![]() ![]() Something, in other words, for everyone.įollett’s book, a kind of learned potboiler, is very long, and like the cathedrals he writes about - the building of one is central to his story - it gains gravity with size. ![]() Set mostly in and around the fictional town of Kingsbridge, which should not be confused with the actual British town of Kingsbridge, during a violent period of English history known as the Anarchy, which should not be confused with that song by the Sex Pistols, it is a tale of holy aspiration and earthly skullduggery, as various characters build monuments to God, fight for titles, feather their nests, fall in love, have sex in a cave, or invent the credit system and the flying buttress. Starz, which has found success with its historical sword-and-sauciness series “Spartacus,” updates the mix a millennium or so and raises the tone a bit with “The Pillars of the Earth,” an eight-hour adaptation of Ken Follett’s 1989 thousand-page novel of medieval England. ![]()
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