是一個叫Claire的女人和他在現實世界裡的老公Frank，去scotland第二度honeymoon(因為他們第一次結左婚後唔夠十日就分開去打仗)。Nothing important about their real life, Claire and Frank are just very ordinary people. 當Claire在一堆ancient ruin摸了一個石頭就彈左佢回400年前的scotland，她在那兒遇上高大威猛英俊瀟灑好打「係女人見到都要愛上」的Jaime，聽到呢度已經好老土了。不過那才是第90頁左右....Claire是一個護士，由一次幫Jamie駁回斷了的肩骨時開始令jamie對她暗生情緒，大約在250頁他們被迫結婚，Claire當晚幫Jamie破處，Jamie自破處後由一個hero形象變成虛心聽Claire教如何有better sex的鴨! 對，因為我和媽咪都覺得起初Claire當Jamie是一隻英俊又不用花錢的鴨!

300-600頁 幾萬次sex scene (不意淫、也不浪漫，因為Claire好似個老師0甘好多說教的野講，都不知道那個jamie點頂，仲要口口聲聲說時時刻刻要她在自己身邊)。跟住無啦啦個隻鴨Jamie成日打claire，打完又好後悔不過下次又打、又後悔又打又後悔.....。

後來兩條友仔被人捉左折騰時，我和媽咪都好想他們死，所以很喜歡個壞人的說。 當然沒有死啦......狗都頂唔順呀!!! 最恐怖係，本書有續集再續集，今年十月出的是再再再續集。要看這類的我介紹你看不可思義的遊戲(有成十幾個男人任你愛)、來自遠方(個男人沒有打女主角也沒有變成鴨)、又還是ps2 game的遙遠時空比你選男人拍拖都好呀(已變成漫畫了)。

700頁幾頁可以變成200頁都可以的書。amazon的review還說"unputdownable"，哈哈Oh please Jamie, Oh please Oh please。*打冷震*

This book got 4.5 stars on amazon, read the most true and honest review of this book:

O.K. My co-worker said "you gotta read this book." So I started and stopped at around 400 pages or so. Don't get me wrong, the author can put a story together. The main frustrations for me include...enough already with the sex scenes! Almost everytime Claire and Jamie came together (no pun intended) they jumped on each others bones. One of the most unbelievable sex scampades is that after they are almost killed by those men with bad/no teeth, they go into the heather and f*()(* like rabbits. Come on people! I would be high tailing it so fast out of there.....

Next, where was the story? It started out promising and then it is Claire and Jamie talking, screwing, talking, riding somewhere, talking...yada, yada, yada boring. Any historical context disappeared after the first few chapters. Also Claire does not seem too bothered about loosing her husband or even why she went back in time and how she got there. She has very little trouble wearing the period clothes, eating the period food, dealing with period vermin, going without a bath or shower, dealing with the period cold, the period smells...you name it. Nevermind being nearly raped everytime she is with the enemy. And Jamie being a 23 year old virgin when they get hitched..not bloody likely!

I could go on but if you are looking for a more historical fiction type of novel don't bother. If you are looking for a fantasy in the character of stud muffin Jamie, go for it.

Now what am I to tell me friend?

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