Descriptions of Highland Attire in the Katherine Kurtz Adept Series

[wildrover]

Whaaaaaat??? How did I miss this thread?

That's one of my favorite series, though I stopped following it after "Death of an Adept"...did it continue after that, and did it continue to be good?

I was just looking at my "book stack" (I need a proper shelf, it's a HUGE stack) the other day and realized I haven't read those books in a long while, now. Some of the descriptions made me want to visit some of those sites referenced in the books (descriptions of places, not human sacrifices...).

Real good thread . Time to pick up an old book, maybe.

[ggibby]

Does the "...romance..." involve heaving bosoms, bodices ripping, or throbbing of any sort?

SWMBO loves that sort of thing (as a break from Eggers, Allende or Rushdie), especially if a brogue, glen, of tartan is involved.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Does the "...romance..." involve heaving bosoms, bodices ripping, or throbbing of any sort?

Good Lord, no. They're Scottish! Probably involves trying to say warm in some drafty, half frozen castle.

[Bugbear]

Does the "...romance..." involve heaving bosoms, bodices ripping, or throbbing of any sort?

SWMBO loves that sort of thing (as a break from Eggers, Allende or Rushdie), especially if a brogue, glen, of tartan is involved.

It is very mild hanky panky, and most of the romance is wedding related. I'm not an expert in those subjects.

There is one reincarnation-related LGBT character who makes a brief appearance in one of the novels.

I suppose knowing a little about C. G. Jung's later work might be useful for reading the series.

[wildrover]

I don't recall any fully orbed romance in those books...some swooning, but no more than a bit of monogamous wink 'n' tickle. Bonus points for picking up a girl at a funeral, if I remember right. See 'Wedding Crashers'. Most of the romance is "high class British porn" a la Family Guy . No bodice ripping, throbbing, breathlessness or turgidity.

...I am an expert in these subjects.

[Bugbear]

There's some premarital hanky panky in Death of an Adept.

It's mostly psychological description, though.

[wildrover]

There's some premarital hanky panky in Death of an Adept.

It's mostly psychological description, though.

"His frontal lobe throbbed with deep thoughts of the marital bliss they might one day share. She swooned as the skin rippled between his brows..."

Ok, that's about all I got.

[Drac]

"His frontal lobe throbbed with deep thoughts of the marital bliss they might one day share. She swooned as the skin rippled between his brows..."

Ok, that's about all I got.

I'll have to check but I seem to remember something about the loss of intellegence in a hotel sequence.

Jim

[Bugbear]

Ya, that's it.

[Bugbear]

Although, it is not a Henry James style of psychological hanky panky. There is no inferring of thoughts, then the inferring of the inference of thoughts, then the inferring of the inference of the inference of the thoughts, then the recognition of the inferring of the inferring of the inferring of the original thoughts. Rather, the hanky panky is mostly inferred, Keats-like, then the states of mind, post hanky panky, are discussed: the decentering of the male Self etc. Singing does, however, take place at some point afterward.