Ken follet is a gifted writerand does not disappoint! Another follett page turner. Follett is a master story teller.

The storyline is amazing. Excellent plot interweave. Family conflicts, intrigue, greed & * abound.

This book is pure 8th grade drivel. Just a bunch of historical ramblings mixed in with strange gossip. This goes into the hopper of books that have taken up too many hours of my 5 score and ten. I am so tired of purchasing book for my kindle that end ...  Read More

Incredibly unrewarding. The sample rarely informs you of this impending trash!

The writing is sub par and the characters are all such a bunch of cardboard cutouts. The worst of ken follett's work.

The twists are too coincidental. Weakened by predictable characters and excessive, unnecessary and tiresome * scenes. I agree with many reviewers that this was a very formulaic novel.

Author expresses themselves very well throughout this literature. Good read for this interested in this genre. Highly recommend this book / author and seller.

It describes four levels of reading making a bigger emphasis on analytical reading and syntopical reading. It supplies fifteen rules which progress through the different stages of analytical reading.

Much of it is outdated with the onset of the internet, such as the point about skimming through the book to get an idea of what it is about - a task easily accomplished by a google search. It is even more useless for people such as myself who use eboo...  Read More

All mortimer does is to add lots and lots of padding and useless words to drive his point across. Writing is dated and far too detailed for most readers. Wish it were more concise.

The tone the author takes in the book is one of a snobbish literati. It takes simple ideas and elaborates on them with analogies and other stories that detract from the information that is imparted. The rambling is constant and a detriment to the purp...  Read More