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Pillars of the Earth

Book · Literary & classic fiction · 31 mentions · 5 subreddits · discussed in r/suggestmeabook, r/bookreviewers, r/Fantasy, r/BookRecommendations

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Pros

  • Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett
  • I know that loves Dune and Pillars of the Earth, so big sweeping stories with a lot going on are his thing.
  • Pillars of the earth is amazing.
  • Not fantasy but Shogun, Wolf Hall and Pillars of the Earth are good for this
  • Pillars of the earth

Cons

  • Yeah, I’m moving on. Got to chapter 6 and it just wasn’t working for me... Pillars of the Earth was a let down.
  • I was pretty disappointed. Credit where it's due: the architectural history was very well done. But the characters, the prose, the plot were all mediocre at best. Good guys are good, bad guys twirl their mustaches and do lots of evil and...
  • On one hand, this was an incredibly easy read for the most part. The impossible to visualize architectural details were rough but besides that, its a story that moves along at such a nice pace... On the other hand, now that i'm done, it...
  • I feel the exact same way about Pillars of the Earth. The multiple SA scenes are so, SO unnecessary and really made my apathy about the story ramp up to actual hatred of the book.
  • so I picked up Pillars of the Earth but sadly got mad at it (justice for Agnes!!).

Sentiment

25 positive (81%) · 1 mixed (3%) · 5 negative (16%)

Trust + time weighted score: +68% · raw score 65%

What redditors said (10 of 31)

Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett
positive · u/W****n · r/suggestmeabook · comment · Aug 24, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I know that loves Dune and Pillars of the Earth, so big sweeping stories with a lot going on are his thing.
positive · u/e****8 · r/suggestmeabook · Aug 15, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Pillars of the earth is amazing.
positive · u/s****5 · r/suggestmeabook · comment · Aug 11, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Not fantasy but Shogun, Wolf Hall and Pillars of the Earth are good for this
positive · u/R****0 · r/Fantasy · comment · Jul 17, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Yeah, I’m moving on. Got to chapter 6 and it just wasn’t working for me... Pillars of the Earth was a let down.
negative · u/h****y · r/bookreviewers · comment · Jul 15, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I was pretty disappointed. Credit where it's due: the architectural history was very well done. But the characters, the prose, the plot were all mediocre at best. Good guys are good, bad guys twirl their mustaches and do lots of evil and rape.
negative · u/C****n · r/bookreviewers · comment · Jul 14, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
On one hand, this was an incredibly easy read for the most part. The impossible to visualize architectural details were rough but besides that, its a story that moves along at such a nice pace... On the other hand, now that i'm done, it is pretty repetitive.
mixed · u/L****0 · r/bookreviewers · Jul 14, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
positive · u/R****1 · r/suggestmeabook · comment · Jun 29, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I feel the exact same way about Pillars of the Earth. The multiple SA scenes are so, SO unnecessary and really made my apathy about the story ramp up to actual hatred of the book.
negative · u/E****6 · r/suggestmeabook · comment · Jun 24, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Pillars of the earth
positive · u/l****6 · r/suggestmeabook · comment · Jun 22, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗

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