How is this garbage a best-seller and so well recommended throughout the world? Ken Follett is an abysmally bad writer whose prose feels like reading a bad journalistic piece. I'm 1/3 in this behemoth and I already feel like dropping it. Should I?

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Anonymous Tue Nov 14 15:25:57 2017 No.10268943 [Reply] [Original]

How is this garbage a best-seller and so well recommended throughout the world? Ken Follett is an abysmally bad writer whose prose feels like reading a bad journalistic piece. I'm 1/3 in this behemoth and I already feel like dropping it. Should I?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 14 17:26:29 2017 No.10269384 >>10268943 Yes, drop it. My reaction was exactly the same. I had such hope, yet it was like a poor made-for-tv movie. All his work suffers from the same defects. Tragic, really.

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