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World Without End (The Pillars of the Earth #2)

by Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)

4.22 · Rating Details · 138,440 Ratings · 9,175 Reviews

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year—World Without End.

World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished buil ...more

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Published October 4th 2007 by Berkley

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Oct 04, 2010 Stephen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ebooks, historical-fiction, audiobook, romantical, 2006-2010, epic

Put some towels down because I sense a fully formed gush geyser about to spill all over this review. This book was fantastic and really did it for me. I loved it, all 1000+ pages, and I wouldn’t have minded if it was considerably longer (TWSS).

After more than loving The Pillars of the Earth (that’s right, I lurved it), I had tall hopes for this sorta sequel and let me tell you it was more than up to the task.

I was parched and hungry for a good meaty read. Well consider me gorged and my story ...more

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Oct 10, 2007 Lynn rated it it was ok

Recommends it for: Pillars of the Earth fans

Shelves: historical-fiction, british-history

This "companion" novel to Follett's 1989 classic The Pillars of the Earth is set in the same community, 200 years later. I'd been excited about it ever since I heard it was coming out this fall - Maybe too excited, because it just didn't live up to my expectations.

The first half of the book seemed a sort-of ho-hum retread of "Pillars". In place of Jack Builder, we have his look-alike great-great-great-many-times-over grandson, Merthin. Instead of Aliena, we get Caris (who I wanted to slap severa ...more

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Apr 15, 2013 Dan Schwent rated it liked it

Shelves: homework-from-the-ladies, 2013, kitten-squisher

Set two centuries after Pillars of the Earth, the people of Kingsbridge are at it again. The cathedral built in Pillars is in disrepair after part of the roof caved in, the bridge collapsed, and the prior is dead. Also, the constant maneuvering continues...

So, I fell into a trap with this one. After devouring Dinocalypse Now in a morning, my girlfriend asked if I managed to read an entire book in four hours. I said I had and she slammed me with this, saying it shouldn't take me more than a few d ...more

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Sep 09, 2008 La Petite Américaine rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Non-anal types who enjoy guilty pleasure reading

Recommended to La Petite Américaine by: Nicole

Shelves: kicked_ass, guilty-pleasures

In all practical theory, this book should be on my 'Sucked' shelf. It's a tale of the Middle Ages, the gross injustices of the time, and it truly amounts to a thousand-page Medieval soap opera. It hasn't got much to do with it's predecessor The Pillars of the Earth , except that it's in the same location 200 years later, with characters that are "descendants" of the Pillars characters. There's none of the complex building and architectural aspects found in Pillars, the graphic sex and violence In all practical theory, this book should be on my 'Sucked' shelf. It's a tale of the Middle Ages, the gross injustices of the time, and it truly amounts to a thousand-page Medieval soap opera. It hasn't got much to do with it's predecessor The Pillars of the Earth , except that it's in the same location 200 years later, with characters that are "descendants" of the Pillars characters. There's none of the complex building and architectural aspects found in Pillars, the graphic sex and violence has been toned down, several aspects of the plot are predictable, and the dialogue seems strikingly modern for a novel set in the 14th century. So, why is this book not on my 'Sucked' shelf? ...

Because it KICKED ASS.

With all of the above-mentioned problems in the book, it takes on hell of an author to pull off this kind of novel. Kenn Follett just plain rules. The story goes at a breakneck pace, the descriptions of the feudal system are fascinating, and the characters are complex and multi-faceted. For every (small) predictable plot twist, there are a million little shockers, and at the end, there are a few questions about the truth lingering. Frickin great.

I also found Follett's descriptions of the complete powerlessness of women and the ultimate authority of the nobles described with total intensity, and they are displayed over and over again through the stories of the characters. Equally interesting were the power struggles between the church, the people, and the nobility. Conflict everywhere! Love it!

Another great aspect of this book was the concentration on Medieval ideas about health and medicine, especially during the time of the plague. Given that monks are the only physicians, the best cures are blood-letting and applying goat-shit to open wounds to form a "healthy" pus. If you sit closer to the altar in the church hospital, you'll heal faster. [Although slight scientific advances are made in the book, the lingering affects of the church's bogus medical ideas seem to have transcended the centuries to live on in modern Italy: cover your stomach to avoid catching a cold, wait 3 hours after eating before you swim or you'll drown, sunflower oil is good for the flu, humidity causes low blood pressure, and canker sores are caused by indigestion. A complete aversion to all forms of medicine are also fundamental in this society. (i.e. Yesterday my French friend Sandrine had a headache. Italians don't like to take Aspirin because it will "destroy your liver," but Sandrine is French and has no problem with taking meds, so I offered her an Aleve. "If you don't want medicine, be Italian and kiss this," I said to her, holding up my pocket-rosary.)]

Anyway, great book, totally fascinating, very different from
Pillars of the Earth, and written by a guy who truly is a master writer.

KICKED ASS.
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Aug 02, 2008 James rated it it was ok

Shelves: history

Follett finally completed the sequel to his evergreen historical novel, The Pillars of the Earth, and although I was compelled by the story enough to read all 1024 pages in a week, I was saddened at how poorly the book compares with its predecessor.

It is interesting to consider the nearly 20 years between the first book and this sequel. Many things have changed in our culture since then, leading Follett to inject even more egregious anachronisms into this book than the first. For example, the ch Follett finally completed the sequel to his evergreen historical novel, The Pillars of the Earth, and although I was compelled by the story enough to read all 1024 pages in a week, I was saddened at how poorly the book compares with its predecessor.

It is interesting to consider the nearly 20 years between the first book and this sequel. Many things have changed in our culture since then, leading Follett to inject even more egregious anachronisms into this book than the first. For example, the characters at one point fret over the self-esteem of a teenage girl. There are many further examples but I will spare you.

More telling is the apparent shift Follett has undergone in what he believes we want to read about. For example, the first book avoided homosexuality, despite the many opportunities to explore it in a monastery. The second, now twenty years deeper into the gay rights movement, explores gay relationships with a frank openness more consistent with San Francisco circa 2000 than the Britain of the 1300s.

I am most personally disappointed that the author did not again craft a thoughtful and multi-dimensional portrayal of a man of faith. The character of Prior Philip stands as the hallmark achievement of the first novel. Prior Philip was a man filled with the desire to do what is right by God and by his fellowmen but sometimes unable to know what would be right and what cost was worth bearing to do it. This is my personal experience of what most spiritual leaders are like.

In contrast, the religious figures in the sequel are all one-dimensional sycophants or toadies, ingratiating themselves with higher ups for their own personal gratification, betraying their own principles regularly, and considering faith a stepping stone rather than an end in itself.

The one sympathetic, intelligent, and thoughtful religious character is a woman who is technically an athiest, and only joined a convent to avoid being tried as a witch. She is consistently smarter and more capable than all other religious figures and her athiesm is continually cited as the engine behind her industriousness and her unique interpersonal gifts.

I've met athiests like that, but I've also met religious people like that and you'd think that a novel that spans fifty years of religious life in a town where all activity centers on a cathedral might include even one intelligent, sincere devout person? Just one?

The differences between these two books tells us much about ourselves and the kinds of things authors and editors believe we want to read. I wonder what a third book, written 20 years from now, would say about us?
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Apr 03, 2008 Karen rated it it was ok

Well, Pillars of the Earth is one of my favorite books and I was looking forward to completely enjoying this without reservation. But way back when it first came out, I stumbled onto an online discussion that cited a passage with anachronistic vocabulary, which bothered me. It was very anachronistic. So it was a single passage, but it added some reservation to my anticipated complete enjoyment. And then I got to page 15, and there's this conversation that no two people would ever have under any Well, Pillars of the Earth is one of my favorite books and I was looking forward to completely enjoying this without reservation. But way back when it first came out, I stumbled onto an online discussion that cited a passage with anachronistic vocabulary, which bothered me. It was very anachronistic. So it was a single passage, but it added some reservation to my anticipated complete enjoyment. And then I got to page 15, and there's this conversation that no two people would ever have under any circumstances that served only for the author to show off some detail about the time period. That doesn't bode well, at least not on top of sloppy word choice. Finally, there's a character in this book that might as well be a character from Pillars, which makes me worry that other character types will be recycled. PLUS there's a major plot point hinged on the kind of intrigue that drove the motivations of some characters in Pillars--derivative! derivative! So I have four things in my conscience mind to have to suppress as I am reading. Fortunately, I have been able to do so, at least through the first part of the book.

I am sad that people who are sort of shabby and bumbling are the descendants of people who were just fantastic in Pillars, but I accept that family fortunes rise and fall. I think it will color my feelings about those Pillars characters next time I read the book, but not necessarily my feelings about the book.

UPDATE APRIL 5:
Uh-oh. I had really hoped the Great Mumbo Jumbo Kerfuffle of Aught-Seven was an anomaly, but I just encountered the word "sexy" in a character's thoughts and I'm not even at page 100 yet. Is two a pattern?

UPDATE April 12:
The book tanks. It becomes extraordinarily boring around the plague and then it just doesn't pick up again. The second half of the book is like a checklist of all the social changes that the plague triggers. The characters turn into mirror images of the characters in Pillars, and some of them in that book were a little silly. The final scene between Gwenda and Annet is just goofy; there is a rebellious teenage girl running around with a bad crowd; I skimmed the last 200 pages while fooling around in a chat room.

I will forget I have read this book. I was sad for a while to see what became of Jack and Aliena's descendants, but it doesn't matter. The book is inconsequential.

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Jan 24, 2008 Christine rated it it was ok

Recommends it for: ONLY extremely bored people with no capacity for long term memory

The Pillars of the Earth was pretty good, but WWE is supposed to be a sequel... However, WWE seems to be a 1000 page snorefest after the first book. Perhaps if I had read them 18 years apart... then I would not have minded that WWE is a plagiarized (by the same author) copy of TPOTE. They have the same plot, same polar characters (no one is reasonable, they are all so totally overboard in every description), same activities, same cads, same villians, same love story... Same everything... But the ...more

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Aug 29, 2011 Matt rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction

World Without End, a follow-up to Ken Follett’s surprise bestseller Pillars of the Earth, steals a page from the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure playbook. A motley collection of insipid characters – if possible, even stupider and less realistic than Bill & Ted – get into a time machine and travel back to year 1327 and the village of Kingsbridge…

Wait. Oh, wait.

There are no time machines? The characters in World Without End are supposed to represent actual people from the 14th century? ...more

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Sep 01, 2015 Nikoleta rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical

Σε αυτό το βιβλίο ο Follett δημιουργεί ακριβώς με την ίδια συνταγή με την οποία δημιούργησε το πρώτο βιβλίο "Οι Στυλοβάτες της Γης". Ακολουθεί την πορεία μιας παρέας ατόμων για πολλά χρόνια, πάντα στο Κινγκσμπριτζ της Αγγλίας. Συνήθως ο κεντρικός ήρωας είναι δημιουργός (στο πρώτο χτίστης εδώ ξυλουργός) και η κεντρική ηρωίδα τσαούσα. Ο δημιουργός αναλαμβάνει ένα μεγάλο έργο για την πόλη και αυτό δημιουργείτε πάντα υπό το βλέμμα του μοναστηριού του Κινγκσμπριτζ. Ενώ για διάφορους λόγους ο έρωτας τ Σε αυτό το βιβλίο ο Follett δημιουργεί ακριβώς με την ίδια συνταγή με την οποία δημιούργησε το πρώτο βιβλίο "Οι Στυλοβάτες της Γης". Ακολουθεί την πορεία μιας παρέας ατόμων για πολλά χρόνια, πάντα στο Κινγκσμπριτζ της Αγγλίας. Συνήθως ο κεντρικός ήρωας είναι δημιουργός (στο πρώτο χτίστης εδώ ξυλουργός) και η κεντρική ηρωίδα τσαούσα. Ο δημιουργός αναλαμβάνει ένα μεγάλο έργο για την πόλη και αυτό δημιουργείτε πάντα υπό το βλέμμα του μοναστηριού του Κινγκσμπριτζ. Ενώ για διάφορους λόγους ο έρωτας της τσαούσας και του δημιουργού έχει μεγάλα εμπόδια. Παράλληλα γινόμαστε μάρτυρες διάφορων μεγάλων ιστορικών γεγονότων της εποχής (αγαπώ)!!!Η συνταγή όμως έχει κ πολλές παραλλαγές στο δεύτερο βιβλίο. Οι ήρωες είναι περισσότεροι, τους ακολουθούμε από πιτσιρίκια, και ο καθένας έχει την ιστορία του. Νομίζω ότι προτιμούσα σε αυτό το σημείο το πρώτο βιβλίο γιατί εκεί είχαμε τους γονείς αρχικά (τον Μπιλντερ κυρίως) και τον Φιλιπ (δηλαδή παρακολουθούσαμε δύο ιστορίες)και μετά τον γιο του Μπιλντερ, που έγινε ο κεντρικός ήρωας κ την Αλιενα, που ήταν κεντρική ηρωίδα και φυσικά τον Φιλιπ, που σε όλες τις φάσεις, όλα αυτά τα χρόνια δρούσε σαν φύλακας άγγελος στις ζωές τους. Έτσι η πλοκή ήταν συμμαζεμένη και οι ιστορίες συγκεκριμένες. Ενώ σε αυτό το βιβλίο έχουμε παράλληλες ιστοριουλες, αποσπάσματα ζωών πολλών ηρώων, με περιπετειουλες που ανοίγουν και κλείνουν ταχύτατα. Φυσικά είναι κ το θέμα του μυστηρίου, στο πρώτο είχαμε μια μυστηριώδη κατάρα κ εδώ ένα μυστηριώδες γράμμα. Σαφέστατα κερδίζει η πρώτη ιστορία, καθώς στο δεύτερο βιβλίο μέχρι το τέλος του, που μας φανερώνεται η αλήθεια, το μυστήριο έχει πλέον ξεφουσκώσει, καθώς δεν είχε ασχοληθεί κ καθόλου σε όλο το βιβλίο. Είναι όμως και αυτό βιβλιάρα, που παρά τον όγκο του διαβάζεται ταχύτατα και -όσον αφορά εμένα πάντως- ακούραστα. Το προτείνω στους λάτρεις του μεσαιωνικού ιστορικού μυθιστορήματος, και όχι μόνο. Είναι κυρίως για αυτούς που δεν φοβούνται τα βιβλία τούβλα!!!
4,5/5 αστεράκια.
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Feb 24, 2008 PennyiSD rated it did not like it

One of my book clubs selected this as we had all read and loved Pillars of the Earth when it came out 20 years ago.

I got halfway through this tome and decided I didn't want to waste another moment of my life on a book which failed on so many counts. The characters didn't seem real and certainly didn't elicit any sympathy from this reader as they moved from one contrived crisis to the next, the writing was repetitive and juvenile (a gifted high school student could write better), the language wa ...more

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Kayleigh You made it farther than I did. :| I read Pillars and thought it was OK, but not great or even very good. And then I happened to literally find this b ...more
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Ashley To the commenter of above: she doesn't mean a medical doctor in the modern sense of the word and Caris still believes in the power of the saints (alth ...more
Jan 22, 2014 01:28AM

Kamilari Thank you :) You've said exactly the things I have thought all the way through the novel. Yes, I have managed to finish this book who knows how. Maybe ...more
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Dec 29, 2007 Mary Catherine rated it it was ok

This is the sequel to "Pillars of the Earth." It's set 200 years after that original book but is very similar in terms of plot and especially character. Every main character from "Pillars" has their parallel in this book: the intelligent, noble builder; the feisty, born-before-her-time love interest; the evil, corrupt nobleman who rapes and pillages his way into power. It gets to the point where you start to wonder why you're bothering reading it. There's absolutely nothing new here.

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Feb 11, 2008 Mom rated it did not like it

I cannot find the words to express how disappointed I was with this book. Having enjoyed "Pillars of the Earth" twice I awaited the issue of the sequel with immense enthusiasm.

What a letdown! The characters, the plot,the writing are all dreadful...Mr Follett has tried to bring the 13th century into the 21st and it hasn't worked. The gratuitous sex and foul language spoil the book from the first chapter and for the first time in years, I will not be finishing this novel!

Very sad to see a good au ...more

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Jun 24, 2012 Mark rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, historical-fiction, really-loathsome-villains

Second Ken Follett, second Ken Follett audiobook, second Ken Follett audiobook listened to in car, first time I have ever wished to be caught in a really humungous traffic jam.

This was an enthralling sort of sequel to the The Pillars of the Earth . I say sort of because it is set some 200 years after the end of that wondrous story. Just as the previous novel looked at the building of the Cathedral and the growth of the fictional city of Kingsbridge* through the disastrous 19 year reign of King Second Ken Follett, second Ken Follett audiobook, second Ken Follett audiobook listened to in car, first time I have ever wished to be caught in a really humungous traffic jam.

This was an enthralling sort of sequel to the The Pillars of the Earth . I say sort of because it is set some 200 years after the end of that wondrous story. Just as the previous novel looked at the building of the Cathedral and the growth of the fictional city of Kingsbridge* through the disastrous 19 year reign of King Stephen and beyond, this novel covers the forty years or so of the middle part of the 14th Century embracing most especially the horrendous catastrophe of the Bubonic Plague's arrival in Europe in which perhaps a third or more of Europe died a horrible death.

The story centres around the lives of four young children who witness the killing of two men at arms who themselves had come to kill the young knight who turned the tables on them. From those deaths unfurl the long, long journey of the story which cleverly comes full circle right at the end of this huge work. A mysterious letter, buried by this young man, is pivotal to the story and, though it does not reappear fully until the end, punctuates the plot's every twist and turn like a hinted shadow or a glimpsed figure of menace.

The four children grow from pre-adolescent exploring and friendship to middle age and all the accrued experiences. Caris, a young rich girl who is beautiful as well as wealthy but who is a natural leader, strikingly independant in thought, vision and action and is, if I may be so bold, a tad anachronistic. This does seem to be a theme for Follett. Certainly in the two novels which I have read and loved, the main female character is brilliant and strong and intelligent and insightful and therefore, whether people like it or not, not a very accurate outline of how a woman would have been able to be in the 14th Century. We might 100% agree with everything she says and does, or at least a good deal of it, but she speaks and reacts and behaves as a woman might well speak and react and behave in 2012 but most certainly not how she would in 1312. She is a great character but not of her time.

Then we have Merthin, the great love of her life. Of lower gentry fallen on hard times. Should be of rich stock but incompetence by his father results in a lower standing. He becomes an Architect and Trailblazer and courageous man of honour and decency. Another visionary.

His brother, Ralph, an unbelievably squalid shit. Cruel and vengeful and vicious and murderous and irredeemably awful and then we have Gwenda. She is the token peasant not quite the tart with the heart but every soap opera has to have the poor girl whose role is to be the best friend of the rich girl thus enabling aforesaid rich girl to take on another mantel, that of democratic liberal. This is to belittle Gwenda really as she is a brilliantly drawn and brave character and her struggles serve to mark momentous moments in the story and the ebb and flow of her life is one which really holds the reader's sympathy.

Re-reading this it might sound as if i did not like the book. I did. It is excellent. A fantastically exciting story, enormously expansive in its canvas and has enough willthey/won't they moments and gasp-i-can't-believe-he/she/they/said/did/achieved that opportunities for plot development that you are swept along. However this volume, more than the first one I think, is a total Middle Ages Soap opera. I am not sneering at that; it is ridiculously addictive, hence my desire for a big traffic jam but this time the historical awkwardness jarred more. The language used, the opinions expressed...always by Caris and Merthin and sometimes by others of their allies....were not believable for people of the 14th century. Their middle class sensitivities and liberal attitudes are wonderful for middle class and liberal people living and working and falling in love in the 21st Century but though Caris may well have struggled with all sorts of things I felt she was struggling as would a 21st century women transferred by magic back to the 14th century. Her struggles were of a woman going to bed in 2012 Surrey and waking up in 1348, the Bobby Ewing shower scene in reverse.

Follett again keeps 'plates' spinning brilliantly and draws characters with sharp lines so that you do not need to think much but know exactly who you are to boo and who you are to cheer. There was an oddly convenient use of the Black Death where his scythe seemed always to cut down the right people to ease the plot along and enable the main characters to progress. Only one central character died of it and indeed that was massively convenient and came at just the right time. Once again i am not criticizing for the sake of it but it does reinforce the idea of Soap Opera. In Emmerdale or 'Corrie' we will have a plane crash or a train pile up. In the pre-machine, pre-Industrial age of Medieaval Kingsbridge we will use the mightily convenient pandemic making sure only minor characters or certainly those whose usefulness to the plot is past or maybe they want to move on to do a season in Pantomime at Blackpool for the Christmas season. Anyway they will be the ones who 'buy it'.

Things i found briliant were the ways Follett easily explains the development of social structures and the growth of industry and the discovery of different ways of weaving or dyeing or construction. I felt I was learning as i read without even realizing it. The development of surnames and titles and the beginnings of the loosening of the serf structure was fascinating. The political and ecclesiastical battles were cleverly hinted at. The hopelessness of the poor before the tyranny of the powerful was well expressed and the stagnating grip of the status quo was well illustrated. I felt myself groan with frustration along with Caris and Merthin even as I knew this was another anachronism. By this stage i didn't care. That is the power of Mr Follett, I recognize that he is manipulating and twisting reality to suit his story and characters but he did it so well that i was totally Team Caris.

Each time Ralph did something monstrous, each time Godwin was an underhand shite, every time Philemon...who obviously smelt, Follett did not spell this out but i knew this had to be......just breathed I let all these occasions collect in my memory knowing they would surely all be avenged in some way shape or form. Well, all i will say is......I was not massively disappointed....Follett does a good plate of comeuppance and here he parts company with Soap opera cos he, quite evidently, believes in happy endings.

*though I would point out that for threee years I lived just 10 miles from the small town called Kingsbridge which nestles in the beautiful area of the South Hams in Devon ...more

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Nov 23, 2014 Miquel Reina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: top-books, travel-and-adventure, adventure, mustread, pearl

When I had in my hands “World without end” I had a mixture of excitement and fear, I will explain it. For me the Pillars of the Earth was and is one of my favourite books, I could say that is within my Top 5 favourite books, so when I first took “World without end” I had a great desire to know what Ken Follett wrote but also I was afraid that comparing to its precursor novel could disappoint me. I was wrong. “World without end” is an extraordinary book, and now I have to say that it competes wit When I had in my hands “World without end” I had a mixture of excitement and fear, I will explain it. For me the Pillars of the Earth was and is one of my favourite books, I could say that is within my Top 5 favourite books, so when I first took “World without end” I had a great desire to know what Ken Follett wrote but also I was afraid that comparing to its precursor novel could disappoint me. I was wrong. “World without end” is an extraordinary book, and now I have to say that it competes with the position of the Pillars. In this second book, Follet makes a big temporary jump and presents a more evolved society with a fascinating female as its main character. I think the female character gives to the story a new point of view, a richness and completely new way of facing the problems of that time. I obviously recommend this novel to all readers of The Pillars of the Earth and I encourage to read these two epic stories to the rest who haven’t done it yet because it’s a story that you will remember for the rest of your life.

Spanish version:
Cuando tuve en mis manos "Un mundo sin Fin" senti una mezcla de emoción y de miedo, me explicaré. Para mí los Pilares de la Tierra es uno de mis libros favoritos, podría decir que está dentro de mis Top 5 libros favoritos, así que al coger el libro tenía unas ganas enormes por saber en qué historia me sumergiría Ken Follet como continuación pero a la vez tenía miedo que comparándolo con su precursora me decepcionara. Pero mis dudas fueron infundadas. Un mundo sin fin es un libro extraordinario, y ahora tengo que decir que compite con el puesto de Los Pilares. En este segundo libro Follet nos hace da un salto temporal y nos presenta una sociedad más evolucionada y con un interesante personaje protagonista femenino. Y es aquí donde creo que Follet dio en el clavo, creo que el cambio de sexo en su protagonista es lo que le da una riqueza y una manera de enfrentarse a los problemas totalmente nueva que sus personajes masculinos. Evidentemente recomiendo esta fantástica novela a todos los lectores de Los Pilares de la Tierra y de Ken Follet y animo a quién no lo haya hecho aún a leer estas dos épicas historias que de bien seguro os dejarán marcados para siempre.
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Jan 13, 2012 Kevin Xu rated it liked it · review of another edition

This book is like the book before the Pillar of the Earth in that it is about the lives of three or four main characters throughout their lives of childhood through adulthood seen through their troubles and hopes every so often in the the city of Kingsbridge, two hundred years after. It starts with two family, the family of Gwenda, who is poor and steals from Merthin and Ralph, making them without broke. It is a book that is epic with their struggle between the them along with other characters, ...more

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Aug 19, 2008 Leah rated it did not like it

Recommends it for: 'bodice ripper' fans looking for an "...epic historic novel..."

Recommended to Leah by: QPB sent it 'cause I'm slow at saying 'no'

"...epic, historic novel"??!
Good Lord, I must be reading a different book than everyone else.
This seems formulaic and forced. Characters are more like caricatures; and what's the deal with everyone fornicating all the time??! Not that there's anything wrong with fornicating per se, I just don't care for books that use it as a major plot device time after time after time.
I actually checked the cover to make sure it wasn't "Clan of the Cave Bear" 2.0...
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Oct 13, 2011 Becky rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction, romance-y, abandoned, reviewed, audiobook, disappointing, 2012

Let me preface this review by saying that I loved Pillars of the Earth. A lot. I thought it was almost perfect, in fact, except for one minor issue that I had with the dialogue sounding too modern for the time period (an issue I had with World Without End, too). After being engrossed in that book, loving, hating, caring about the characters in it, after feeling like I was living in Kingsbridge for 900 pages, I was excited for this follow up. I wanted more, I wanted to be back in that world, expe Let me preface this review by saying that I loved Pillars of the Earth. A lot. I thought it was almost perfect, in fact, except for one minor issue that I had with the dialogue sounding too modern for the time period (an issue I had with World Without End, too). After being engrossed in that book, loving, hating, caring about the characters in it, after feeling like I was living in Kingsbridge for 900 pages, I was excited for this follow up. I wanted more, I wanted to be back in that world, experiencing life right along with the people I was reading about, the people I cared about. So I picked this audiobook up and started it.

And all was good... for a while. It didn't take me long to start feeling that something was wrong. It didn't take me long to start feeling like Follett had ripped off his own book.

Maybe if I'd had 20 years to forget the details of Pillars before reading ~~Book~~ World Without End, maybe I wouldn't have felt the similarities as much, and I'd have liked it more. It isn't a BAD story, but I lost patience with it really quickly and then I stuck with it far longer than I should have hoping that it would come around. I made it 80%, and by the end, I couldn't tell you what happened, because I stopped listening. It was playing in the background while I worked, and I could hear it, but it wasn't holding my attention at all.

I wanted more of Follett's Kingsbridge world, yes, but I didn't expect Pillars of the Earth: Now With New Character Names! I wanted a different story. Instead, I got a rehash of Pillars, and so I kept comparing them in my head. "Oh, There's the devious, overbearing mother-plotter..." "Here's the Lord-Who-Thinks-He's-God..." "Another brilliantly talented at a really young age master craftsman... who woulda thunk it?" and so on and so on...

Did I like the characters? Yeah. Sure. I didn't care about them nearly as much as I cared about the Pillars characters though. Did I like the story? I guess.

I did love the performance though. John Lee read this audio, and he was great. But still... I just endured this one, rather than enjoyed it, and couldn't bring myself to keep going another twelve hours to finish.

Enough is enough. ...more

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Nov 25, 2008 Margaret rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommends it for: historical / medieval novel fans

Shelves: audio-books

A pretty darn good book - you laugh, you're horrified, the whole gamut - but what makes this a truly amazing "read" is the audio recording by John Lee, who is also the reader of Penguin Audio's recording of "Pillars of the Earth." Both recordings are well worth the time commitment to listen to 30+ (unabridged) CD's - I walked around and drove everywhere with my headphones on listening to both of these amazing books.

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Aug 22, 2013 Antonio rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: histórica, favorites

Follett es un misterio para mí, no sé cómo lo hace, como escribiendo libros de más de mil páginas, te mantiene interesado en todo momento y no te aburre, me agradan los libros largos, pero casi siempre me pasa que cuando estoy en una lectura extensa, de un momento a otro siento que me están metiendo relleno (muy al estilo de Naruto) y que el editor pudo haber hecho mejor su trabajo, pero me estoy yendo por las ramas, a lo nuestro.

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Jan 21, 2008 Krista rated it it was ok

I think Danielle Steele might have written parts of this; she must have at least been responsible for the overwrought plot and the ridiculous, unnecessary sex scenes. It was bawdy and endless, just like every Steele book I read as a blushing 12 year old. I also kept imagining Richard Chamberlin as Merthin, as the plot just kept going and going like the Thornbirds miniseries. There were about seven-hundred and fifty climaxes and denoument. Just when a character was happy, he or she would be destr ...more

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Mar 10, 2011 Bill rated it it was amazing

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I have finally finished this 1000 page novel and I am more than ready to move on.
If you have recently read Pillars of the Earth, and liked it, I would strongly recommend you take some time before diving into this one, because it's a long haul. It is very much the same pacing, and a similar setting as its predecessor, so unless you're a very fast reader (I'm not), 2000+ pages of 1100-1369AD England may wear very thin for you.

I waited about ten years, and so was very ready to revisit the town of
Ki I have finally finished this 1000 page novel and I am more than ready to move on.
If you have recently read Pillars of the Earth, and liked it, I would strongly recommend you take some time before diving into this one, because it's a long haul. It is very much the same pacing, and a similar setting as its predecessor, so unless you're a very fast reader (I'm not), 2000+ pages of 1100-1369AD England may wear very thin for you.

I waited about ten years, and so was very ready to revisit the town of
Kingsbridge.
Like Pillars of the Earth, World Without End centers on a cast of characters and their lives set against the rule of the Church, Earls and knights.
Unlike Pillars, the cast seems smaller than I remembered...the story follows two pairs of siblings, and their lives over thirty years or so, so this was great. Follett had less characters to spread out, and characterization was very nicely fleshed out.

Although this novel for some reason took me a month to read (I read it on my Kindle, but I seem to remember looking at the book a while back and noticed it was 1000 pages of very small print. I guess that's why), in no way did the story drag. This is Follett's talent. He can sure draw out a story and make you care about these people. I felt their joy, I was outraged at the injustices they were forced to endure, and I was hopeful of things to turn out for the best for everyone and the town, and for the evil ones to get what was coming to them.
Add in a dash of engineering lessons in building bridges and other structures and this makes for a fantastic read.
The only issue I had was that for the last 80 pages or so it seemed to me that Follett was stalling to end it. Clearly he was vested in these characters.
But it could very well be that after a month it was more a case of me getting antsy to move on to something else.
When I started writing this review, I was set on rating it a solid 4. But, I am very impressed with his ability to maintain the fast pace of story for a thousand pages.
So, really 4 and a bit, but I think I'll round up to 5 stars.
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Oct 29, 2014 Mary-jane rated it it was amazing

Πρόκειται για ένα εξαιρετικό βιβλίο όπου η ιστορια μπλέκεται με την πλοκή με τρόπο αριστοτεχνικό.Ούτε μια στιγμή δεν έπιασα τον εαυτό μου να βαριέται σε όλες τις 1237 σελίδες(τόσες είχε αγγλική έκδοση της panmachimilan).
Όσον αφορά την πλοκή ο FOLLET αξιοποιεί τέλεια τα ιστορικά δεδομένα όπως η πανούκλα και ο εκατονταετης πόλεμος για να προωθήσει την πλοκή του με ρεαλιστικό τρόπο.Μάλιστα εξεπλάγην οταν έμαθα πως Ι συγκεκριμένος συγγραφέας δεν είχε και πολύ σχέση με την ιστορια πριν γράψει το "The Πρόκειται για ένα εξαιρετικό βιβλίο όπου η ιστορια μπλέκεται με την πλοκή με τρόπο αριστοτεχνικό.Ούτε μια στιγμή δεν έπιασα τον εαυτό μου να βαριέται σε όλες τις 1237 σελίδες(τόσες είχε αγγλική έκδοση της panmachimilan).
Όσον αφορά την πλοκή ο FOLLET αξιοποιεί τέλεια τα ιστορικά δεδομένα όπως η πανούκλα και ο εκατονταετης πόλεμος για να προωθήσει την πλοκή του με ρεαλιστικό τρόπο.Μάλιστα εξεπλάγην οταν έμαθα πως Ι συγκεκριμένος συγγραφέας δεν είχε και πολύ σχέση με την ιστορια πριν γράψει το "The pillars of the earth".Ωστόσο,ερεύνησε σε βάθος το ιστορικό πλαίσιο με αποτέλεσμα και τα δύο βιβλία να θεωρούνται πλέον κλασσικά,όσον αφορά το ιστορικό μυθιστόρημα.
Οι χαρακτήρες ήταν επίσης πολύ καλα μελετημενοι.Λάτρεψα τον Merthin που είχε όραμα και αποφασιστικότητα σε συνδυασμό με την καλοσύνη.(SPOILERS!!!).Μίσησα αφάνταστα τον Godwyn που αναβλύζει σχετη κακία.Ήταν πιστεύω το τέλειο πορτραίτο μιας σημαντικής μερίδας κληρικών του Μεσαίωνα που δεν δίσταζε να πατήσει επί πτωμάτων αν ήταν να ανέβει βαθμίδα στην κοινωνική ιεραρχία.Ο χαρακτήρας ρου ήταν εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρον.Ο Ralph ήταν το αντίστοιχο τουWilliam(Pillars of the Earth) αν και ήταν λιγάκι πιο συμπαθής απ τον τελευταίο.Η Gwenda αντιπροσώπευε την τάξη των χωρικών του Μεσαίωνα και των δουλοπάροικων που προσπαθούσαν να επιβιώσουν υπό τη σκιά το φεουδαρχία τους.Ο χαρακτήρας που δεν συμπάθησα με τίποτα ήταν η Caris,ο τόσος εγωισμός της ήταν αχριαστος κατ' εμέ.Ο Merthin θα είχε ταιριάξει πολύ καλυτερα με τη Lady Philippa.
Αξίζει να διαβαστεί από όλους αυτό το βιβλίο,καθώς ειναι ο τύπος της επικής ιστορίας που θυμίζει κλασσικά αριστουργήματα όπως οι Άθλιοι η Η ιστορια δύο πόλεων,χωρίς τις εκτεταμένες ιστορικές και φιλοσοφικες αναφορές που μπορεί κάποιους να τους κουράζουν(εμένα πάντως μου αρέσουν και αυτές πολύ). ...more

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Aug 01, 2016 Orient rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: history fans

Shelves: bloody-romance, historical, desperado, horror, entertaining, hero, psychological, killer, favorites

Oh, what a long read it was, but no regrets - the book is really good. I was fascinated reading The Pillars of the Earth and "World Without End" enchanted me from the first pages.
„World Without End“ is considered the sequel to „Pillars of the Earth“, though none of the original characters reappear. However the descendants of the main family in “Pillars of the Earth” gather to tell the new story about Kingsbridge and the people tied to it. Beginning two centuries after "The Pillars of the Earth" in the same town, this book has a lot of interesting characters and combines three decades of love, action, treason, history, corruption, difficult and adventurous life. The characters are so lively and real. This book marks the new era to Kingsbridge, the era of new ideas about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice.

Though the technical things slowed me a little bit. Also I found some repetition (comparing the first and the second books) which reduced my fangirlism in some way, like: two brothers- one good and one bad. The good one is a great builder, not a great fighter, he has difficulties to reach the popularity, but after some time abroad he becomes skilled and famous. The bad one gets a bad end of course. The life long love of the main character suffers some hardship and creates something new in business.
There was much suffering, cruelty and injustice in the story so I couldn’t help but hope that at some point it must get better for the good and worse for the bad ones - this is after all a novel. I liked that the story line had so much unpredictable things. The author skillfully combines the important far off catastrophes into his book, like the Great Famine, the Peasant's Revolt, the Black Death and Hundred Years War. The lives and the towns are changed forever.

This book is not a history lesson about the fourteenth century, but a complex story about lives of ordinary people - their loves and losses, ups and downs, despair and suffering. It's a touching and cruel book, but the fourteenth century was a strange, cruel and dark time. And when I reached the last page, I knew that this is one of those books which I'll remember for a long time. I was spellbound by Mr. Follett‘s powerful vision of life in the Middle Ages. It is one more fascinating, mesmerizing and gripping book for me.
I tried to watch the TV-series "World Without End", but for me it was a real meh and even a badly made interpretation of the book. Though I really liked “Pillars of the Earth” screen adaptation. ...more

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Dec 27, 2007 Jillian rated it liked it

I got this book for Christmas and was so excited to start. I was a big fan of Pillars and figured I would love this as well. I liked it a whole lot, but definitely not as much as Pillars. The story was familiar (and at points almost a retread of Pillars). It was often anachronistic - especially the character of Caris. I loved her and I'm all for feminism and strong female characters, but it made me wonder how accurate and believable she really was. Clunky prose such as "she would have been alder ...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Karina rated it really liked it

World Without End is definitely not perfect-- it has a little too much in common with its predecessor, Pillars of the Earth, and its characters are too often painted only in black-and-white. Regardless of those flaws, I would probably give the book three stars if it weren't for one short plotline early in the book. Prior Phillip was one of my very favorite characters in Pillars of the Earth and his rise to the priorship was particularly enjoyable to read. Despite my trepidation over familiar plo ...more

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Oct 06, 2012 NiteReader rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, audio, epic, 2013-reads

5 EPIC STARS
I didn't believe I would like this book as much as the first one, The Pillars of the Earth. But Mr Follett has created the most vivid characters that I laughed with, cried for and rejoiced in. Another amazing book!

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Jan 14, 2017 Jason rated it really liked it

Another sweeping epic involving the village of Kingsbridge!

Can't wait for the third in this trilogy to arrive (out some time this year!). For anyone interested in starting this trilogy, I would say that you are not required to read The Pillars of the Earth before reading this. Although they centre around the fictional town of Kingsbridge, they take place centuries apart, and very little knowledge from Pillars is needed for World Without End.

I drew my own parallels while reading. Here's what I s Another sweeping epic involving the village of Kingsbridge!

Can't wait for the third in this trilogy to arrive (out some time this year!). For anyone interested in starting this trilogy, I would say that you are not required to read The Pillars of the Earth before reading this. Although they centre around the fictional town of Kingsbridge, they take place centuries apart, and very little knowledge from Pillars is needed for World Without End.

I drew my own parallels while reading. Here's what I saw:

Fourteenth century life resembles twenty-first century life in many ways. Mainly, social hierarchy is structured in a similar manner. Usually men hold positions of power; poor people often remain poor and subservient to the ruling class, and the powerful often earn more wealth at the expense of the poor.

I couldn't help but view Ralph to be very similar to Donald Trump in terms of his personality, his intelligence (or lack-thereof), and his style of rule. Throughout the tale, Ralph holds decade-long grudges against old rivals (Wulfric, namely) and even goes out of his way to ensure laws are created simply to punish this one man, with complete disregard of how it effects the rest of the people in the land. Sound familiar? He lacks emotional intelligence and is often outwitted by the people around him (Caris - a woman, which makes it even better - comes to mind) which he is too proud to admit, and which he covers up with an aggressive and tantrum-like attitude. I sometimes felt the only things that set Ralph and Trump apart were a few hundred years and a Twitter account. Of course, Follett wrote this novel well before Trump, but that's why good storytelling is so powerful - if done well, it has relevance for generations.

One thing I found interesting was the eventual rise and success of Caris. Initially, it seems as though nothing good can come of her life. Then, because of her own hard work, natural intelligence, and good nature, she rises to the top and becomes Prioress of Kingsbridge. However, even then, there are some powers that she is not allowed to wield simply because she is a woman. She holds a seat of power, but is still looked down upon by some (men, mostly) and it is always more challenging for her to hold the clout that is rightfully hers. I think this is interesting because it bears resemblance to life today. Woman often need to work twice as hard to reach a male-dominated position of power, and when they do, are often underappreciated.

George R.R. Martin is notorious for killing his characters, but Ken Follett also deserves such notoriety. In this novel, it was common for the first page of a chapter to announce the deaths of characters who were substantial at some point in the plot.

Something also of note, which also occurred in The Pillars of the Earth, is that Follett tends to leave some characters entirely forgotten. Certain men or women that appear early on and play significant roles end up disappearing for either a long period and show up later briefly alive or dead, or they are never spoken about again. I'm not sure why this is...perhaps Follett himself creates stories so long he forgets to bring them back into the story later on for continuity's sake?

One thing to gripe about: Ken Follett has a fascination with calling a man's penis his 'prick.' It's so annoying to me for some reason. It's a penis. A dick. A c*ck. Even a member. It should never be a 'prick,' in my mind. I feel that the word 'prick' is used often as a derivative to not sound so repetitive. But it should be omitted no less, it's just a terribly used synonym. Also the romantic scenes are sub par.

I would rate this somewhere between 4 and 5 stars (Goodreads, give us more star rating options!). On the whole, an immersive experience and enjoyable read. ...more

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Dec 08, 2016 ಠ‿↼Ｅｍ rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: Historical fiction lovers and those who like fast moving tales.

Shelves: ebooks, historical, part-of-a-group, series-part-of-a

4.5 stars.
One should applaud Follett for penning down a 1000 odd paged tome which is riveting from page 1, and which is able to sustain the flitty reader's (mine) attention till.the last.
This epic saga shows us how Kingsbridge is, a couple of decades after Jack.the builder built the church and csthedral(happenings of book 1). This story tells us about the lives of Merthyn, Caris, Gwenda, Ralph, Philemon, Wulfric and scores of others living their dramatic lives full of twists and turns and reads ...more

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Dec 19, 2008 Stephanie rated it it was ok

Total rip off of the first (Pillars of the Earth). Not impressed. Could barely get through it.

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Feb 18, 2008 Chris rated it liked it

Recommends it for: those who enjoy historical fiction

This novel is Follett's follow up to The Pillars of the Earth which is one of my favorite novels and probably never had a chance of living up to my expectations. It follows the lives of four people beginning with a disturbing childhood encounter. Four very different people: two brothers, one brilliant, but not physically imposing and one one strong and ruthless; and two women, both resourceful, but one from a wealthy family and one for whom life was one struggle after the next. Seeing how each p ...more

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Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 160 million copies of the 30 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 30 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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