Customer Review: I read "Pillars of the Earth" during the Summer 1991; its plot and characters bled into my life that summer. I carried them around no matter where I went. I so LOVED this novel. When "World Without End" came out, I was delighted, but decided to wait for the paperback (reading a hardbound book that... more info
Customer Review: The Pillars of the Earth is by turns scholarly and a guilty pleasure. If you ever wanted to know a host of architectural data about European cathedrals, it's there. The information about the cathedrals would be a cinematographer's dream. You can easily visualize the sweep and scope of England's... more info
Customer Review: An interesting glimpse of life in England 1860 through turn of the century. Typical Follett with obvious predictability, however, gripping with quick twists.
Customer Review: "Eye of the Needle" is the novel that got me hooked on the suspense genre. This World War II thriller set in London and then a remote island off the coast of Great Britain is rich with spy lore, intrigue, fact-based characters, and features some of the most sizzling scenes ever depicted in a spy... more info
Customer Review: A friend of mine continuously praises Ken Follett's work, and used book store inventory being as limited as it is, this was the most interesting Follett book I could find the one time I looked. There is no need to discuss this book in depth, as that would mislead anyone reading this review into... more info
I've enjoyed Ken Follett's past books, and being interested in this time period specifically I thought this book would be a natural for me. Not so...
I found most of the characters unsympathetic to just downright pathetic. Feliks was the best of the lot, but I wasn't sure what the... more info
Customer Review: Follett takes a set of not quite believable characters and blends them together into a story that flows smoothly. If you like espionage, intrigue and sex mixed in with a little Mafia, a touch of academia, a smidgen of nuclear threat, and the high seas, you'll probably like this book. As in so many... more info
Customer Review: A story of romance,intrigue and espionage takes place over the Atlantic on the Pan American Clipper at the onset of WWII. Follett's mixture of characters are wonderful; everything from aristocrats to theives and spies on this flight. People from all walks of life taking this flight for all different... more info
Customer Review: After reading _The Pillars of the Earth_ and its sequel, I was doing a little Web research (Wikipedia) on the Perot rescue and found out that Ken Follett had written a book about it: "What luck!" I thought. I thought wrong. The format of this book is so dry and dull it was almost unreadable. I... more info