On a suggestion made on this forum, I recently read the series. Decent enough pot-boilers, but if you've read one, then you dont need to read the rest. Essentially it's the same story and same characterisation, set in different eras.
Are you referring to KF?
Yep - referrring to the KF 'Kingsbridge' series. Wont spoil it for others, but similar characters pop up in each book (each book being set about 200years after each other). Maybe its reading the series that does it? (Ps. I enjoyed them)Are you referring to KF?
I read Pillars of the Earth after watching and enjoying the ITV series (still available). Then, earlier this year I bought and read the Armour of Light not realising it was book 5 (PotE being 1) in the series. They're set 600 years apart and I found very little to connect the two other than Kingsbridge.
I enjoyed them both but I'm in no rush to read 2, 3 and 4 because its a "series". I recently bought "Never" by him, yet to be read. With that and WaP I think 2025 is written off!
"Never", contemporary setting, is 800+ pages.
I’m glad you’ve said that as it’s kind of what I’ve been thinking might be the case; it’s a heck of a commitment reading a book the size of TPotE to discover you’d already been there, seen it, done it.
Good chance you’ll recognise the plot from before…
You're gonna be well 'ard!
only a few days ago I stumbled across the fact that Peter May went to the same secondary school as me - albeit a good few years before me - and that in his book 'Runaway' his descriptions of his school and teachers are such that, though not named, the teachers - as well as the school - are recognisable to pupils of my later time..
Interesting…might give it a look as my grandfather was landed at Gallipoli and served on the Bulgarian front (in the Scottish Horse and Black Watch) before serious illness saw him out of there before being deployed to France/Belgium prior to being shot and invalided out.
