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Ken Follett

I also love Ken Follet and have read many of his novels. I especially liked Eye of the Needle and Whiteout, which I listened to in audiobook.
 
About 5 years ago, Pillars of the Earth was a BOTM selection, and I reread it for the discussion, then Hurricane Katrina hit, and I missed the discussion. I enjoyed it the second time around as well, and have the "sequel", unread as of yet on my shelf.

The first Follett I read was Eye of the Needle, it really made an impression on me. Good stuff.I know I've read others, but the names escape me at the moment...I think The Key to Rebecca is one though.

Donald Sutherland played the protagonist in the film made of Eye of the Needle, and was properly kinky. :)
 
Finished Hornet Flight yesterday, loved it, as I do all of his WWII stuff. He's getting ready to release the first book of a planned trilogy in Sept:

Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...

These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.

In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.
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Ken Follett...an author who sits on my 'overrated author' list.

The Pillars Of The Earth and World Without End...excellent stories lost in Follet's telling of them.

I shall never understand why Follet's writing has received so much acclamation. But then who am I to criticise when my own writing skills are left wanting after a sentence or two. ;p
 
I've been a little disappointed in Pillars of the Earth in that it just doesn't hold my attention. I work on it when I'm between books, but put it down when I have something else to read. It may be the subject matter that bothers me, evil people hiding behind religion.
 
I tried reading Pillars of the Earth and put it down less than a hundred pages in. An extremely stupid event, actually two events, took place and if I was already rolling my eyes that soon into the story, I wasn't about to waste my time with nearly 1000 pages.

The writing itself was pretty amateur too.
 
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