The Pillars of the Earth Book Review

In this video, I discuss my review of Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Enjoy!

[@breebeal3344]

I just started reading Pillars of the Earth and I absolutely ❤️ it. I bought all the books in the series. Ken Follett is my new favorite author 🙂

[@saveasdoc]

fantastic review, Jon! added this to my Goodreads list. love the comparisons and contrasts you made with other books, and how open-minded you are in enjoying a book you "disagree" with but still love what it's trying to say in its themes and ideas.

[@naptowner82]

I have been a Pillars of the Earth fan for many years, recently finished the Evening and the Morning, which is sort of a prequel to the Kingsbridge stories. It’s a great book also, I loved learning about the history of Kingsbridge before it became Kingsbridge.

[@Fulcrum-sf5zb]

I really appreciate you defending the Christianity. I’m a Christian myself, and it can be pretty vexing to see a lot of people’s opinions on Christianity in the world of book tube. It’s refreshing to see a booktuber actually defend Christianity. I definitely feel in the minority in the world of book enjoyers, with my views, so it’s always good to see someone else with similar views.

[@murph-4]

Jesus is King!!!

[@repskillian1313]

​@@murph-4idk about that chief

[@erikskywalker3130]

I really appreciate your willingness to cover books that don’t align directly with your beliefs. That goes a long way as a creator and you have my upmost respect. I may have to check this out as I have always wanted to check out more historical fiction and enjoy GoT. Thanks Jonathan!

[@_Mike.85]

Was just about to echo the same sentiments. He shows a real maturity towards reading which a lot of other booktubers could do well to imitate instead of wholesale calling things "pRoBlEmAtiC" all the time. Very refreshing. This is the way. (and I'm saying this as an atheist myself)

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Follett is one of those 'best served hot' authors. I love all his books

[@HERNDONADER]

Like Follett (as you probably know lol) I’m an atheist. I haven’t read this book so I couldn’t comment on the negative aspects that it portrays. That being said I really like the idea of a novel showing the disparate aspects of life during the 12th century. I’m very much looking forward to reading it. Btw, I’m about 150 pages into Fall Of Giants of the Century trilogy and it’s amazing, I think you’ll love it! Great review Jonathan!

[@geauxreadbooks]

Great review! This is a book I’ve wanted to read for a while, however you are the only reviewer that I have heard warn about the extensive explicit nature of the book. I try to stay away from overly explicit content. So thanks for the heads up!

[@NevsBookChannel]

Fantastic review. Really interesting to hear about the Christian aspect.

[@binglamb2176]

One of the best books I have ever read. The characters and the story will stick with you for a long time. I have also read the following entries in the Kingsbridge series and thoroughly enjoyed them as well. I will disagree, however, with your sense of how Christianity was dealt with. I thought it was very realistic especially when you consider the vast majority of those who professed to be Christians through the ages did so with less than pure intentions and principles. Of course that expediant form of belief continues today.

[@seansheppard8635]

Great book! The second one, World Without End is very good too.

[@RedFuryBooks]

Pillars is a top 10 book of all time for me. It sounds like you would enjoy Guy Gavriel Kay's works, if you haven't read him yet. Very much historical fantasy but with a minimal use of magic or fantastical things.

[@josiahpeterson1694]

It makes me really excited that you loved this book so much. I kinda wanted to read it this year but I don't think I'll get to it. It's definitely a priority for next year though!

[@dyscalculic]

Just bought a copy for my library, thank you!

[@fjuran1]

You should check out World Without End, not a true sequel but set over 100 years later in Kingsbridge, and deals with the Black Plaque.

[@jacketernity4609]

Great video as always!

[@TheJFGB93]

I've had a copy in Spanish and other in English of this book for a while now and I haven't been able to pick either to read it. It really is intimidating. I've also watched how Mr. Durfee has recommended it through a lot of his videos, and I think your video complements his, at least for what interests me in a book of this kind.

[@wheelz1325]

Well if I wasn't excited to read Ken Follett work I am now

[@diegocastillo7760]

Really interested in this one after this fantastic review. Just wondering but have you checked out the “first law” trilogy by Joe Abercrombie?? Currently reading through the first book and am absolutely loving it!! Definitely worth checking out Jonathan!

[@jonathankoan]

I haven’t read it yet but intend to.

[@CptRoboto]

👍🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@circe9944]

i defenetly read it too young tbh

[@JoelAdamson]

I didn't read it in three days, but I think I took only a week or so. It was so engrossing I was reading up to 200 pages a day. World Without End is also GREAT. Pillars of the Earth had a wonderful TV miniseries adaptation. The adaptation of World Without End was AWFUL 😅😅

[@jonathankoan]

Good to know.

[@JoelAdamson]

@@jonathankoan And you're right about Follett's cynical view of religion. It was just the de facto view of religion among intellectuals in the eighties and nineties. I hear people talking like this today and I'm just like "we've got different problems now." You can see the same thing in some of GRRM's short fiction. It seems so trite now 😆

[@_Mike.85]

@@JoelAdamson "we've got different problems now", this made me laugh out loud. great comment.

[@rodneynicholauson4566]

What are TOMEs?

[@jonathankoan]

Really Long books. Some people define a tome as 1,000 pages, some people define Tomes as around 500 or more pages.