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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Loved it! This book sustained my interest from start to finish and considering how long it is, that's an achievement. It's even better than the 'Pillars of the Earth'. I just wish there was a third in the series.
Pathetic It's just a TV soap opera transported back to the Middle Ages and no account taken for different language, life style, beliefs. I found the main characters thoroughly boring as people, and even the working practices, such a joy in "Pillars of the Earth", were hardly developed or badly done. Ken Follet has lost at least one reader.
Exciting, compelling, a page-turner - even if we've seen it before I loved "Pillars" - and enjoyed "World", too. The historical details were fascinating, there was enough drama, love and violence to fill a bookshelf; it was probably too long, but Follett has a particular light touch that is able to sustain the reader's attention for the whole time. Indeed, there was nothing really wrong with the book. But though "World" has everything that made "Pillars" so successful, we have just seen it all before. For some of the characters, there were enough new subtleties that... more info
A gripping portrayal of 14th Century England Although a sequel to "Pillars of the Earth," this fast-paced novel is set so much further ahead in time that it is enjoyable in its own right. The intricate intertwining of the lives of the disparate characters is full of surprises, and this well-researched book gives a feel of the social and economic impact of the Black Death.
