Customer Reviews
Not for everyone. - By: V. Millinship, 02 Dec 2008 
I personallly loved this book. It is not a particularly (if at alll) 'intellectual' book - it is a romance & thriller novel that spans so many pages it manages to find itself wound up as a tome of a book.
Nevertheless, if you are going on a trip or find yourself needing something to read, give this a try. It is not as difficult as it may appear, and, quite fun!
late nights and sore thumbs - By: K. Davies, 01 Dec 2008 
Never read a Ken novel before... but this book ...hardback hence(sore thumbs)... had me spellbound ... the people were with me alll day.... until my next fix...I worried for them, laughed with them & wanted to run on several occasions... a fantasic read.. The Pillars of the Earth
Great book but please check page numbers - By: P. Pritchard, 27 Nov 2008 This is an absolutely fantastic book which I borrowed from a friend some years ago. Having recently read the follow up (World without End - brilliant too!), I reallly felt that I had to re-read Pillars of the Earth. If you order this book, before reading please check the page numbering. I have just reached page 464 & going onto the next page, the storyline did not seem to be making any sense! I then realised that the next page was actuallly 561. After checking the rest of the page numbering, the book continued up to 608, with the next page after that being 513 (hence missing pages 464-513). Not Amazon's fault at alll - how could they know that the printers have got it wrong - but I am now bereft as I can't continue the story until I get a new copy. I may well have the only rogue copy, but I would hate anyone of you to start reading this book & get to the stage where you can't continue. Please check the page numbering first before you start reading.
A Novelty Masterpiece - By: M. Bryson, 25 Nov 2008 This is an AWESOME book, & the sequel "World Without End" is just as good. Although I loved the characters much better in Pillars. Prior Phillip is, no doubt, my favorite character, & I loathed William with so much passion everytime he popped up in the book I would get soo tense I found myself squeezing my book, I thought I was going to tear it up. I ended up getting a hardback anyway. Although Follett gets very descriptive in his books there were some places that I read in which I reallly didn't need to know the details. But I would have to say that this is one of the best books I've read. It would be cool if they made a film on this. For others who have read this book, I would also recommend the Matthew Shardlake novels by C.J. Sansom: Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, & Revelation; which I also think would make reallly good films.
By far his best - By: James A. Hicken, 14 Nov 2008 I find that alll of Ken Follett's other books - including World Without End - are simply "holiday reading". However Pillars of the Earth seems almost to have come from the pen of someone else. It is superb on many levels - & would certainly be in my top ten books ever. Thank you Ken!
