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Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy #3)

by Ken Follett (Goodreads Author), John Lee (Narrator)

4.03 · Rating Details · 51,784 Ratings · 5,030 Reviews

Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.

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:

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Oct 05, 2014 Michael rated it did not like it · review of another edition

The characters in this book unlike characters in his previous books (that I really enjoyed) are caricatures. Follett lets his liberal politics come though with no subtlety - all the blacks are good all whites are evil and bad-intentioned.

I'm sorry to have wasted my time reading this left-wing drivel.

Very disappointing given the talented storyteller Follett can be.

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Sep 21, 2014 Brittina rated it liked it · review of another edition

Sadly not nearly as well written as the previous books in this trilogy. The first third was as we're used to, descriptive and captivating. The rest seemed like he was in a hurry to finish, and is rushed and padded with a lot of clumsy sex. Very sad, I was so excited for the at installment and was left wanting better.

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May 17, 2014 Greg rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Bleh... I hated this book! What a load of liberal revisionist history.

I can summarize it for you this way: Liberals are brilliant, dashing, successful, all-knowing, always wise and prescient. Conservatives are stumbling, bumbling blockheads, who must visit prostitutes to get any action because who would want a conservative lover?

Want more? Jimmy Carter almost ended the cold war with his brilliant moves regarding Poland. Reagan gave a silly speech telling Gorbachev to "tear down this wall", whic ...more

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Oct 04, 2014 Gasperson rated it liked it · review of another edition

Review contains SPOILERS. Don't read further if you don't want some plot details spoiled.

Are you a self important baby boomer who leans left in your political views? Well buddy, are you going to have the biggest rager of a boner reading this book. Don't get me wrong, I devoured this book, and it starts off very strong. Most of the characters in the book start off likable. I realized pretty early on that at this point in the story, nearly all the characters are related by either blood or marriage Review contains SPOILERS. Don't read further if you don't want some plot details spoiled.

Are you a self important baby boomer who leans left in your political views? Well buddy, are you going to have the biggest rager of a boner reading this book. Don't get me wrong, I devoured this book, and it starts off very strong. Most of the characters in the book start off likable. I realized pretty early on that at this point in the story, nearly all the characters are related by either blood or marriage, despite being on 3 different continents. Remember how likable most of the characters in both of the first two books were? The strong women? The men up against these terrible World Wars but still fighting the good fight for their familes? Yeah, you sort of get that at the start of the book, but it doesn't last.

As some other reviewers have noted, the book does start off strong, but then sort of just starts jumping from one historic event to the next, all while glossing over or downplaying some important ones. Nixon, Reagan and the one right leaning character in the book are evil cartoon characters. Jimmy Carter is almost completely left out(I wonder why?). Some redeeming qualities are shown for Nixon, just before getting into the things he's known for. None such for the Gipper, but I think part of that is that the story starts to go off the rails a bit in the 80's. Vietnam was pretty glossed over earlier, and I shit you not, there is not a single mention of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, despite there being two POV characters based out of the USSR and the theme of the USSR losing money and status being a central theme of the later chapters. How is that sort of oversight possible? As for Nam, most of the characters in the story are affluent, so they didn't have to fight. One character gets drafted, and it's a bit of a stretch, and he spends all of about 2 pages in Nam. Those are some of the most forced pages in the entire book and of course Follett goes all BABYKILLER for those pages, and no real mention is made of them again. Another character goes over there and pulls a Jane Fonda. The portions about Nam can somewhat be forgiven from a "boots on the ground" POV stance, as Follett is never at his strongest when discussing combat. However, the absolute omission of the Soviet Afghan war is a really glaring mistake.

In the earlier books, Follett's strength was his human characters, and the terrible situations they're thrown in. Despite all odds, they always pull through, usually with the help/support of a strong family. These are families we've read about for 3 generations or more. It seems, that much like in real life, something was lost between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers. This is both a good thing, in that Follett acknowledges that the family did indeed grow weaker in that time period, and a bad thing as most of the characters are terrible people. Remember Maud? How she loved her man so strongly, that she gave up her family and homeland to be with him? She loved him through two world wars, and stayed strong for her new and growing family. Well, her grandson(SPOILERS) becomes a degenerate, drug addicted rockstar, who sleeps with his best friend's girl. His best friend(also his cousin), decides that this girl is fucking marriage material. Cheat on me and not feel bad about it? That's cool. Enable my cousin's heroin addiction? That's also cool, because I love you. Sounds like the kind of gal you'd want your son to marry right? Oh, that wonderful young lady is also a POV character, ha ha.

That's a theme among the male characters in this book. All of them, without fail, are fucking chumps. Almost all of them are either cheated on, cheat themselves, or end up making some choices that require a bit of a leap on the readers part. For instance (SPOILERS), a male character digs one of the female POV characters, but she falls for none other Jack Kennedy. He's such a fucking dreamboat that the bitch doesn't get married until she's 60, withered up, and a literal cat lady. The Kennedy clan in general are portrayed as the polar opposites to the cartoonish Nixon and Reagan. Very little mention is made of Ted, the fat drunk Kennedy, I guess Follett couldn't quite whitewash him into a completely flattering light.

Another character(more SPOILERS), one of the more redeeming ones, decides to cheat on her disabled husband with another man. Her poor disabled, mostly impotent husband say it's all good. Why? Because it's 60's MAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN. She just as quickly ends the affair. It's almost as if Follett put that in there to ruin the one completely likable character in the story.

So, you're probably thinking that I really disliked this book from that review, but that's untrue. It was an entertaining read, and a page turner. It starts off very strongly and I had hoped it would be as enjoyable at the first two, but the enjoyment I got from the middle and end portions of the book came more from Follett's obvious bias and the reverse-Jamie Lannister character arcs of the POV characters. If you have read the first two books, definitely read this one to see how it ends, but I must warn you...the ending is terrible. I mean, I groaned as soon as I saw the date posted at the top of the page. I'll put another spoiler tag below and then discuss it, because it's the funniest, most ironic bit for me.

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So, as I mentioned earlier, Follett spends some time building all of the right leaning characters into these evil cartoon characters. Early in the story it's(and rightfully so) the segregationists, then Nixon, and lastly Reagan. Now, for Reagan, he asserts that he's even worse than Tricky Dick, and that he got away with murdering innocents during the Iran-Contra affair. So what does Follett end on? You guessed it, the 2008 Barack Obama acceptance speech. For the scene, Follett has all of the black characters, who have fought so hard for civil rights throughout the first part of the book, all in one room watching the whole thing. Never mind that only Jacky and her son George are the only characters you care about in the room. They have reached the top of the mountain! I guess Follett wanted to stop it there and not have the parts where Obama wins the Nobel peace prize, and then murders innocents with drones. Hey, he'll get away with it though, the Gipper would be proud!

Edit: I would also like to add another glaring omission from a book that tried to hit all the big moments of the 60's-80's. The moon landing! The entire space race was barely mentioned, but one of the biggest "Where were you at" moments, and arguably one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind, the FUCKING MOON LANDING, was not even in the books. Not even a fucking mention!
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Dec 31, 2016 Mohammed Arabey added it · review of another edition

ريفيو مبدئي

كل عام وانتم بألف خير..نستهل قراءات العام برحلة كين فوليت التاريخية الصاخبة القوية

First 2017 Read, as the last 2 years...KEN FOLLETT & The Century Trilogy.
Because who doesn't read History..won't notice how determinedly it repeat itself.
مع ثلاثية القرن..لان التاريخ يعيد نفسه باصرار..فقط نحن من لانتعلم
ورحلة الي الستينات ، مخاطر حرب عالمية ثالثة نووية بين امريكا والاتحاد السوفييتي ، الفرق الانجليزية الموسيقية كالبيتلز، حائط برلين ، حرب فيتنام، الحقوق المدنية للسود ومارتن لوثر كينج، ا ...more

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Feb 27, 2014 Liviu rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mainstream, 2014_release_read, read_2014

very strong first part covering roughly 1961 - 1963 (Berlin wall, fight for Civil Rights, the Cuban missile crisis), but then the novel starts scattering and after a while becomes almost an encyclopedia like recital of what happens as it follows the diverse group of characters until 1989

there are strong moments here and there but they read more like snippets than like a novel, while the political biases of the author start becoming way too visible and detract from the book (there is a ton about ...more

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Sep 15, 2014 Shlomo rated it liked it · review of another edition

First off, I cannot review this book without spoilers, so please, please read at your own risk.

SPOILERS AHEAD

I was disappointed by this book. Maybe as a standalone version it would have been better received, but as the third of what had been a superb trilogy I was let down.

First:
Why drop so many characters we were invested in the first two books and which in the closing of the second made it look like we should look forward to what happens to them? The second books ends with Erik (Carla's broth ...more

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Sep 21, 2013 Kelly Hubbard rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I can't wait to read this book! Fall of Giants and Winter of the World were so good I could hardly put them down.

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Oct 11, 2014 cindy stenzel rated it it was ok · review of another edition

so many world events took place during the time period of this book that it felt like the characters were forced into the story rather than the story being built around the characters.

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Aug 14, 2014 Ric rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I read an advance copy of the third in the Century Trilogy Follett who is probably best know for his thrillers is also a great writer of historical fiction--Pillars of the Earth may be the best piece of historical fiction I ever read. Edge of Eternity is not far behind. It is the monumental (1100 pages in my copy) of a monumental time --1961 to 1989. The book was like reading a movie ( I mean that in a good way), story flowed, the characters flowed, it just worked. Granted lots of literary licen ...more

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Sep 11, 2014 Gary Branson rated it it was ok · review of another edition

It pains me to give a Follett a low rating; however, this just wasn't good. Stock characters against the political background of the last half of the 20th century just made this story too long. And where was England in all of this turmoil? Not one single mention of Margaret Thatcher. Seemed to be forcing a particular political agenda also... As I said about the second book in the trilogy, too broad a canvas to be effective.

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Oct 21, 2012 Gary rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

After reading well over 3,000 pages of material....you feel totally invested in a story. At least this writer does that for me. I cared deeply about these characters. It's funny....when I read a Follett novel......I dream about the characters while I sleep at night, as if they are real people. That's how powerful this trilogy was for me. And out of the 3 this one I could most relate to, because I was born in 1959,and the things happening in it up to 2008, I saw on the news. I lived it, I experie ...more

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Mar 03, 2014 Nicole~ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, follett

4.5 stars

Edge of Eternity is Follett's bookend to his globe-trotting Century trilogy that began with Fall of Giants followed by Winter of the World: a strikingly immense multi-generational saga featuring families from Germany, Russia, Wales, England and America, weaving historical world conflicts of the 20th century.

In this final installment, we see the grandchildren of the epic WWI story course through the remnants of WWII, the Cold War, and the civil rights movement of the 1960's. Follett's un ...more

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Oct 03, 2014 Terry Fazio rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Thought it was adolescent. I have read other books of Follet's and this one read as if someone else wrote it. Perhaps it is because I lived through this era, that there was a knowing of the linear plot, but I just don't think it was well written. Sorry. No recommendations here.

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Oct 02, 2014 Cindy Ward rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Long, long long and boooooring. I would say the first of this trilogy was the best...the second was only ok, and this one was not very good. I just didn't care about the characters, what happened, etc. It was not suspenseful or engaging. Sorry Ken Follett, I love you but not this book!

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Oct 31, 2014 Matt rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

What a sensational series to begin 2015 reading!!!

Follett ties up the Century Trilogy with the best novel yet, Edge of Eternity. Tackling the largest historical arc, Follett brings his characters to life at a time when the world saw epic change, continuing storylines from past novels and adding new layers with another generation of characters to push the trilogy ahead. Follett continues to follow five intertwined families through the major social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s thr What a sensational series to begin 2015 reading!!!

Follett ties up the Century Trilogy with the best novel yet, Edge of Eternity. Tackling the largest historical arc, Follett brings his characters to life at a time when the world saw epic change, continuing storylines from past novels and adding new layers with another generation of characters to push the trilogy ahead. Follett continues to follow five intertwined families through the major social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s. Follett addresses the rise of civil rights, assassinations of key political figures, development of political movements and Vietnam, which touched America and shaped the world. International historical events such as the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, numerous communist revolutions, and rock and roll. Readers of the first two Trilogy novels will bask in this most powerful novel, leaving not a page free of major character development and dramatic build-up. Follett remains a master of his craft and many others could learn from his ease of presentation.

Follett skips ahead a dozen years in this last novel. With the country firmly divided, East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman learns the Stasi has been invading her life for years, choosing to alter her own history in hopes of betterment. George Jakes, a young man of mixed-race joins Bobby Kennedy’s Justice Department, where the civil rights movement develops around him as American history is also shaped in the evolving 1960s. Cameron Dewar ignores his familial political history and joins Nixon's team to shape a country tired of Vietnam's casualties. Dimka Dvorkin, working for Nikita Khrushchev, witnesses the height of Cold War tensions as nuclear war becomes an almost-certain reality. Dvorkin's twin sister, Tania, leaves the comforts of Moscow to shape communist sentiment in Cuba and behind the Iron Curtain, where the Soviet nucleus wanes and political discord waxes. These are but a drop in the bucket of the characters, storylines, and dramatic narratives that pull the novel and the saga together once and for all.

Over a twenty-eight year historical arc, from 1961 through to 1989, Follett presents his brilliantly researched novel, picking key events and weaving backstories for a plethora of characters, whose lives are more than vessels for the political and social upheaval seen throughout. Even the most attentive reader may struggle with how the characters tie together, crossing national backgrounds and creating relationships that are best plotted on a genealogy tree. The novel is about more than living through history, but also using history as an ever-shaping backdrop. However, Follett pushes the argument (in all three novels) that history shapes not only borders and elections, but also those who create it, from commoner to political giant alike.

For those, like me, who invested the time in the audio version of the novel, a word about John Lee is surely in order. Lee, a master story teller with his nuanced accents and narrative abilities, brings the story to life with his ever-changing voices and calm style. He takes on so many characters, but is sure to give each their own voice and personality. He is a Follett favourite when it comes to audiobook renditions, and Lee has done a wonderful job in colouring the narrative from the opening pages in a Welsh coal mine through to the election of a black president of the United States of America.

Kudos, Mr. Follett for this literary gem. I have and will continue to recommend the series to friends and fellow readers alike.

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Oct 19, 2014 Andrew Obrigewitsch rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction

Not as good as the first two books. And not because I am irrationally offended when someone doesn't praise the all mighty Ronald Reagan.

With the Viet Nam war, Kennedy's, Hippie movement, rock music, the USSR and so much else that happened post WWII to the present. This should have been a great story. However it literally felt like this book was written by another author, who basically wrote an encyclopedia that had sex scenes in it to make it interesting.

For example, I get that this book was a Not as good as the first two books. And not because I am irrationally offended when someone doesn't praise the all mighty Ronald Reagan.

With the Viet Nam war, Kennedy's, Hippie movement, rock music, the USSR and so much else that happened post WWII to the present. This should have been a great story. However it literally felt like this book was written by another author, who basically wrote an encyclopedia that had sex scenes in it to make it interesting.

For example, I get that this book was about the sexual revolution, however, did every character have to have an affair? Even minor ones and even Martin Luther King? I felt like this was added in to keep people's interest, because the rest of the story was just not up to what I would expect from Ken Follett. It would literally go, Cuban missile crisis, end of chapter about someone's affair. Civil rights protect, fellowed by an affair. Berlin wall goes up, affair. Just got old after a while, although it did make since for some characters stories, like the Hippies, it just felt like filler when it came to JFKs and MLKs affairs, or stories about people they had affairs with.

A lot of people are complaining about the end of the book, where the civil rights activists, who have been working their whole lives to help people of color gain equal rights, are excited that Obama became president. Well that only makes sense from these characters, finally seeing a black president is something they thought would never happen. It does not mean the author is biased. In fact the author was very anti-communist.

I am neither a Democrat nor Republican, and really don't like either. And I think this book is pretty center of the line. But people in the U.S. are so used to the media being biased in favor of one team or the other, that they think anything said bad about their team, means someone is biased. Notice I said team? Well, because these two parties are really nothing more than sports teams that people blindly follow. At least that's my view, sure there are some good players, but mostly their records are pretty bad, and they both support very oppressive actions that the government is doing. ...more

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Jul 06, 2014 Skip rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical

WOW. Ken Follett continues to produce great novels. The third book in the Century Trilogy is bookended by the creation and destruction of the Berlin Wall, symbolizing the rise and fall of communism. But the book has so much more, covering the civil rights movement, concluding with the election of Barack Obama. Follett also integrates the key political figures, assassinations, protests, and strife of the past 50 years. But, what really makes the novel are the great characters he has created and t ...more

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May 01, 2015 André rated it did not like it · review of another edition

A trilogia do século do Ken Follett começou de forma brilhante com A Queda dos Gigantes. Continuou na mesma nota com o Inverno do Mundo. E, infelizmente No Limiar da Eternidade cumpriu efectivamente parte do seu título, ficou-se no limiar.

Os dois primeiros livros desta trilogia tiveram do seu lado a vantagem de representarem curtos períodos de tempo que foram dominados por grandes acontecimentos, tais como a Primeira e Segunda Guerra Mundial. Neste terceiro volume, o autor tentou, de forma pouc ...more

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Oct 03, 2014 Dawn rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction

Worth the time to finish just to say I did it, but not even close to the quality of its precursors. I am a big fan of Follett's previous work. Pillars of the Earth is up there with the best books written in the last few decades. Sadly, though it gets off to a good start, Edge of Eternity fizzles fast, becoming repetitive and predictable. Characters patronizingly summarize and re-summarize their lives like a 6th grade history teacher trying to prep students for a test. Connections between real an ...more

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Mar 23, 2013 Robert Bilicki rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I have read almost all of Ken Follett's books. They are great stories.

Let me just say that if Ken Follet's new book is anything like his previous books, I believe it will be great. I have to admit that I have only read the outline of the story but, from the little I read Follet's new book will be interesting. Sorry I if I gave the impression that I had already read the whole story.

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Nov 25, 2013 Parul rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Edge of Eternity reads like a Young Adult fiction. Plot lines follow the same routine as the last two books. All love angles seem forced in awkwardly. Very disappointing.

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Sep 25, 2014 Fiona rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Follett knows how to make you turn the pages. He's a master story teller. But this was a rush job, to the point of being insulting. Would a character in the 1970s really say "yada, yada"? For some reason that annoyed me more than the repeated paragraph, the ponderous recaps,
one dimensional characters and mawkish, cliché ridden writing.

All the same I had to finish it - more fool me.

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Jul 23, 2014 Connie rated it really liked it

Shelves: audible-cd, 2014

4.5 stars

I so anticipated the 3rd in the Century Trilogy and I greedily devoured this as quickly as the first two. I was anxious to get back to the continuing saga of these 5 families whose lives intertwine as history unfolds. I am not sure I loved this one quite as much, as the time frame of the 1960's thru the 1980's were familiar to me as it is my history. Things were very familiar and I felt that I missed the "learning" part of his first two. That said, I am amazed at the amount of research ...more

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Oct 30, 2013 Dana Kenedy (Dana and the Books) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, read-in-2016

In big multi POV stories you always have that one character who's chapters you can't stand and slog through just to get to the good characters. That dude was Dimka. Dimka sucked.

For me, George Jakes carried the book. He was definitely the strongest and most interesting character of the bunch.

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Sep 19, 2014 Maria rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own, leituras-2014, romance-hist-rico-poca, ken-follett

Após quatro anos de início da trilogia O Século, eis que esta chega ao fim com No Limiar da Eternidade, um livro cujas 1022 páginas se leem tão bem que é difícil abandonar a sua leitura.

O Século retratado nesta trilogia é para mim o mais rico em história, abrangendo duas Grandes Guerras e uma Guerra Fria que colocou em numa "guerra" as duas grandes super potências do mundo atual EUA e URSS.

Mais uma vez Follett junta as cinco famílias iniciais, juntamente com as gerações que lhes sucederam para r ...more

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Jan 02, 2016 Cátia Santos rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Este senhor conquistou-me com "Os pilares da Terra" e penso que será difícil a sua suplantação... Talvez um dia Ken Follett me surpreenda...

Ainda assim, esta trilogia é fabulosa! Talvez este seja o volume "menos bom" dos três, mas leva as 5* por ser o fecho de quase 3000 páginas da história do nosso século XX, que tão brilhantemente foi aqui retratada. E não poderia ter melhor final do que a queda do muro de Berlim!

Bravo, Ken Follett, uma vez mais...

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Jul 01, 2014 Carol rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: stc-bookclub, historical-fiction, series, published-2014, read-2014, 1960-s, vietnam

3.5 STARS

Book Three of Ken Follett's Century Trilogy began as an UNPUTDOWNABLE 5 Star read for me, but soon lowered to a page-turning 4 Stars, then an interesting 3 Stars and even took a dive to 2 Stars in a few instances....hence the 3.5 Star rating.

EDGE OF ETERNITY covers the tumultuous 1960's thru 1980's encompassing the shameful Civil Rights era, the disheartening assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, the unbelievable horrors of Vietnam, the tyranny behind the Berlin Wall, the nerve-racking times of the Cuban Missile Crisis, (Tricky Dick) Nixon's impeachment, plus the beginning of the awesome Rock and Roll music era; BUT after all that, disappointedly failed to even mention Neil Armstrong's historic walk on the moon televised on July 20, 1969......(we watched it!)

Having been a young teen in the 60's, I lived through and remember most of the facts and events portrayed here, and for the most part, felt the novel informative and a good refresher on true events of the time. I recall being scared during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but don't remember the U.S. surveilance plane that was shot down; and reliving the assassination of JFK brought back the sad and shocking memory.....like 9-11 and the first moon walk.....you just never forget those times.

There are more unlikeable characters than not in this story, (vindictive Hans Hoffman was #1 on my list with the self-serving Jasper Murray a close 2nd.). There were also unpredictable actions by others that surprised me (Rebecca and Walli each come to mind), and one completely boring character I could have done without all together (Cameron Dewar). There are those who will be offended by the descriptive sex scenes that pop-up often and (sometimes needlessly) throughout the book, but I just chocked it up to the "free sex" time period of the 1960's and ventured forward....

Back to the positive side, one scene in particular (view spoiler) was suspenseful and quite intense as were some scenes during the Civil Rights demonstrations. There were also a few laughable moments along the way.....I have never, ever heard mention of "jumbo" in reference to President Lyndon Johnson......(Cracked Me Up!)

In summary, EDGE OF ETERNITY is not without its flaws, and IMHO not up to par with Books 1 and 2 in the trilogy, but overall, I was entertained and did enjoy it.

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Aug 30, 2013 Christina rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Just finished Winter of the World, and I cannot wait for the next one!

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May 09, 2017 Xime García rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: hate-hate-hate, leídos-en-inglés, reseñados

1.5 en realidad ~~Creo que nunca puse esa puntuación antes~~
Van a haber algunos pequeños spoilers sin marcar, y los más grandes van a estar debidamente marcados.

La pasé MUY mal leyendo este libro! Lo siento, fans de Follett, vengan de a uno, porque lo pienso masacrar.

Tengo una fuerte política de no abandonar los libros que compro en físico (si los leo en digital soy de abandonarlos muy seguido y sin culpa), pero es una filosofía que tengo que empezar a replantearme, porque en mi afán de amortizar ...more

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About Ken Follett

Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 160 million copies of the 31 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.

Born on June 5, 1949, in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in philosophy. He was made a fellow of the coll Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 160 million copies of the 31 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.

Born on June 5, 1949, in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in philosophy. He was made a fellow of the college in 1995.

He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper, the South Wales Echo, and then with the London Evening News. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming the deputy managing director.

Ken’s last project, the Century Trilogy, has sold 19.5 million copies worldwide. The three books tell the story of the twentieth century through five generations on three continents. Ken’s first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978. A World War II thriller set in England, this book earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. It remains one of his most popular books.

In 1989, Ken’s epic novel about the building of a medieval cathedral, The Pillars of the Earth, was published. It reached number one on bestseller lists everywhere and was turned into a major television series produced by Ridley Scott, which aired in 2010. The next book in the Kingsbridge series, World Without End, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, proved equally popular when it was published in 2007. The Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide.

Ken has been active in numerous literacy charities and was the president of Dyslexia Action for ten years. He was the chair of the National Year of Reading, a joint initiative between government and businesses. He is also active in many Stevenage charities and is the president of the Stevenage Community Trust. Ken also set up The Follett Trust, which awards single donations to the arts and in cases of social deprivation and education.

Ken, who loves music almost as much as he loves books, is an enthusiastic bass guitar player in two bands. He lives in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, with his wife, Barbara, the former Labour member of Parliament for Stevenage. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors.
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