Format: Kindle (borrowed from Library)Narrated By: NAOriginal Publication Year: 2002Genre(s): Historical FictionSeries: The Pillars of the Earth #1Awards: NoneThis is a very well known book (turned into a mini-series) about the trials and tribulations involved with building a Cathedral in the twelft...
A weighty tome of a book that follows the lives of an extended family through the building of a cathedral. The family are stonemasons and go through the strife in the period as well as the internal strife that happens in a family full of strong-willed people. It was interesting to read about the up...
I should point out that this review is based on an abridged audiobook-version: 10 hours instead of 40 (yes, that means somebody apparently thought 3/4 were not really plot-relevent). I have never been so happy about an audiobook being abridged...I would not have been able to suffer through this much...
Confession time: This is not a book I would have picked out for myself. First of all, look at the size of this kitten squisher! Second of all, Amanda's hate-filled review of it is one of my favorite reviews on Goodreads. However, it's one of my girlfriend's favorite books and when she suggested I...
The book begins early in the 12th century, with the hanging of an unusual looking red-headed man. A woman named Ellen is in the crowd of onlookers. She is pregnant and in rags. After the hanging, she curses the priest, sheriff and knight who condemned him. We follow Ellen throughout the book and lea...
I liked this book enough to want to read on and know what would happen next: even though some of it was predictable, it was kind of a given that reversals of fortunes and new developments would be part of it, and that was something I wanted to read at the moment, so it was alright with me. (Perhaps ...
After a slow and awkward start, an easy to read story about a master-builder and his family, a prior and his monks and a dethroned daughter of an earl in twelfth-century England. Here and there parts of seemingly another book, probably called Pillars of the Cathedral seem copy-pasted in, which after...
It was good, not great. A fast read. I was interested in most of the story lines but I wasn't transported to the middle ages. Instead, the middle ages were used as wallpaper. The overwhelming negative, for me, was the writing. It was not fluid where I could get lost in the story. Many times I was je...
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