World Without End | Ken Follett

World Without End | Ken Follett | A Great Alternative to "Reading Pillars of the Earth" Again

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World Without End

	World Without End Ken Follett Dutton Adult, 2007 - 1024 pages average customer review:based on 360 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End. Unabridged edition read by John Lee

Phenomenal book.

Phenomenal book. My husband and I read this book and Pillars of the Earth, respectively, then switched. We loved both!

A Great Alternative to "Reading Pillars of the Earth" Again

I liked the book. And I'd give it a full five stars and gush more about it if it didn't seem almost as if a template was lifted from "Pillars of the Earth" and dropped over Kingsbridge two hundred years later. Still, I enjoyed it enough to read it in just a few days.

My chief complaint--as others have noted--is that he sometimes uses modern day slang when accepted English would have done just as well and been much less jarring. It stunned me that such an experienced writer would do this. Stunned me even more that it would get past a good editor.

My other criticism is that he wrapped things up very abruptly. Almost as if mom had shouted into his room, "Ken, dinner in fifteen minutes--you need to finish what you're doing."

If nothing else, I enjoyed it more than I would have enjoyed picking up "Pillars of the Earth" and reading it a fourth time.

All criticisms aside, it's a good book and I'm glad I read it.

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Okay but....

Just finally finished the Kindle version. Enjoyable but it was a bit repetitive in some areas. Not to give away any elements of the plot but it seemed that a couple of the plot lines would get somewhat resolved, the story would move on to something new and then return to the same former thing. Nothing new the second go-around, just more of the same drama. Weird.

The characters are compelling and believable although in a few areas I thought Follett interjected 21st Century values into his story in an attempt to make the characters more heroic.

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