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Originally Posted by HarryT
He's not going to win any "Mr. Nice Guy" awards, but "unrealistically evil"? No - he certainly didn't come across that way to me. I found it to be an utterly absorbing book; one of the few that I "couldn't put down".
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Ok, can you mention one passage in the book where William is portrayed in a somewhat positive light?
I mean, we get that he's a bad person after all the beating and raping and burning down villages and killing of local peasants. Why would Follett find it necessary to write the scene where he tortures cats on top of that. I don't want to be spoonfed by the author when I read, and I feel he does just that.
Same thing with the narrative. It gets so repititive that it becomes a cliché. How many times are things looking up, just when the ruthless evil of Valeran and William yet again destroys everything, and we are back to square one?
I'm well aware that a lot of people enjoyed the book, and that's all good.
I'm just not particularly impressed with neither the characterisation nor the narrative structure of the book myself.