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Originally Posted by HarryT
I was interested to read your views of this. I think it's a wonderful book. Yes, it's a brutal portrayal of life, but for most people at that time life was short and brutal, with an average life expectancy of less than 30 years. I don't personally feel that Mr. Follett has introduced too much gratuitous "suffering" into the book at all. He writes from a knowledgeable position: he is an expert on the time period and its architecture.
Guess it shows that we all see these things differently.
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There are a few readers on Goodreads who feel Follet doesn't use the research he undertakes for his books. I read Fall Of Giants and there he bent History just for kicks. The life expectancy is so because of high mortality rate among babies.