Christy's review
World Without End
by Ken Follett
I have to agree - I wouldn't give it just one star; it's still enjoyable - but, essentially, this is the SAME BOOK! Names have been changed, destinations changed, but it's the same story and feels like a cheat.
Christy's review
World Without End by Ken Follett
Christy's review
rating:
recommended for: ONLY extremely bored people with no capacity for long term memory
The Pillars of the Earth was pretty good, but WWE is supposed to be a sequel... However, WWE seems to be a 1000 page snorefest after the first book. Perhaps if I had read them 18 years apart... then I would not have minded that WWE is a plagiarized (by the same author) copy of TPOTE. They have the same plot, same polar characters (no one is reasonable, they are all so totally overboard in every description), same activities, same cads, same villians, same love story... Same everything... But the characters all have new names. So, if you decide to read them... Skip 18 years before reading the sequel, which takes place in the same town as TPOTE 200 years later. If you wait 18 years, the book might seem fresh instead of boring, annoying, unoriginal and tedious. I kept wanting people to die just so I would not have to read another word about them. If I did not have this incessant need to complete books, I would have just thrown it on the floor and never picked it up again.
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I have to agree - I wouldn't give it just one star; it's still enjoyable - but, essentially, this is the SAME BOOK! Names have been changed, destinations changed, but it's the same story and feels like a cheat.