it's just good stuff....

Am rereading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series of late. The lit snob in me can't believe how much I love these books, they are after all *romance* novels. But, they are impeccably researched. Gabaldon has a PhD and you can tell it from her texts. There's a whole Jacobite history within the pages of her tales, a history that it would take a professional researcher (oh, like let's say a doctoral candidate)to put together.

My point.... I guess, is that us overeducated types spend so much time around other overeducated types that we forget that those years in school really have taught us skill sets not commonly in play among the general population. Question it? Read 50 pages of any of the Outlander books, then read 50 pages of any other novel shelved near it, and I guarantee you'll simply be blown away.