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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: NAL Catalog: eBooks Release date: 2007-10-02 Media: Kindle Edition Format: Kindle Book Number of pages: 976  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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| "Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner," extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it is a beloved favorite of countless readers, standing as a testament to Follett's unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. A spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect-a man divided in his soul...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother. |
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 Written on November 28, 2008 Summary: Hoping for better Enough people had recommended, nay, shoved this book into my hands that I greatly anticipated a good read to take me through the holidays. But the first hundred pages found me thinking, right, this is the scene where she's going to have the baby. . .now she's going to die. . .and he's going to end up with the girl he was attracted to earlier. . .whoa, she shows up in the woods and has sex with him the day after his wife's death? Please. I think Follett was concerned that people wouldn't like his historial fiction and so inserted sex and violence at formulaic spots. Don't get me wrong, I like sex and violence, but the stuff in this book would have enthralled me when I was a teenager. Maybe that's the right audience. I pulled the plug on this medieval soap opera at 100 pages. Written on November 26, 2008 Summary: Pillars of the Earth I never received the book. I e=mailed the sender but she never responded. I want my money back, and if this is the way Amazon operates, I won't be ordering any more books from them. Susie Johnson Written on November 25, 2008 Summary: Give it a chance Read the first bit of this book outside the bed, somewhere where you can work at it a bit, because the base is there at the beginning. It's hard reading at first, but if you force yourself to get into it, the reward will be there further on. Written on November 25, 2008 Summary: Have to be interested in history What keeps you going through this book are the historical details, the remarks about classic architecture. If that sound like you, then this is your book because all the rest--the characters etc.--are solid and professional. But, if you're not a history addict, this might run a bit long. Written on November 24, 2008 Summary: A very good read, but not without flaws I debated over reading this book for a few months. The building of a cathedral did not sound too terribly compelling to me, but I couldn't resist. Ken Follett created characters so real, one almost forgets which characters are fictional and which are actual historical figures. This book is 973 pages long. The author truly took the time to develop each and every character before jumping full-scale into the story. Each group of characters are introduced separately: Tom, Agnes, Alfred and Martha. Ellen and Jack. Then we have Prior Philip, Frances, Peter, and Waleran Bigod. Earl Bartholomew, Aliena, Richard, and William Hamleigh. As the story unfolds, eventually all the stories of these great characters intertwine - the result - one unforgettable novel! Unfortunately, this book had a few historical inaccurcies. I will discuss the most obvious one. Aliena's father, Earl Bartholomew was accused of treason against King Stephen. In reality, his son would not have been allowed to remain behind at Shiring Castle. He either would have been executed along with his father, or he would have been thrown in the tower or held under house arrest for the rest of his days. As for Aliena, she would have been forced into a nunnery or kept as a ward of the king. Richard and Aliena should not have been living at Shiring Castle after their father was arrested. The children of disinherited nobles posed a threat to medieval monarchs, so the king always took steps to make sure they would not find themselves in a position to continue their father's work. I think Mr Follett spent too much time researching how to build a cathedral (sometimes the details are over two pages long) and not enough time researching 12th century culture. I didn't really feel as if I was reading a historical novel. Pillars felt too comptemporary for a novel set in the 12th century. The book also contains plenty of explicit rape scenes (mothers pimping their teenage daughters for some extra money), murders of women and children, and animal cruelty. These were all facts of life in this time period. I'm hardly going to hold it against the author. I really enjoyed this book...flaws and all. If you are looking for a book to get lost in, look no further than The Pillars of the Earth. World Without End is definitely on my list of books to read. |
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| Release date | 2007-10-02 | 2007-10-09 | 2008-01-22 | 2007-11-02 | 2002-05-20 |
| Media | Kindle Edition | Kindle Edition | Kindle Edition | Kindle Edition | Kindle Edition |
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| Number of pages | 976 | 1024 | 368 | 272 | 560 |
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