The Century Trilogy (8 books in series)
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review 1: É-me sempre difícil começar a opinião destes livros do Ken Follett, porque sinceramente?, como é que se disseca uma obra tão complexa, intrínseca, rica em pormenores e em vivências, em estórias humanas e em redes de acontecimentos de causa-efeito com esta? Ainda sem ter lido o úl...
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review 1: This is the second of the trilogy and I really liked this one as it was easier to connect with the character as all are carried from the first one. One will certainly have better understanding of the actual fact of the world war II. There are sad ending of few character, such as ...
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review 1: I enjoyed the first book in this series, so it was logical that I continue on with the second. Since my particular area of historical interest is the Nazi era, I found is book to be even more intriguing than the first. The author interweaves the characters from the families in ...
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review 1: Definitely not my favorite Follett book. It was really engrossing initially but then half way through started to drag. A lot of the war scenes were surprising kind of boring and I skimmed through many of the overly detailed political discussions, which I suppose some people could...
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review 1: As a history student focusing on European history -- and most recently having taken a graduate course on WWI -- I really appreciated Follett's note at the end on how he writes his historical fiction: if he finds that a scene could not have realistically taken place of if a charac...
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review 1: Everything you always wanted to know about World War One, the rise of European Socialism, and the Communist Revolution, but were afraid to ask...or didn't even begin to know enough about to attempt a simple question. True to form, Ken Follet brings history alive with sassy charac...
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review 1: I feel as if I have accomplished a life goal, having completed the Ken Follett trilogy that he calls “The Century Trilogy.” “The Edge of Eternity” does not close out the century—it stops in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall—but it is a pretty comprehensive, if digested summar...
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review 1: I read these three books as one immense book, over three thousand pages long. This book as the second follows similar patterns to The Fall of Giants in that it follows the five families as they wend their ways through the English, Russian, German, Black and White American experie...