Have been enjoying reading Ken Follett's A Column of Fire and will be continuing to do so, since I'm only just over the half-way mark. Well-crafted story-telling with some genuine insights into life in Elizabethan times. Having said that, it lacks the almost mythic power of The Pillars of the Earth. There were moments when the earlier novel transcended craft but it would have been foolish to have expected that level of inspiration to be replicated, and I didn't. But I did expect a good tale, and definitely got that - in fact, several neatly inter-woven stories.
And another thing I like about Follett: he does decency so well. Sometimes it's nice to know whose side you should be on.
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