Title: Nothing good to say about it except it was long
Product review: At last I completed the 32 discs of Pillars of the Earth last night. What a relief! That was one really badly written book. No character development. Hackneyed writing. Repetitive descriptions. Plot plods along with occasional forays into sex and descriptive violence. It was nice of Follet to describe a bit about cathedral building which I think was the pretense for creating this dull lump of verbiage. Never knew that 13th century social values were so similar to those of the 20th century, but I guess the non-fiction I have read or courses I have listened to did not have their ear to the reality of the early middle ages as Follet did. Now I can move on to a well-written novel -- what a pleasure! [As a contrast to Follet's wooden style I have been reading William Trevor's Lucy Gault. What a different approach to storytelling!]
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