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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yep, I got about a third of the way in and have tabled it....just didn't hold my interest, though it was well written and I could see others be very interested in it.
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I have read both "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End" - a sequel but set a couple of hundred years later. I too was disappointed in them after lots of high recommendations. I also found the second one to be almost a carbon copy of the first - same character set-ups, same incredibly evil villain type, hero a brilliant young man who can solve the apparently insoluble architectural problems, and so on.
I think the stories per se are good enough to keep people reading, but I found the characters very two-dimensional. Not books I am keeping - they have gone to the charity shop.
However, that's just my opinion, and I'm sure some things I think are terrific wouldn't do anything at all for others!
