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 AWESOME Sep 07, 2010
Thank you, Amazon, for the quick delivery & savings purchasing this book!!! Anyone who has read "The Pilars of the Earth" and thought nothing could be more captivating... read this one too! You will not be disappointed and again you will hate to see it end!!!
Just as Good Sep 07, 2010
I was a fan of Pillars and once I put it down, I picked up World Without End. It picks up in Kingsbridge 200 years later. I was just as enamored with the storyline and characters as I was in the first book. It was a page turner. If there was a third book, I'd have read it too!
 This is no "Pillars of the Earth" Sep 06, 2010
I thoroughly enjoyed "Pillars of the Earth," but this comes nowhere near the earlier work.
It is monotonous and predictable. The characters are one-sided to the point of stereotype. Their foibles and flaws, virtues and talents, problems and predicaments are often repetitious. Some of the many sexual scenes seem gratuitous fillers and impede the flow of the narrative.
A lengthy, boring work, it reads as if the author was paid by the word.
As If One Was There Sep 05, 2010
As always, Follett's story is filled with such detail one feels as if there. The 14th century was not a pleasant century; it contained a harsh societal hierarchy, was devasted by plague which lead to economic disasters and enobling of truly unqualified individuals, as we see in Ralph for one, and people were cruel to our 21st century ethos. The bright light of Caris and her long-time lover dim at times but is not thoroughly doused. The writing is riviting--I cared for the main characters from the first page--and read the book straight to the end. I had just finished "Timetravellers Guide to the 14th Century" and was in the middle of "A Distant Mirror" as I began "World Without End," making my immersion to the times total. I highly recommend this book for students/lovers of history.
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 for heavens sake Sep 03, 2010
After a nod to the middle ages, this schlockmeister keeps writing because he can and puts one sordid relationship and circumstance after another into a novel that has no time bounds really. Such machinations are found in every age. Must we really hear in detail how each couple came to have the relationship each has? There is no art to it. God help us close the book before we drive to the end just to see a handful of despicables come hopefully to a justly bad end. I fear he will ruin the middle ages for all of us. And now back to real life and a breath of air.
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