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The Pillars Of The Earth

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  • 29-01-2009 10:38pm
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    nc6000
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    Has anyone read this? I've just finished it myself after getting a couple of rave recommendations. Though it was OK, a bit repetitive in parts and could have been a couple of hundred pages shorter. I'm on the sequel (World Without End) at the moment, seems fairly similar so far.


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    Blush_01
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    That's Ken Follett, isn't it? I haven't read it yet, but it's on my desk somewhere in the middle of the pile.

    Was there anything you particularly liked about it?


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    tHE vAGGABOND
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    loved both of them :)


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    Lizzykins
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    I read Pillars of the Earth years ago and when World Without End came out I rushed to get it. I hated it. Cardboard characters and not much of a plot. It just wasn't believable. The characters were like 21st century people set down in the 1340s. I didn't get a sense of the horror of the plague nor the grinding poverty. I just couldn't take to it at all.


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    girlbiker
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    Pillars was very good I thought, lots of drama, the second one I read but didnt love at all, resented the fact it was so big and I had to lug it around everywhere! Stand by the first on being good, not much to it but a good long entertaining read...keep you wondering who'd end up doing what and who'd get their come uppance.


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