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World Without End
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 2
- ナレーター: John Lee
- シリーズ: The Kingsbridge Novels
- 再生時間: 45 時間 34 分
- カテゴリー: ミステリー・スリラー・サスペンス, スリラー・サスペンス
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Edge of Eternity
- The Century Trilogy, Book 3
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 36 時間 51 分
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Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution - and rock and roll.
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The Pillars of the Earth
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 1
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 40 時間 13 分
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The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother.
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Found
- 著者: Erin Kinsley
- ナレーター: Lucy Paterson
- 再生時間: 9 時間 4 分
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When 11-year-old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. Especially as the police, under massive pressure, have no answers. But months later Evan is unexpectedly found, frightened and refusing to speak. His loving family realise life will never be the same again. DI Naylor knows that unless those who took Evan are caught, other children are in danger. And with Evan silent, she must race against time to find those responsible....
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A Column of Fire
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 3
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 30 時間 19 分
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Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in turmoil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty and love, and Ned soon finds himself on the opposite side from the girl he longs to marry, Margery Fitzgerald. Then Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen and all of Europe turns against England.
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Fall of Giants
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 30 時間 36 分
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A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London.
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In Five Years
- A Novel
- 著者: Rebecca Serle
- ナレーター: Megan Hilty
- 再生時間: 6 時間 44 分
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Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend - the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content. But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man.
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- 投稿者: キャロル 日付: 2021/01/29
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Edge of Eternity
- The Century Trilogy, Book 3
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 36 時間 51 分
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Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution - and rock and roll.
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The Pillars of the Earth
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 1
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 40 時間 13 分
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The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother.
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Found
- 著者: Erin Kinsley
- ナレーター: Lucy Paterson
- 再生時間: 9 時間 4 分
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When 11-year-old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. Especially as the police, under massive pressure, have no answers. But months later Evan is unexpectedly found, frightened and refusing to speak. His loving family realise life will never be the same again. DI Naylor knows that unless those who took Evan are caught, other children are in danger. And with Evan silent, she must race against time to find those responsible....
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A Column of Fire
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 3
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 30 時間 19 分
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Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in turmoil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty and love, and Ned soon finds himself on the opposite side from the girl he longs to marry, Margery Fitzgerald. Then Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen and all of Europe turns against England.
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Fall of Giants
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 30 時間 36 分
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A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London.
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In Five Years
- A Novel
- 著者: Rebecca Serle
- ナレーター: Megan Hilty
- 再生時間: 6 時間 44 分
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Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend - the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content. But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man.
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- 投稿者: キャロル 日付: 2021/01/29
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The Shining
- 著者: Stephen King
- ナレーター: Campbell Scott
- 再生時間: 15 時間 50 分
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Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
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The Evening and the Morning
- Kingsbridge, Book 4
- 著者: Ken Follett
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 24 時間 19 分
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It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined.
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The Sins of the Father: Clifton Chronicles, Book 2
- 著者: Jeffrey Archer
- ナレーター: Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox
- 再生時間: 10 時間 7 分
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The second book in Jeffrey Archer’s highly acclaimed The Clifton Chronicles, The Sins of the Father takes the reader on a breath-taking journey from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan.The book opens in New York, 1939. Harry Clifton, under the new identity of Tom Bradshaw, finds himself arrested for first degree murder.
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The Shadow of the Wind
- 著者: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- ナレーター: Daniel Philpott
- 再生時間: 17 時間 33 分
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Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find.
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
- 著者: Abbi Waxman
- ナレーター: Emily Rankin
- 再生時間: 9 時間 3 分
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The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all - or mostly all - excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster!
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The Flatshare
- 著者: Beth O'Leary
- ナレーター: Carrie Hope Fletcher, Kwaku Fortune
- 再生時間: 10 時間 8 分
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Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rule book out the window....
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Magpie Murders
- Magpie Murders, Book 1
- 著者: Anthony Horowitz
- ナレーター: Allan Corduner, Samantha Bond
- 再生時間: 15 時間 48 分
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When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life. She's worked with the revered crime writer for years, and his detective, Atticus Pund, is renowned for solving crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. As Susan knows only too well, vintage crime sells handsomely. It's just a shame that it means dealing with an author like Alan Conway.... But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems.
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Only Time Will Tell
- Clifton Chronicles, Book 1
- 著者: Jeffrey Archer
- ナレーター: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox
- 再生時間: 12 時間 35 分
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The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international best-selling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, ‘I was told that my father was killed in the war’. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father really died, which will only lead him to question: who was his father?
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The Art of Choosing
- 著者: Sheena Iyengar
- ナレーター: Orlagh Cassidy
- 再生時間: 10 時間 32 分
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Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose? Sheena Iyengar's award-winning research reveals that the answers are surprising and profound.
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- 著者: John Carreyrou
- ナレーター: Will Damron
- 再生時間: 11 時間 36 分
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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start-up, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier.
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Death on the Nile
- Poirot
- 著者: Agatha Christie
- ナレーター: Kenneth Branagh
- 再生時間: 8 時間 13 分
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The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting’ nothing is ever quite what it seems....
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The Underground Railroad
- 著者: Colson Whitehead
- ナレーター: Bahni Turpin
- 再生時間: 10 時間 43 分
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.
あらすじ・解説
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed.
As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.
Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.
World Without End is followed by the third of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge novels, A Column of Fire.
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- Brodie
- 2011/05/08
Astounding!
If you are ready for a 40 hour plus epic that runs seemlessly through an ancient age then put this on your list. There are writers and epic writers. Many may achieve the former but to write a book of such length, interest, diversity and spiced with history and keep it flowing and connected takes a master craftsperson. It is not heavy or intellectual or complicated; it is a great yarn and I loved it.
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- Jacobus
- 2010/11/27
Meet modern characters in 14th centuary Britain
If their is one book that makes the words, "Historical fiction says more about the day and age in which the writer lives, than about the time in which it happens" ring true, it is "World without End." Caris and Merthin reminds you of Jack Jackson and Aliena, but the characters is a bit more tarnished and not so ethical in their ways. You meet the same priory, but in a different day and age. While Follett is able to contrast the Kingsbridge of "World without End" quite successfully with the one of "Pillars of the Earth," his characters have in my opinion a too modern feel. Feminist issues, the theodicy question and medical science are addressed with a 21st century ring to it. This makes the book at places unbelievable. Yet the intrigue and changes in the main characters keeps you spellbound enough to listen through it.
As with "Pillars of the Earth" John Lee does an excellent job in narrating the story. I actually think that his narration has improved much since the previous book.
The book will not be everyone's cup of tea. For those who want to see a sequel to "Pillars of the Earth," this is it! Listen and enjoy it. However, if you're a bit of a purist of thoughts and practices of the time, this book might be found a bit much to stomach, Those who love good stories will enjoy it.
The book is strongly recommended to those who have fallen in love with story of "Pillars of the Earth." While not so good, its still a good book to listen.
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- Janine
- 2011/01/24
Engaging, absorbing, difficult to turn off...
Ken Follett's epic 'sequel' to Pillars of the Earth is engaging, absorbing, magnificently structured and wonderfully read by John Lee.
The downside of not being able to stop listening is that the repetition (necessary perhaps in a novel of this length) is more glaring than it might be to a reader not listening for hours and hours at a time.
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- mergra
- 2011/10/13
Nearly as good as Pillars
After listening to Pillars of the Earth (POE) I was avid to listen to this one. I think John Lee's narration is better in World Without End (WWE), his voice seemed more relaxed. I've read reviews of it elsewhere and these expressed a strong theme of the story being more like a soap opera, and objections to the frequent description of sex scenes, rape, violence etc. I can't say I agree with either of these criticisms, though I do agree that there is more of the latter in this book than in the previous one. There also seems to be more talking/scheming behind closed doors - I've interpreted this as a reflection of the changed times, after all, the book is set 200 years later and I'm sure that the level of fear about 'sinning' may have become more conscious, thus more verbalised than in POE. Further, the motivation toward accumulation of wealth and the justification for this (added to the growing distrust for the church) would mean that the scheming/scamming could be less 'secret' than 200 years beforehand. Anyway, all criticisms aside, I loved this book, just as I loved the previous one and I highly recommend it - particularly to those who have an interest in medieval history - it brings the period alive. Follett has a very candid and realistic approach to human nature; if you like that approach then this is the book for you!
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- Andrew
- 2013/02/04
Epic tale
Would you consider the audio edition of World Without End to be better than the print version?
I have never read the print version so unable to comment on a comparison.
What did you like best about this story?
Never a boring moment, fast paced.
Have you listened to any of John Lee’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Yes, John is a great performer, specially in this and Pillars of the Earth.
Any additional comments?
Do yourself a favour and listen to this and Pillars Of The Earth!
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- Heather
- 2012/09/17
Loved it!
Would you consider the audio edition of World Without End to be better than the print version?
John Lee is amazing! He does all the accents without fail. I don't normally read or listen to this sort of book but Ken Follet just has such a gift for story telling. I now feel as if I have so much insight into WW1 and the people who lived in that time. He made it come alive.I will read everything else he's written now, especially read by John Lee.
Which scene was your favorite?
I loved the story about the Russian brothers
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I didn't want it to end.
Any additional comments?
Read it if you are interested in History.
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- Anonymous User
- 2012/07/16
A worthy sequel to Pillars
You need to read Pillars of the Earth first. This sequel then starts a few hundred years after the end of Pillars and makes references to the characters and events in Pillars. The story however stands up on its own, and is a thrilling read from start to finish, just like the original.
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- Steve
- 2012/03/17
a totally riveting story
An audio book you can totally get immersed in, story great, narration great and you really feel as though you you are in the 14th century. This is the second in a series but you don't need to read the first to enjoy this.
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- Eleanor
- 2012/02/27
Wonderful book
The story was breathtaking in its scope. Kept you wanting more...and thankfully it was a lovely long book. But even so I did not want it to end. Makes you want to read more about this period of history, and also more from Ken Follett - highly recommended
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- Megan
- 2021/02/05
Excellent
I feel as if I have been on a journey. Wow. Absolutely a whirlwind into a time in a plague in 1350. Over six hundred years ago.
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- bex4ad
- 2011/03/15
Bereaved when it ended
This story has taken over my life. I listen to it in the car, when I'm running and when I'm cooking.
It was just as good as the first book and I got totally wrapped up in it. Nice to not get wrist strain from the paperback. Desperately seeking something to replace now - a big task!
I highly recommend this book. Very exciting and engaging.
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- Erika
- 2013/05/23
Disappointing and predictable
Although on the whole I enjoyed this audio book, I found the story rather predictable and in some respect a recast of Ken Follett's earlier book. The story was quite enjoyable in spite of being very predictable at times, however, it was greatly spoilt by some of the ridiculous and gratuitous sexual scenarios the author contrived and which at time's seemed to have no real place in the story.
It’s a pity that an author, who seems from some of his earlier work to be an erudite and capable writer, spoils his work by failing to recognise that sometimes less is more. I don't refer to the length of the work because a long book can be a pleasure to read or hear read. War and Peace is a case in point and the unabridged version on Audible was the best book I have ever read (listened to). The point is that the author of this book stretches the readers imagination too far at times so that the reader begins to find, what was up to that point an enjoyable story has become a silly crass and bawdy tail.
To be fair, this book probably does not seek to be recognised as great literature, it is merely popular fiction and many people will probably enjoy it. However, I chose this book because I had enjoyed one of Ken Follett's earlier works, particularly for its historical references and detail on cathedral building. The saving grace of this book was its little historical details thrown in about rural life in those times and it awakened in me an interest to read further on the subjects, particularly about building methods and architectural design.
This epic tale is epic only in length, not in quality and although it just about kept my interest until the end I will not be reading any more of this authors work. If you want a long story which is easy to read or listen too, with simple language and sentence structures and not at all difficult to understand, some light entertainment with a little bit of historical information thrown in, you may enjoy this. However, you have to be ready and able to suspend disbelief at times and to close your eyes (or ears) to some of the uncalled for vulgarity and silliness that is out of keeping with the rest of the book.
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- sally
- 2011/07/23
Great for long journeys
I have read Pillars and thought why not, I spend a lot of time driving and Pillars was enjoyable. Ken certainly knows how to tell a great tale and cleverly turns every day events from the past into a fascinating tale of both ordinary and not so people into a great story. The bits that annoyed were often around how he seems to translate the thoughts and ideas and words of the 21st century mind and presented them as if they would have been the usual beliefs for people who lived in medieval times. along with this the first four parts had numerous graphic sexual scenes, I thought much of them over dominated the story and unessacary. It was intersting that as the book progressed the detail of such incidents became less dominant but the story remained completely in tact. My other concern is how Ken's characters always seem to have siblings who are so different from them that it is difficult to understand how so many characters can be related to such heinus brothers or sisters, that did t times become far fetched. Apart from these issues that at times really iritated me I completely enjoyed the book, it was not easy to work out what would happen next so many surprises awaited. I learned much from the detail around the everyday life of the era. I wonder if another saga of Kingsbridge is about to be released.
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- James Hey
- 2011/04/11
Well, well, well
Well written
Well read
Well Done!
I don't know how this book could have been better. It was a long haul, but I was still sad to see it end. This is literally like a roller-coaster, you will NEVER be bored, and the longer the better.
There was a slight imbalance between the four initial characters, with two of them receiving more prominence than the others, but that worked well, as the tale wieved and bobbed around them.
I have no regrets on spending a credit on this book, and I am sure you will feel the same.
Literally no faults whatsoever!
BUY IT!
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- Hilary
- 2017/12/12
Trashy
I had enjoyed Pillars of the Earth, despite finding the sex scenes clumsily written and out dated. However, in this book they are even more frequent, more badly written and totally gratuitous. The characters and dialogue are wooden and both the characters and the plot seem a rehash of Pillars. Historical accuracy is poor. I'm disappointed to have wasted a credit on something which is so trashy.
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- LJ
- 2015/07/04
Glad it's finally over
Firstly I have to say that the Narrator is superb and would love to hear more of his work.
But this book was not nearly as good for me as Pillars of the Earth was. In fact I'd even listen to Pillars again but not this one. And the characters in Pillars were great in my opinion.
I'm content with the ending of this book but it felt SO anticlimactic, and listening to this story and it's stupid characters was like pulling teeth. I did not like a single character! I honestly felt like their flaws were so stupidly annoying that they all deserved every bad thing they got.
I honestly can't say I'd recommend it to anyone at all, not even enthusiasts who might have just finished Pillars.
I'm glad I listened to it and many parts made real-life events in history interesting but I'm so glad it's over.
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- Apollon
- 2011/02/21
An Emotional Epic Journey
I loved The Pillars of the Earth and put World Without End off as I could not see how that great book could be matched.
I was wrong.
World Without End keeps the PotE style of writing, but the plotting seems more heavier, more dramatic, more everything really, which some will like and some may not.
OMG, these poor character really do suffer through the story and the reader that inevitability gets attached to the characters, suffer with that agony as well.
Ken Follet may seem to be nasty with the misery that he puts his Characters (and readers) through, but do not let this put you off the book. All Metal in a forge gets stronger through fire and beating of a hammer and the characters in WWE do get stronger through their baptisms of fire.
This is a adult book with adult themes which may shock, but at the same time seem to fit the time period that this grate story is set.
World Without End is a well written period book, with awesome characters, and many many plots with in plots, woven into a classic piece of literature. Like PotE this book will be adapted for Film/TV. (I would put money on that.)
...oh yes the narrator is fantastic. Thank you MR Lee.
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- Isabella
- 2013/04/07
Too much like pillars
This is a catchy story with very convincing characters and interesting turn arounds, just like its predecessor, Pillars of the Earth. In fact, that is the biggest problem of it. There are so many obvious parallels between the two stories and characters that it becomes predictable. It may be nice to read on its own, but not as a sequel. But, then if you are to choose between the pillars and this one, I would certainly recommend the pillars. And then again, what is the point of this book anyway? One thing has to be said: John lee is fantastic narrator.
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- Lindsay Kay Caddy
- 2012/03/12
Pillars of the Earth the re-mix but thats not bad
I read and loved Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and so thought I would give World Without End a go as well. I also loved World Without End but it is very similar to Pillars. What Ken Follett has done is to take the characters, themes and locations of Pillars of the Earth and mixed them about a bit to create World Without End. That is not necessarily a bad thing as Pillars was a brilliant book and therefore World Without End is also excellent and it does have some differences such as the plague which are interesting. Another nice difference to Pillars is there is a lot fewer sex and rape scenes which meant strangers on the tube weren't throwing me worried glances over my facial expression. I would definitely recommend reading it, it does reference the characters and events of Pillars in it but you don't have to have read Pillars to understand it. A very comforting book and you feel you really get to know the characters.
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- Sara
- 2011/08/03
'Gripping'
Downloaded this to keep me company while I dectorated 2 bedrooms on my own. I had really enjoyed reading (and watching) 'Pillars of the Earth' and this is set 200 years later in Kingsbridge Cathedral. I thoroughly enjoyed it even to the point of listening to it when I went to bed, which is somethiing I never do. The narrator is excellent, giving every character a voice but not overdoing it.
Highly recommended.
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- Michelle
- 2017/06/29
A wonderful follow up
I went into this book with some hesitation having read pillars of the earth several times. I loved it. I found the main characters very captivating and couldn't wait to see what happened to them .
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- Chris Obay
- 2018/10/11
Excellent follow up
Cooked monks , lusty nuns , rebellious peasants , the Black Death and heroic builders. 45 hours wasn’t long enough ! Ken Follet is a wonderful storyteller and John Lee’s narration is spell binding.
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- Milton
- 2017/05/17
Stunning
love how long the book goes for and the constant tussle the characters are involved in.
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- Dave Woodfield
- 2019/09/29
Excellent narration!
Narrator was excellent, I loved the accents & different voices for some of the characters
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021/02/09
Performance is wonderful
The story is letting down what is a dissatisfying story.. Karma visited only a few of the characters it needed to, Glenda and Charis both deserved it and I felt let down that they didn't both get theirs. Why did Phil Philemon live unscathed??
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- Anonymous User
- 2021/01/16
Stellar performance (again)!
This is the second in the Kingsbridge series and it is just as good as the first! I'm so excited for #3!
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- Anonymous User
- 2021/01/09
Captivating story
Loved it and will be starting the next one straight away. An epic insight to life in those times including the carnage of the Black Plague. This really puts into perspective how minor Covid19 is in comparison.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020/11/23
sensational!
wonderful story writing, amazing characters, gripping twists! I laughed I cried! what an experience!
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- Julie
- 2020/11/15
Very readable
I found this book hard to put down even though I found some characters particularly frustrating. I will definitely listen again.
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- ConstantReader
- 2020/11/02
Really enjoyable overview of history
The only thing that disappoints in this book is it’s extremely dated attitude to how women’s sexuality is represented - women feeling uncontrolled arousal whilst being raped is an outdated (male) notion and the publishers could re release this book without these references without any loss to the larger historical narrative - it’s a great way to explore this period in history - how the plague impacted serfdom and how innovations from Europe were (slowly) adopted by the English to improve lives and wellbeing . The characters are well written and have depth of personality -all in all a great listen and also very well narrated