Pillars of the Earth
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- aikish12
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Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett does a masterful job of creating a believable setting and populating it with believable male characters. The novel follows the construction of a cathedral in 12th century England.
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I enjoy books about this era - medieval history.
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Fantastic book and IMO still his best but the mini series was a sad disappointment - personally I watched maybe about half and gave up. Read the book and forget about the miniseries would be my advice. I love all his books to be honest but I have a special place for Pillars.
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I love detailed historical fiction, based around real events as this was, starting with the sinking of the White Ship.
Am interested in OP's comment that the male characters were believable - to me, the female characters were too
I enjoyed the mini series too and I enjoyed the sequel World Without End - but it is not nearly as good as Pillars.
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For as long as the book was, I do feel though that the ending came about so quickly. I found myself questioning who the characters were and what they represented. Even though it came about sort of rushed, I feel good about the ending and there was good closure. The evil ones got what they had coming.
I've come to know some of these characters so well over the past few months that I will miss them. But, on to other (hopefully shorter) books. 4.5/5
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Pillars has all the characters with believable flaws, the heroes aren't perfect people and the villians have motives, like jealousy etc and redeeming features - they are not just born intrinsically and wholly bad - World without End has unrealistic all-evil villians and that really lets the book down.
It doesn't come across as a real story about real people.
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