So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Character development in this book is powerful enough to keep me fascinated from the first page to the last, though the story lines hold their own. The book begins with a foreign French jongleur and a dark and stunning English witch who cause scandal and uproar at a hanging. It takes the entire book and two subsequent generations to work out their story. At the center of it all, Kingsbridge Cathedral slowly rises, and pulls the lives of its parishioners out of the muck of the Medieval era. As the walls reach for the sky, so, too do the aspirations of those nearby, which causes not only joy and prosperity but too often misery, ruin, and death.
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The Pillars of the Earth (Oprah's Book Club Selection #60) by Ken Follett
Crystal Trulove, January 2, 2011
Character development in this book is powerful enough to keep me fascinated from the first page to the last, though the story lines hold their own. The book begins with a foreign French jongleur and a dark and stunning English witch who cause scandal and uproar at a hanging. It takes the entire book and two subsequent generations to work out their story. At the center of it all, Kingsbridge Cathedral slowly rises, and pulls the lives of its parishioners out of the muck of the Medieval era. As the walls reach for the sky, so, too do the aspirations of those nearby, which causes not only joy and prosperity but too often misery, ruin, and death.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)