The Pillars of the Earth | Review: Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth | Wonderful read

The Pillars of the...

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highly recommended

Review: Pillars of the Earth

This book was a true pleasure to read. And I enjoyed reading it on my Kindle as well. I am now reading Ken Follet's sequal to this book, which takes place several hundred years later. I give it 5 stars.

Wonderful read

Amazing book. Extremely engrossing, although the first 100 pages are slower than most, the next 800+ pages fly by.

I really don't know why I enjoyed this so much...

Almost at 1,000 pages, this book sure is a brick. But what an amazing brick it is! The story captivated me for some reason...and apparently, Oprah likes it too.

So Get On With It!!! A Rube Goldberg Epic?

Expecting a phenomenal read, I started this book months ago. The very first chapters were a good read and I anticipated that the story would break off into different paths, like branches on a tree; and that they would somehow converge as the tale unfolded. While I recognized writing expertise, there were, often times, foolish and childlike verbiage, what I might term 'baby sentences.' The story eventually unfolds from one disaster, evil character, hardship, persecution, greed, power seeker, rape and pillage...to another. The worse characters keep reappearing again and again, to be trusted again and again, feared again and again, or to be indulged again and again to perform their nasty purposes. Taking license with the artistry of Rube Goldberg, one horror leads to another with a short respite of heaven thrown in every so often, to once again turn into another horror as the balances swing, the tables turn and the levels become unlevelled. I had to push through the 970 odd pages.
The strange part of it....while I thought the book rambled on as this review seems to in order to relate my reading experience....I believe it would make a very popular and enjoyable mini series...uh...that might have one too many episodes!

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