5/25/2023 0 Comments Books like pillars of the earth![]() ![]() So successful was the book that it’s easy to overlook just how peculiar it is.* There’s a reason why the book is borderline respectable: Follett explores medieval culture and society with a level of detail that rubs up on the border between the novelistic and the encyclopediac. ![]() The Pillars of the Earth turned out to be Follett’s most critically and commercially successful book. It was by no means clear that his audience, who had eagerly lapped up the cocktail of sex, violence and Nazis that Follett had perfected in The Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, would be as interested in a thousand-odd page love letter to medieval cathedral-building. Follett’s stock in trade was the potboiler, the beach read. This understandably made his publishers a little nervous. Sometime in the late 80s, a successful spy novelist named Ken Follett got tired of thrillers and decided to try his hand at historical novels. Don't be confused, though: the book still has, like, tons of dirty bits. ![]()
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