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I'm with HarryT on Pillars of the Earth......loved it. I could agree that the characters aren't masterfully sketched, but I found them credible and the portrayal of life at the time was fascinating. If the book is at all accurate, people really lived close to the edge with a precarious food supply and capricious, unpredictable "rulers/lords". Who was it who wrote "Life is nasty, brutish and short"? That's what I kept thinking about when I was reading the book. It makes me very grateful for the relative stability of my life today.
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