Follett is not a good writer, but he does tell a good story and I liked the history involved. Shardlake is on my list for this Fall. I added him when you posted your suggestions a few months ago. I just read At Home by Bill Bryson and really enjoyed all the historical info, now reading People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (again not literature, but the history is good - about saving and restoring an old haggadah). Cleopatra by Stacey Shiff is next, then Shardlake.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <wayback71@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > So says a scholarly article at the following link, which > > > describes a newly-restored stone tapestry in Westminster > > > Cathedral, which some believe reveals the date of Doomsday. > > > http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/5731/weaving_the_worlds_end.html > > > > > > Fascinating article, really. > > > > > It is. Ken Follett (Pillars of the Earth) could do a whole > > book about this this beautiful stone work. > > Oh, please, no. I just finished Pillars, and I kept > wishing C.J. Sansom, author of the Matthew Shardlake > novels I posted about here awhile back, could have > written it. What a contrast! Such great material, and > such a pedestrian treatment by Follett. Maybe if I > hadn't read the Sansom novels first, I wouldn't have > been so disappointed. >
