The Pillars of the Earth #1 by Ken Follett
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The Pillars of the Earth 1/3
By Ken Follett
A very intricate and political novel. The Pillars of the Earth had plenary of plot twist, dark times, and heart wrenching possibilities.
One family’s linage including their journey to become a family of builders and the pressing generational desire to building a cathedral. The drama that the family was a result of, as well as the church, and lords of the lands, and the effect when building the cathedral.
Full of Intricate details that are only some of the moving parts in the hard lived of the people and the bringing up of the cathedral -oh so longed dreamed of.
Plenty of monsters among men, providing opportunity for the reader to connect and deeply empathize with the characters. The Women in this book truly bear the burden of abuse.
Tom was a source of frustration for me, as was his son, both unable to setting boundaries with the church and their family’s.
William is a thing of nightmares, and was the true villain of this story.
The brother monks lives, offer up a beautiful example, of one outcome that stemed from one strangers braver and good deed.
I enjoyed the brother monks the best out of all the characters in the story.
Over all it was an intriguing, definitely on the dark side for most of the story line.
The pictures the author paints when
portrays the rough way people had to live, the exceptions they made, and the evilness that runs deep in some people, offers up a truly eye opening drama with plenty of historical references.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys drama and or historical fiction.
Please look up trigger warnings before reading.
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My thoughts as i read the first half ………
I was really starting to admire Tom and his dedication to his family.
But here he is lusting after an outlaw woman right in-front of his pregnant wife and children.
Comparing his family to Elaine and her sons ability to read and write proficiently.
ToM!!!!! - worry about your own family!
I’m devastated while reading today, every woman deserves to feel beautiful and to have a home. They really took from her until the very last even after her passing. What a rough life she had. Poor baby as well.
Tom’s true colors really came true and then the woman from the woods pops out in snags her husband within a couple hours. Oh my, and the brother monks what a special gift they had a patient Caring loving figure.
So exciting to see how the brother monks settle and effect the overall effects of the church in that area and time.
This William is a things of nightmares - please don’t make her marry him. What a dark individual not enough words.. literally looking for a woman to violate, monster.
Wrapping around to Tom and his family, disgusting 🤢
Romance didn’t have time, survival and moving in for Tom, what a perspective living this way one would have.
I think tom is in for a ride with his lady, she doesn’t seem like the kind to make excuses for a man like his first wife did. Better find a job fast Tom.
I wonder why Tom has such a drive or dream to work on a church, is it that work is more likely or that he has another reason?
Still amazing how fate in this story plays out that baby got boomeranged back to them. Even if not fully what are the slim chances of the same baby and the same monk meeting up with the same builder. My faith in Tom has not been restored just yet and i think this patched family feels the same.
Honestly the brother monks sound like a more stable and promising home when compared to Tom and his choices.
Interesting feeling a little cheated or manipulated Tom? I mean dang, I guess her son got him a job but honestly look at the patterns, she must have learned to manipulate at any means necessary and obviously her son has too.
The reason she left the forest was for her son she stated and now Tom is setting his children not equally but above her son.
I would be suprised if she stays with Tom for long.
Omg yes!!! Girl better walk away from all that nasty noise - by Tom!!!!
Oh dang she peed on it 🫡 that’s honestly a common reaction to Pious mean, you got a problem with the naked, then the women will get all naked to make you uncomfortable - projection returned 👏👏👏👏👏 she better leave Tom is not protecting her.
She is now my favorite character so far - i would leave him as well - i still feel awful for his late wife she never got what she should have, maybe didn’t know any better.
Don’t stay with Tom he’s is unstable and isn’t a protector at all. She is to good for him, take the boy and run -
no time you can’t come.
And his main thought is loosing the physical intimacy - gross Tom gross 😷
She pretty much says i can do better on my own go girl go!!!!!
Hahahahaha called it 🫡
No Tom she isn’t gonna come back lol 😂 she will remember being hungry - her son remembers his face getting smashed in - she will remember you left her to the monks messed up humiliation
The alright is fawning i bet, she’s gonna say what you want so she can leave safely.
He deserved it In my opinion.
William is so scary 😦 no thank you, no one does anything about it ewwww…
Not gonna lie I skipped that part - no thank you - a bit to much for me
Chapter 5 - omg why are there so many monster among men for real
Chapter 5 - Trigger warning - violent graphic sexual assault
They are having really bad luck at the least - horror story scene one after the other.
She is right her brother does need to start toughing up or he won’t make it. He’s getting his butt kicked.
Now we get to see the back stories and more politics concerns the church and the characters connected at the time.
William is so scary, he really is nightmare material.
Just a lot of awful William and all the traumatic things he brings about to boost his sad sad little ego. Hate hate hate William.
Arriving at chapter 10
Tom is pathetic all the way to the end. I bet she didn’t give him any more babies on purpose. So now her son has to be a monk or lose his dream. Tom “you son” is gonna cross the wrong path soon i bet.
Yeah yo all the market success way to go lady being a ram strong independent woman in a time when that wasn’t a thing. Hope she find the love she’s starting to miss.
The bear bating omg, and he lost the little one during that why would you not watch extra close TOM !!!!! oh yeah your an idiot !!!!!
This poor poor baby Tom should not be responsible for others ever of any age no no no …. Feeling the stress this man creates from here.
well Tom is gone and now we are on the journey of his sons. Jack is his step son but a much better man then Alfred. First the fight over the cathedral now over the same woman
Aliana is living a life for another her spoiled out of touch brother. Now she will throw away love over a promise to a dead man to protect a pretentious boy.
How could she share that intimacy and love with Jack and still refuse him. He has no choice but to leave she isn’t giving him choices. My heart breaks for Jack more then hers.
He even goes as far as asking Alfred to please give her up. Alfred is selfish i doubt he would even care. Alfred only wants her because Jack loved her.
I am so sad for her but for Jack to know it will happen and have to watch it, so devastating.
Here comes momma with her curses and shocking displays - what you gonna do, you still gonna marry the monster.
she did - I’m sure the wedding night will bring out his true colors :(
I’m skipping it he’s already being awful skip skip Skip ….
she’s sleeping at the foot of his bed now - uh imagine that everyone hated him and i bet she’s pregnant. So both women get to live in hell and be unhappy due to one man. Stupid choices ladies stupid choices, all because she made a promise to a dead man to be a mother to her childish brother.
Girl you got crap and you signed up for it.
Wonder whose baby it is, could be Alfred’s or Jacks and now she is 3 months in and no monthly, dang girl trapped to the end now.
so icky her husband can’t get it done and now she’s gonna be living that way - we’ll be deserved it marring her to torcher her.
The baby is Jacks hahaha 🤣 yes yes - let pack up and go find him
The drama omg - she married the awful brother Alfred and he’s a monster but she is prego with The step brother jacks baby - i vote she packs up and disappears from crazy and go tell her baby daddy what’s up. How does your wife go through pregnancy and labor and you don’t even notice? How?!?!
But no she had to run around while in labor now she’s knocked out and who knows….. omg the baby is alive!
Girl!!!! You got so lucky and you ditched the shitty husband and got your baby all to yourself. She almost had to die to do it but hey it’s done.
omg this book, I am getting excited to watch the tv show but i have two more giant books after this before I’ve read it all.
This baby is a miracle baby surviving everything - On a journey with mom to find the builder with red hair - that’s makes the twisted sculptures
Wow superstition is strong in these times, congrats on the family reunion 2x over jack.
The pillars of the earth by Ken Follett
dam all the men in this family loosing the women they love and no family life all for a building project.
It’s so hard to imagine how hard that is for her to have those babies and still have to leave him. 10 years is to long to wait for a father and a husband. Choose your monks Jake you knew she deserved more.
Chapter 16 - taking a break so much sexual assault she just wanted to be free from all the men taking and taking :( in the end they just took More