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- ISBN13: 9780451224996
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Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Planet is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Planet, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Lacking End.
Unabridged edition read by John LeeAmazon.com Review
Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Planet is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Planet, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Lacking End.
In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Planet, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed–”it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you” (Chicago Tribune)–and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel.
World Lacking End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Planet. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of like and despise, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new thoughts–about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the ancient ways fiercely battle persons with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race–the Black Death.
Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Lacking End breathes new life into the epic past novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful leader writing at the top of his craft.
Questions for Ken Follett
Amazon.com: What a phenomenon The Pillars of the Planet has become. It was a bestseller when it was published in 1989, but it’s only gained in popularity since then–it’s the kind of book that people are incredibly passionate about. What has it been like to see it grow an audience like that?
Follett: At first I was a small disappointed that Pillars sold not much better than my previous book. Now I reflect that was because it was a small different and people were not sure how to take it. As the years went by and it became more and more well loved, I felt kind of on the right side. And I was very grateful to readers who spread the news by word of mouth.
Amazon.com: Pillars was a departure for you from your very successful modern thrillers, and after writing it you returned to thrillers. Did you reflect you’d ever come back to the medieval period? What brought you to do so after 18 years?
Follett: The main reason was the way people talk to me about Pillars. Some readers say, “It’s the best book I’ve ever read.” Others tell me they have read it two or three times. I got to the point where I really had to find out whether I could do that again.
Amazon.com: In World Lacking End you return to Kingsbridge, the same town as the previous book, but two centuries later. What has changed in two hundred years?
Follett: In the time of Prior Philip, the monastery was a powerful force for excellent in medieval society, development education and technological advance. Two hundred years later it has become a wealthy and conservative institution that tries to hold back change. This leads to some of the major conflicts in the tale.
Amazon.com: World Lacking End features two strong-willed female characters, Caris and Gwenda. What room to maneuver did a medieval English town provide for a woman of ambition?
Follett: Medieval people paid lip-service to the thought that women were second-rate, but in practice women could be merchants, craftspeople, abbesses, and queens. There were restrictions, but strong women regularly establish ways around them.
Amazon.com: When you sit down to imagine yourself into the 14th century, what is the greatest leap of imagination you have to make from our time to theirs? Is there something we can learn from that age that has been lost in our own time?
Follett: It’s hard to imagine being so dirty. People bathed very rarely, and they must have smelled pretty terrible. And what was kissing like in the time before toothpaste was invented?
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Never received it in the mail. Bought at Walmart and will let you know later how it was. I can’t wait to start. Loved the first book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I marvel what Ken Follet would have written if he learned that all religions have the same source History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1). History of religions looks as follows: the pre-Christian period (before the XI century and JC), Bacchic Christianity (XI-XII century, before and after JC), JC Christianity (XII-XVI century) and its subsequent mutations into Orthodox Christianity, the Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, and so on.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
“World Lacking End” seemed endless by mid-book, repetitive, embedded
research facts worked into the tale with clumsy style; and, what’s with the use of the term “shagged” from the mouth of one character within the narrative time-frame, 12th Century? Maybe? Nevertheless, I will slug
it out to the end. And…..
Judge it or not, during one recent afternoon read, my copy of
“Pillars of The Planet” fell out of a bookcase in the living room! Wooo!
“Disappointed”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I sent the audiobook “World Lacking End” by Ken Follet to a name as a gift. The recipient chose to return it and exchange it for something else he wanted. As a replacement for of crediting the recipient for the return you credited me (the giver) for the return. This embarrassed the recipient and caused me to have to jump in and give him yet another gift and smoothe over the situation. I was pleased to learn that I could email a gift card. This is very convenient and supplied a gift that allows the recipient more choice. You need to revamp your return practices to avoid this situation in the future. By the way, rating the product I originally gave is beside the point. The product quality itself was never in question.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I too am a huge fan of PILLARS and was not expecting a sequel
I have just ongoing WORLD WITHOUT END and wish there was a glossary of the characters
I am already having distress keeping track of all these people, over 200 I heard
has anyone made of list of who they are?
thanks
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5