Title: Dumbing down the literate among us
Product review: Let me keep this short. Read the review by Ash of Phoenix as it says what I would otherwise want to share with prospective readers about this moronic tome.The only thing more boring than the 1000 pages of this dreary, predictable, and tiresomely inaccurate "historical" novel is the pompous self-congratulatory preface by Follett.In it he describes the creative whim that prompted him to deviate from his usual pulp fiction, and he thanks the readers who've allowed this book to gather its cult following. Cult following? Well, okay. I suppose legions of people with the cult(ivated) tastes of a sixth grader . . .I looked at Amazon because I was curious to see what "people who bought this book also bought" and would not have surprised to see comic books and Cosmo magazine on the list.
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