We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. I must confess-- I am addicted to these Ken Follett novels. I finished World Without End and had to pick up A Column of Fire immediately. I'm also going to get to his Century trilogy at some point. These books are bloodstained historical soap operas and I just can't get enough.Follett knows how to create exactly the right amount of drama and set it to the gory backdrop of history. I've always loved ...

Here’s a book that completely mirrors the first in the series. Here’s a book that follows the same narrative progression, character development, and resolution as its predecessor. Its characters bear a striking resemblance to their ancestors in terms of personality and role within the story; yet, despite the repetition, Ken Follett delivers a story as engrossing as *The Pillars of the Earth*. What's there to complain about? This is one of those rare cases where more of the same isn’t a bad thin...

As a long-time fan of Ken Follett and this series, I eagerly returned to the wonders of Kingsbridge and everything the author has to say about this place across centuries. I've used my previous review as a foundation, adding some new insights after this re-read:After a considerable hiatus, Ken Follett returns to the series with a second epic tome, building on the Kingsbridge Cathedral theme established in *Pillars of the Earth*. The story is now set in the mid-1300s, two centuries after Tom Buil...

5 stars for Ken Follett's *World Without End*. This is seriously one of my all-time favorite books... I was completely mesmerized by the characters and everything they went through. It's a MUST-read, period! If you're looking for epic historical fiction, this is it. It's a long book, and it's set hundreds of years in the past, but if you can handle the more primitive aspects of the time period, the multiple plots and subplots will absolutely blow you away. Just amazing. I kept getting so angry...

Ken Follett's *World Without End* is written in the third person, but thankfully, it doesn't suffer from the choppiness that plagues some third-person narratives. I absolutely loved watching the characters grow and mature throughout the story. They face incredible hardships – war, death, shattered dreams, the Black Death – but they never stop fighting, never lose hope. It's a real testament to the human spirit.I was fascinated by the insights into medieval medicine and the beliefs surrounding cu...

Two centuries after *Pillars of the Earth*, the folks of Kingsbridge are at it again. The cathedral from the first book is falling apart – part of the roof caved in, the bridge is gone, and the prior's pushing up daisies. And of course, the constant power plays continue...Okay, I walked right into this one. After inhaling *Dinocalypse Now* in a single morning, my girlfriend asked if I'd really read a whole book in four hours. I said yes, and she challenged me with *World Without End*, saying it ...

World Without End, a follow-up to Ken Follett’s surprise bestseller Pillars of the Earth, swipes a page straight from the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure playbook. A ragtag bunch of dull characters – possibly even dumber and less believable than Bill & Ted – hop into a time machine and zip back to the year 1327 and the village of Kingsbridge… Hold on. Wait a minute. There aren't any time machines? The characters in World Without End are supposed to be actual 14th-century people? Right. I approa...

Get ready, because I'm about to unleash a full-on gush geyser all over this review. "World Without End" by Ken Follett was absolutely fantastic and completely did it for me. I loved every single one of its 1000+ pages, and honestly, I wouldn't have minded if it were even longer (TWSS).After utterly adoring The Pillars of the Earth (that’s right, I lurved it!), I had high hopes for this sequel, and let me tell you, "World Without End" was more than up to the challenge.I was craving a good, meaty ...

In theory, this book should be on my 'Sucked' shelf. It's a tale of the Middle Ages, the gross injustices of the time, and it truly amounts to a thousand-page Medieval soap opera. It doesn't have much to do with its predecessor, *The Pillars of the Earth*, except that it's in the same location 200 years later, with characters that are "descendants" of the *Pillars* characters. There's none of the complex building and architectural aspects found in *The Pillars of the Earth*, the graphic sex and ...

This "companion" novel to Follett's 1989 classic The Pillars of the Earth is set in the same community, 200 years later. I'd been excited about it ever since I heard it was coming out – maybe *too* excited, because **World Without End** just didn't live up to my expectations. As a huge Ken Follett fan, I was really hoping for another masterpiece. The first half of the book seemed a sort-of ho-hum retread of "Pillars". In place of Jack Builder, we have his look-alike great-great-great-many-times...