Title: A little too much
Product review: I like historical fiction and have read all of the brilliant books of Patrick O'Brian and Ellis Peters. I have never read Follett before and picked up this book on a friends recommendation.It's pleasant enough to read. I noticed that a lot of reviewers found the book to be informative concerning cathedral building, but there is much less information here than in the great childrens' book on cathedrals by David Macaulay.However, the feature of the book that started to alienate me was the gratuitous sex. It's like the author wrote the book without any sex scenes, and then went back and inserted them every thirty or so pages to keep the reader interested. Rarely do they set a scene or further the narrative. And in all of them, the participants have sex five times in an hour and the women always have an uncountable number of multiple orgasms.It isn't offensive by any means - it's just like a car with too much chrome added on.
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