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Review title: Is this for adolescent boys?
Product review: After trying to read Ken Follet's claptrap tome "Pillars of the Earth", I was steered to this book by an Amazon reviewer. Unfortunately, it's not much better. I can't understand why these books get such rave reviews. The characters are flat, stereotypical, and predictable. The writing is at a 7th or 8th grade level. The plot is stale and arbitrary. But ooh! It's violent and there's lots of rape and battles, so it must be interesting. Yawn.For the record, I gave up on page 43, by which time the recently-introduced villain Sir Simon had been described as replying "sourly" FIVE times in as many pages. Can't these authors afford editors?Garbage.Follow up: I picked this book up again when there was nothing else to read in the house, during a blizzard. It was still unbearably bad.
