The Pillars of the Earth | 
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Category: EBooks
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1251 reviews
Sales Rank: 80
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Deluxe
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 976
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
ASIN: B000UZPI2U
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
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Product Description
"Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner," extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it is a beloved favorite of countless readers, standing as a testament to Follett's unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. A spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect-a man divided in his soul...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother.
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 I really don't know why I enjoyed this so much... August 29, 2008
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.
Wonderful read August 28, 2008
Amazing book. Extremely engrossing, although the first 100 pages are slower than most, the next 800+ pages fly by.
 Worst book I've read in a long time August 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Review: Pillars of the Earth August 25, 2008
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.
Drivel August 24, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
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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