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Originally Posted by Zurbaran1
Give it time! It is an absolutely fantastic book and you won't regret it. It really takes off and once you get into it you won't put it down. Follet took 17 ot 18 years to write the sequel, "World Without End", which is also worth reading
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Re: Pillars of the Earth
Still working through it (Wasn't able to read it for a while but back on it).
At about 450 pages and it has gotten better. It took the better part of 250 pages to actually get interesting.
One thing that I noticed and find kinda stupid/annoying is this authors obsession with degrading women/anomosity towards women and how he gets
too into it and sex scenes, like I am reading a dirty article out of a Hustler magazine. In one rape scene in the book it comes across like the author is glorifying it. It is one thing to set the tone of how men and women are viewed unequal during a certain period of time (this takes place in the middle-ages), but he takes to to a point that it actually takes you out of the novel and you find yourself saying "what is this authors damage?". It stands out enough that it kinda hurts the book overall IMO.
I have heard alot of fantastic things about this book, so I will continue on to the very end.
My next book on deck is a pretty hardcopy of War and Peace I just picked up..yay!