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Originally Posted by Taltarzac
Anyone watching Starz 8 episode Pillars of the Earth? Is the book different from the series? The series seems to have a lot of blood, sweat and tears with a lot of sex and violence thrown in.
I remember trying to read the book about a decade ago but getting rather bored by it.
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Talt,
You love books and movies and I enjoy reading your 'reviews'. But have you ever listened to a book on cd? As a 1000 page tome, Pillars would have turned me off, but I enjoy audio books and Ken Follet's work, so I took a chance on it - all 20some cds.
It was excellent. I thought the reader added a great deal to the story and it was over well before I wanted it to be. When the sequel, 'World Without End' was published, my wife and I laughed that it was 35 cd's!! We started in New York, took intermission in TV then got to cd 31 when we got back home one night at 10 pm. We left everything in the car, sat by the stereo and listened to the last 4 cd's.
We only hope Follet lives long enough to write a trequel.
And if you're not convinced about audio books, try Ed Herman reading Scott Turow's "Ordinary Heroes". Then Turow's 'Presumed Innocent', followed immediately by the new sequel, 'Innocent'.......