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    <body><![CDATA[I gave up on this book at page 252 of 600. The very beginning was pretty interesting, and I found the character of a young man essentially raising his baby alone (with his remote wife) as a successful medieval serf in pastoral Spain very compelling. I liked the stuff through the pottery workshop, to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41609611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[É uma leitura bonita mas depois de se ler 'O' livro sobre este assunto (&quot;Os Pilares da Terra&quot;, de Ken Follett) e como não tem uma tão grande densidade de pormenores como esse, sentimos que ficamos um pouco aquém do que queríamos. <br/>É assim como se fosse uma versão mais simplific...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31349792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My parents gave me this Spanish-language book for my birthday, and I have to hand it to them for gifting me such a great combination of two of my favorite interests: fiction and history.  The novel is set in 14th century Catalunia, in Barcelona in particular, and though driven by strong characters a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2611096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No leí este libro, lo viví... fue mientras trabajaba en la galería de arte y en los ratos libres adelantaba mi lectura en plenas calles del Barrio Gótico. Una forma muy didáctica, interesante e inteligente de conocer historia sobre Cataluña. Al principio no quería animarme a leerlo porque cre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38693797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the book in English and perhaps it was not that good in translation.  However, as a person who absolutely loved &quot;The Pillars of the Earth&quot; by Ken Follett, I thought that this was just a poor copy of the epic novel.  &quot;Cathedral of the Sea&quot; is worth a read if you like histor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39861072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Impresionante obra narrativa, en la que se puede encarnizar la vida de Arnau Estanyol, una vida llena de altibajos y aventuras trepidantes te mantienen atado al libro hasta que terminas la ultima pagina. <br/>Durante todo ese tiempo la historia de trasfondo es la construccion de la catedral de Barc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19871557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this because it's set in Barcelona where Marc is from and his brother and mother have already read it in spanish and said it was worth reading.<br/><br/>It is set in 12th century Catalonia and follows the story of Arnau born to a runaway landless serf who becomes a port worker haulin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50051390">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a beautiful novel about freedom and friendship! The story is about Barcelona in the Middle Ages.a visual story written to be read breathlessly.This book is extremely compelling to the last page.<br/><br/>A masterful epic of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti-Semitism and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78612145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aright, this is the typical overpriced book available at Sanborne's, Mexican vendor of English books.  It's pretty obviously geared toward the male, travel-buff.  That being said, it's better than the average Guy adventure book.  The lead character is like a 14th century Forest Gump, only he's not s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67535270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Medieval Spain's caste system can't keep a good man down in this absorbing epic, a Spanish-language bestseller. Arnau Estanyol, son of a fugitive peasant, starts out in 14th-century Barcelona as a lowly porter who carries stone blocks to a cathedral construction site and ends up a rich moneylender w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56951447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Usualmente soy un tanto escéptico cuando se trata de best-sellers, pero este libro ha sido la excepción. Se trata de una novela histórica situada en la Barcelona medieval, en la que la vida del personaje se desarrolla de manera paralela a la construcción de Santa María del Mar, la catedral del ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15173160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not bring myself to give this two stars, meaning it was merely OK.<br/><br/>The book was a best seller in Spain, with proclaiming Falcones Spain's answer to Dan Brown. (He is not that good - and not that bad either.) I can see why the book was so popular, for the author, A Catalan, wrote a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74742436">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitivamente es una de las mejores historias noveladas o novelas históricas que he leído. Muy recomendable.<br/><br/>Desde que la conocí, en 1998, me quedé enamorada de la ciudad de Barcelona, de su ritmo, su aire, sus olores, sus formas... Leer este libro es revivir en muchos sentidos aque...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19802497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a non-historical fiction reader like myself, this book was a little tough at first. I found it difficult to keep some of the names and places straight. But, by about 1/4 of the way through, I found myself really sucked-in and caring about the main characters. And pretty soon, the travelogue aspe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75660908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I waded through this entire book, wondering if it would get better. I don't even want to look and see how many pages it was.<br/>I wonder if the Spanish original was lovely--maybe so, but the English translation was clunky, filled with plain, boring cliche's and it felt like it must have been ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43089712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story is a good listen -- not the Pillars of the Earth or Agincourt, but it is still an interesting listen. I found the slices of ordinary life in medieval Spain and the process of the Inquisition particularly worth the listen. <br/><br/>It's the narrator that really shines in this book. I kno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73577893">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The general concept of this book was quite similar to Ken Follett's &quot;Pillars of the Earth&quot; in that it was set in 13th-14th century Europe.  Though the story was enjoyable, it just wasn't as good as Follett's and at certain points I thought Falcones got a little too caught up in the histori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66223701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As is my preference with books translated into English or depicting life in a non English speaking culture, I listened to this book on CD. Hearing the story left me able to envision the world of 14th Century Barcelona without having to struggle with pronunciation of foreign words and names.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57024904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cataluña and Barcelona have always been unique. Its inhabitants extremly proud of who they are and where they live. A young boy and his father must fleed the farm the family has worked for many generations and go to Barcelona and hide. Having to live in hidding Arnau and his father Bernat, start a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34365250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was seriously overrated.  Honestly, I wouldn't have bothered to finish it, except that I had a very long trip and nothing else to read.  First of all, I found the translation very awkward.  It started to flow better towards the end of the book, but, especially at the beginning, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25297019">more...</a>]]></body>
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