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The History Connection - The Pillars of the Earth
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List Price: $20.00
Our Price: $10.75
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Manufacturer: NAL Trade
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780451207142
ISBN: 0451207149
Label: NAL Trade
Manufacturer: NAL Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 976
Publication Date: 2002-02-04
Publisher: NAL Trade
Studio: NAL Trade
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Summary: I really don't know why I enjoyed this so much...
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Wonderful read
Comment: Amazing book. Extremely engrossing, although the first 100 pages are slower than most, the next 800+ pages fly by.
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Summary: Worst book I've read in a long time
Comment: I originally read The Pillars of the Earth when it was published in 1989. I enjoyed it at the time. I was 14.
More recently I had heard about the sequel and decided it was time to re-read the original beforehand. Wow. I'm having the hardest time forcing myself to get through it -- like some of the other reviewers mentioned I'm scanning the chapters for plot points to avoid the misery of wading through the writing. It's pulpy, the characters are one-dimensional, the prose is ponderous, and *everything* is laid out for the reader. The plot is interesting, but not novel. It's incredibly overrated, and I recommend you skip this one.
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Summary: Review: Pillars of the Earth
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Drivel
Comment: I have read several of Ken Follett's books, and this one is pure yack. My opinion is that it was ghost written. It's disjointed, contrived, wandering, puerile and, as a result, almost unreadable. I've enjoyed his other books, but this one is junk. It's as though a few basic ideas and a lot of arcane words (repetitively used) were fed into a computer program and spat back out. Forget the sequel. Don't waste your money on either book...sorry, Ken, but this one is way below par.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for the first time to a new audience of readers, in this attractive new trade paperback edition.
In 12th-century England, the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral signals the dawn of a new age. This majestic creation will bond clergy and kings, knights and peasants together in a story of toil, faith, ambition and rivalry. A sweeping tale of the turbulent middle ages, The Pillars of the Earth is a masterpiece from one of the world's most popular authors.
"A novel of majesty and power...Will hold you, fascinate you, surround you." --Chicago Sun-Times
"A towering tale...There's murder, arson, treachery, torture, love, and lust...A good time can be had by all." --New York Daily News
"Touches all human emotions...truly a novel to get lost in." --Cosmopolitan
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