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The Pillars of the Earth | 
 enlarge | Author: Ken Follett
Creator: George Ralph
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Unabridged
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy Used: $11.99
You Save: $27.96 (70%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1251 reviews
Sales Rank: 117098
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 20
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 6.4 x 3.4
ISBN: 1590862910
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781590862919
ASIN: 1590862910
Publication Date: September 28, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Overall in very good condition/20 tapes in very good condition/Case in good condition with some shelf wear
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Product Description
The Pillars of the Earth sweeps through four decades of 12th Century England drawing the listener into the raw, flamboyant middle ages. It is a shining saga of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty. Not-so-noble knights, righteous heroes, valiant heroines and both virtuous and immoral men of God highlight this story. They manipulate, and are in turn manipulated by, the political turmoil and unrest between the reigns of Henry I and Henry II.
The listener will cheer on the fates of the virtuous and hiss at the evil-doers. A truly fascinating story that the listener will never forget.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1246 more reviews...
 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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