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A review by silentsipher
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
2.0
A very begrudging 2 of 5 stars, and even then only barely.
Everything about this book is one-dimensional. The plot, the writing, the characters, their motives. There's no depth, there's no complexity. Good characters are good. Bad characters are bad. Motivations are all singular in nature and all anyone does it take action towards their one singular motivation.
It's all very basic and pedestrian and at times exhaustingly tedious. It gets a second star because everything wraps up nicely in the end, and sure, you get a bit of a sense that you've seen this small part of the world move across decades, but I can't really say the journey was all that enjoyable.
Everything about this book is one-dimensional. The plot, the writing, the characters, their motives. There's no depth, there's no complexity. Good characters are good. Bad characters are bad. Motivations are all singular in nature and all anyone does it take action towards their one singular motivation.
It's all very basic and pedestrian and at times exhaustingly tedious. It gets a second star because everything wraps up nicely in the end, and sure, you get a bit of a sense that you've seen this small part of the world move across decades, but I can't really say the journey was all that enjoyable.