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Summary: AWESOME!!
Comment: An amazing read, couldn't put it down. The characters are engaging, the story is gripping. Architectural details form the settings perfectly.
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Summary: A historically inaccurate, voyeuristic, modern thriller
Comment: I picked up this book with some interest and expectations. I should not have.
This book assumes, as most moderns do, that the medieval ages was full of 21st century people, with 21st century mindsets, who just got raped and tortured more.
enough said.
The rape scenes are described in shallow, graphic, thriller detail... I suppose Ken figured enough modern people would buy the book to vicariously enjoy the gratuitous, graphic, entertaining rape and torture scenes....
trash. In every sense of the word.
(there is alot of primary sources out there, translated into English, for anyone interested in the real people of that age. Its completely unlike our modern conceptions of them. for starters, ISBN 1551115506 0879071379 0951150308 9780140448993 [...] )
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Summary: Great choice by Oprah
Comment: After reading and loving Night by Elie Wiesel, I thought I'd try another of Oprah's book club picks. I had high expectations and was thoroughly satisfied with this book. It is a story that seems to go on endlessly as if you are reading a true history! Lots of accurate facts and descriptions to make you feels as if you are really there. At the end I was left with a feeling of sadness knowing it was all coming to a close. The sign of a great read!
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Summary: A must read
Comment: The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) Not your usual Ken Follett, but of the highest excellence. Gripping, informative, and thoroughly enjoyable. I bought the audio edition for my 89-year-old father who was a mason by trade. My 90-year-old mother, who consumes books like confections, will also be wrapped up in it.
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Summary: Simply Brilliant
Comment: Follett is a master who has created a work that, despite being set hundreds of years in the past, reflects the very sort of political shenanigans and manipulations that are going on today. Pillars of the Earth is rich in sensory detail, easily transporting the reader to the Middle Ages. The book is structured very well, telling the tales of the various characters in parts before knitting them seamlessly together to give us the whole.
Jack Builder is one of the most original and fascinating characters I've ever read, followed by his mother, Ellen. I enjoyed Pillars of the Earth and I'm looking forward to reading World Without End.
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