![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, it would cost an absolute fortune to rent this. We learn that medieval students used to hire books by the page. World Without End (Kingsbridge Series 2) by Ken Follett 4.3 (1151) Paperback 23.00 Hardcover 33.50 Paperback 23.00 eBook 9.99 Audiobook 0. Avid Folleticians will find nothing to complain about others may weary of perfunctorily generic prose ("Margery's hand flew to her mouth in the eternal gesture of surprised guilt") while personages such as Merthin Builder (the builder), John Constable (the watchman) and Tam Hiding (the outlaw) seem mere empty vehicles for Ken Pageturner to show off his research. Not all that well, as it turns out, for within the first few hundred pages the tower has collapsed and now it is the responsibility of the descendants of the architect to put everything back together while going off to fight wars, survive plagues and sire a confusing number of illicit children. Follett's latest medieval epic returns to Kingsbridge a couple of hundred years after The Pillars of the Earth told the story of the masons who built the town's cathedral. A book which goes on for over 1,200 pages. ![]()
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