Title: Follet is losing it
Product review: This book had some interesting passages, but is in dire need of a competent editor. The ~1,000 pages should have been cut in half. Full of info-dump narratives about building a cathedral, and so on. The author's research floods too much of this work of fiction. Follet should have paid more attention to Hemingway's advice about leaving something out when he knows about it.The book lacks a strong plot-line and just rambles along episodically over several decades in time. Worse, Follet never misses the chance to tell the reader what his characters are thinking and doing -- often several times, just in case we're too dull to catch it the first time.The villains are two-dimensional, and, coincidentally, two of them repent and become humble monks in the ending. Unbelievable. Try "The Man from St. Petersburg" or just about any early Follet work instead of this one.
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