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Originally Posted by Luffy
Allow me to butt in. I haven't read PoTE, but Fall of Giants is an ordinary book in the opinion of the Goodreads group of which I am part of. We're reading it actually and we're nearly halfway through, and the book is fruity and melodramatic, and historically inaccurate. I don't intend to read the sequels. Nothing against people who like this book however, and if you enjoyed FoG more power to you.
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I read
Fall of Giants earlier this year and agree that it is fruity, melodramatic, not to mention cliched. At times I was amused by the predictable stereotypes. In fact, I have often been amused while reading passages that Follett relates in dead earnestness.
Then I read
Winter of the World and purchased
Edge of Eternity on the day it was released, although I haven't yet read it. But I will. Because Ken Follett is my guilty pleasure and I loved
Fall of Giants. Sometimes all I ask is that a writer entertain me, whether or not it is intentional.