{"id":1447,"date":"2013-08-18T08:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2015-05-31T09:01:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:01:01","slug":"world-without-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"World Without End"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ken Follett, 2008, New American Library, Penguin Books Ltd., London<\/p>\n

I am a bit conflicted on this book.\u00c2\u00a0 Follett is a very good writer who can keep the pace going in his novels, at least to some extent.\u00c2\u00a0 This particular book, however, I would call “Novel Without End” as it is over 1,000 pages and keeps going on and on.\u00c2\u00a0 The setting is interesting as are the characters, but the theme is very repetitive.\u00c2\u00a0 The bad characters and the good characters clash, the bad ones seem to be the victors, some time elapses and the good characters figure out a way to overcome the bad ones.\u00c2\u00a0 The good characters live for a while reaping the benefits of their new situation and then the bad characters try a new scheme and the plot repeats itself.<\/p>\n

Follett employs sixth grade prose to keep the book moving forward.\u00c2\u00a0 This technique seems to be a bit more appropriate for the suspense novels he has written versus a supposedly serious novel depicting the life and times of medieval England.<\/p>\n

All in all, the novel seems to be a bit of a downgrade from Pillars of the Earth, <\/em>the prequel of this novel.\u00c2\u00a0 While it was interesting, it didn’t seem to be as enjoyable as the first one.\"3<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ken Follett, 2008, New American Library, Penguin Books Ltd., London I am a bit conflicted on this book.\u00c2\u00a0 Follett is a very good writer who can keep the pace going in his novels, at least to some extent.\u00c2\u00a0 This …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}