Love the idea of this book, and the great story of the people who built the monumental cathedral of England. Follett painted a great historical picture, and brought to life the origins not only of the cathedral, but the entire society surrounding the great achievement of the past. We still appreci...
4,5 stars Ken Follett é um dos grandes autores da actualidade. Muitos (incluindo eu própria) começámos por reconhecer a mestria do autor nos policiais e nos thrillers que ele constrói, mas Follett é um autor com várias facetas e por isso mesmo, durante anos desejou entregar às tramas históricas. Qua...
What attracted me to this book was primarily because everyone was raving about it and the title was quite intriguing. I would not usually go for an epic historical fiction but… I would usually give many books a go anyway. I have to admit though that this copy has been sitting on my shelf for possib...
After hearing so many good things about this book and waiting so long to read it, I have to say it was a disappointment. I didn't think it was horrible, but it wasn't good either. Story and writing were mediocre. Some descriptions call this an "epic", but I wouldn't go so far. Simply a long book doe...
This is my first Ken Follett and I am not impressed. I know alot about his writing process (outlines, etc) and was surprised to find lots of little editing problems (Aliena's age goes from 16-15-17-18 in the first half). The people are all too inter-connected, and everything is very contrived. Overa...
How does one review a book that one cannot even describe?So many times after gushing about how good Pillars was, people ask me, What’s it about?And I, swirling in the happy aftermath of a mind so blown away that it’s still traveling near the speed of light in zero gravity space, struggle to gather w...
Well, I finally finished the audiobook version of The Pillars of the Earth, and it is definitely epic in scope. This makes it easy to do a decent job of characterization (plenty of pages and time to develop the characters), but also makes it difficult to keep that characterization consistent. In t...
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