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The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
from NAL Trade

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• There's a good story buried in here...
  it's just too bad that Follett felt the need to pad it with an extra 400 unneccessary pages. Despite the uninspired proses, high school-ish dialogue and a few sinks thrown at the reader, the book has just enough to make you continue to find out what the heck happened. But I have to tell you, by page 700 I was sick of this cathedral. I do like that the women weren't always helpless damsels, despite a few horrible things happening to them, but did all the men have to be complete jerks? Other than Phillip I... more info

• A very long bodice ripper . . .
  This book reminded me of the bodice rippers that I read when I was a teenager - you know, the ones with Fabio on the cover? It was much longer, of course, more like 3 bodice rippers in one novel. There's the sexy heroine (Aliena), the likeable tradesman (Tom), the evil lord (William), and the saintly monk (Phillip). The story is good vs. evil, true love conquers all, blah, blah.
  I finished this book, and found it readable, and even compelling in some parts. The violence bothered me, and I got weary of... more info

• Expansive and Engaging
  I had this book recommended to me a number of years ago. After fruitless years of searching for a cheap used copy in a thrift or second hand store, I finally broke down and bought it (I know, I know, libraries are good too . . .). And I'm glad I did. In this huge historical masterpiece, Follett unfolds a masterful tail of life in the village of Kingsbridge, England over a forty-year period as it emerges from relative obscurity to become a cathedral city.
  The book begins with a mysterious hanging of a... more info

• Warning about the Kindle edition!
  If you open the Kindle edition of the book by double-clicking on the title in your list of books the Kindle edition opens at Chapter 1. Don't do that. If you do you miss the Prologue. The Prologue sets up a conflict at the heart of the story. I liked the book without the Prologue but it would've been better with it. To access the Prologue you need to use the Menu to open the book. You can get there from the Title page and use Next Page to go forward or you can choose one of the other options that preceed... more info

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