Title: One star is too generous.
Product review: I am amazed at how many glowing reviews this book has. It is poorly researched, filled with anachronisms, and it would have been too long with half as many pages, the characters are entirely flat; frankly I could go on forever. I tried to like the story and the characters, but I had to draw the line at four errors in fewer than 300 pages. An earlier reviewer suggested William Manchester's "A World Lit Only By Fire" and I whole-heartedly agree. Manchester's book is far more informative if learning about the Middle Ages is your goal. Wikipedia is more accurate, as unreliable as a source as it is. I should have known better that Ken Follett is not worth my time when I could not finish "Jackdaws". I am certainly not reading "A World Without End" or anything else of his for that matter. He is forever on my "Banned List".Another book I'd strongly recommend is Tim Willocks' "The Religion", which is exponentially better than "The Pillars of the Earth".
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