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#1 davenport 18 år siden

Er der nogen her der har læst Jordens Søjler af Ken Follett? Er selv lige blevet færdig med den for 3. gang.
Til de interesserede, kan jeg glæde med at der kommer en 2er i Oktober: http://www.ken-follett.com/home/index.html (World Without End) Den foregår 200 år efter i Kingsbridge.

Er der nogen der ved hvor historisk korrekt JS er? Den har fået mig til at interessere mig for engelsk middelalder. Det er meget spændende. Hvis der er andre, der har det på samme måde, så viser DR2 en serie for tiden, hvor der er meget middelalder i. Tror det hedder noget med Kongelige Lidelser.

Her er en synopsis på den nye bog:
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed.

As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.

World without End is the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. However, it doesn’t matter which you read first. The second book is set in the same town, Kingsbridge, but takes place two hundred years later, and features the descendants of the original characters.
Min fars fætter, har bare mødt John Williams! Æh, Bæh!!
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#2 duuk74 18 år siden

Fedt mand. Elsker historiske bøger, og Jordens Søjler var kanon.
100.000 lemmings can't be wrong

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