The Pillars of the Earth

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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: It's the best book I will ever read! I love it I wish it never ended.. Thank You Follet for giving the world such a great book to read I enjoed every secound with it ...

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Summary: Wish it was longer....1000 pages is not enough!!
Review: Without doubt, one of the best Historical Fiction books I have ever read. I was very disappointed when I was finished and quickly turned back to the beginning and started to read it again. This should be made into a mini-series or even a feature film. EXCELLENT

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Summary: FOLLET'S MASTERPIECE
Review: "Pillars of the Earth" is undoubtedly Ken Follet's masterpiece. Utilizing 12th century medieval England as a backdrop, Follet weaves an engrossing tale heavy-laden with passionate romance, suspenseful intrigue, and unexpected plot twists

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Summary: Amazing
Review: Absolutely the best book I have ever read!! Fascinating details about life in 12th century England intertwined in an epic saga of love, life, deceit, hardship, faith and loyalty. Corruption and hypocrisy in the church is rampant, with powerful men buying their "salvation" by bribing the clergy with favors, etc. Excellent!! Definitely Follett's best book by far

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Summary: Wonderful! I fell in love with it!
Review: I always love reading a series of historical adventures just like this book. It is a start of your another journey followed a great scale and various characters and excithing adventures. Please take a rest while you are into it over numerous nights!!!

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Summary: History, Adventure, and Intrigue!
Review: I loved this book from start to finish. There are a lot of pages in this book, but I wouldn't call it long (it was too good). This is the second best book I have ever read (Kane and Able can't be beat). Read it soon

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Summary: What can be better than history with sex and suspense?
Review: Ken Follett, known as a master of the spy genre, outdoes himself in this historical suspense novel of 12th Century England. While we learn about the amazing "technological prowess" that enables man to soar to the skies, we are introduced to wonderfully passionate characters who endure cliffhanger after cliffhanger. The book is lengthy, seeming to contain half a dozen of Follett's usual wonderful reads all in one volume

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Summary: Excellent story, interesting insight into life in the 12th c
Review: I agree with what has pretty much been said in the other reviews. After reading the book, I looked up the era in history in Paul Johnson's "The Offshore Islanders" and Winston Churchill's "History of the English People". This little bit of research would have been well worth having before starting the book. Anyhow, it is clear that Follett has done his research very well

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Summary: My favorite Follett.
Review: Have read all Follett books and this is my clear favorite.

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Summary: Alive.........tangible
Review: This is a masterpiece, a magnificent piece of history, architecture and supposed fiction. It was so real to me that I refuse to believe that it wasn't a true story. The characters gushed dimension; they enabled me to reach out and live among them in medieval England. In a bad to mediocre book, the span of time narrated in Pillars- would have made a monumental drag. In Pillars-, it could be called nothing less than an epic