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|  | I bought this book since I wanted to read a good book about the dark times of Europe and because there were so many good reviews about this one. So I thought, let's give it a try.
- Storyline:
The beginning was still okay, but the book soon turned out to be very very boring. The whole plot can be summarized by the nearly never ending struggle between the so OBVIOUS good guys and the so OBVIOUS bad guys. Okay, true, the struggle ends some time, it's limited by the book covers. Otherwise, I bet this could have been another neverending story: the good guys have a dream, the bad guys stop it, the good guys get a "brilliant" idea to counter, the bad guys come up with a new plan, the good guys evade again, the bad guys try it again, etc etc etc. After the 3rd time this happened I stopped reading (and I'm usually not a person to stop a book half-way). It just got soooooo predictable: while the fear of the good guys if their plan would work was described for I-don't-know-how-many-pages, at the beginning of those one could already think "oh yeah, well, of course it will work, duh"... skipping 20 pages revealed: oh yes indeed, the plan worked out fine and the bad guys were mad once again... *sigh
- characters:
Another part of the book that made it boring are the characters. When you read about a character for the first time in this book, you already know everything about him/her for the rest of the book. They have no development at all, not as far as I've read it at least. The bad guys are so bad you cannot imagine, and the good guys are so good they almost seem too dumb and naive to be true (or maybe they just are).
- the worst:
All the rape scenes and mindless slaughters ... I mean, c'mon, I get it already that that dude is a brutal sadist with no brains, but do I have to be reminded of that fact each 20 pages?
conclusion:
This book is not worth the money and certainly not the time it takes to read it. The story could have been cut short by at least half its volume and the storyline still wouldn't change much. If I ever run out of space on my bookshelf, Pillars of the Earth will be the first book that will find its way into the trash.
| | | Ich bin weder ein Fan von Ken Follett, noch besonders am Mittelalter interessiert. Tatsächlich habe ich das Buch nur gelesen, weil es a) so viele Leuten so begeistert hat und b) die Taschenbuch-Ausgabe nicht teuer war. Und wie so oft bei solchen Käufen wurde ich sehr positiv überrascht! Innerhalb kurzer Zeit war ich vertieft in die Geschichte, die mich auch bis zum Schluss gefesselt hat (bei knapp 1000 Seiten erstaunlich). Wie akkurat der geschichtliche Hintergrund beschrieben ist, kann ich nicht beurteilen, aber als Unterhaltung ist der Roman bestens geeignet.
| | Zuviel heutiges Wissen in einer alten Geschichte | |
| | Dieses Buch ist bei weitem und nicht annähernd das beste Buch, das ich jemals gelesen habe, auch wenn ich mit vielen Rezensenten übereinstimme, dass es durchaus bemerkenswert ist. Der Roman spielt im dunklen Mittelalter, wo Recht und Gerechtigkeit im Gegensatz zu Gewalt eine Nebenrolle spielen. Ich kritisiere vor allem, dass viele Betrachtungen und Ansichten des Autors nicht in die Zeit passen, in der die Geschichte spielt. Es sind zeitgenössische Ideen verpackt in ein historisches Umfeld. Dies für alle, die hierin so sensibel und vermessen sind wie ich, von einem Roman Authentizität zu fordern.
| | This book has definitely changed my way | |
| | Of looking at old churches or cathedrals! Just realising that bunches of people spent their whole life to build those beautiful monuments to praise God - it's incredible. The plot of this book also is. It's the story of Phillip, Prior of Kingsbridge and his lifelong struggle and fight to get the cathedral built, run the priory and be a good monk. It's also the story of Tom and Jack - both of them addicted to masonry and especially to building cathedrals. And it is the story of Ellen, Aliena and Martha - three women whose life was intertwined with the cathedral built, not matter if they liked it or not. It is also a story about power and greed, political intrigues and personal interests of people around the King and in the Church who all have different reasons to want to stop the building of the cathedral. An excellent story that keeps you thrilled from first to last sentence. I would also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece--The Fates--if you haven't read it yet.
| | | Dieses Buch gewährt ein nachvollziehbaren Einblick in die damalige Zeit, in dem das einfache Volk den Machenschaften der Obrigkeit und den schwierigen Lebensbedingungen hilflos ausgeliefert war.
Sehr spannend zu lesen, mit vielen Informationen, die man in den Ritterfilmen aus dem Nachmittagsprogramm nicht zu sehen bekommt! :-)
Das Buch ist grundsätzlich sehr zu empfehlen, Punkteabzug gibt's von mir aber, weil es gegen Ende hin zu sehr in's "Soap"-ähnliche abdriftet!!
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