Ken follet edge of eternity torrent download

Great book, Edge of Eternity pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Edge of Darkness by Cherry Adair. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Over a twenty-eight year historical arc, from through to , Follett presents his brilliantly researched novel, picking key events and weaving backstories for a plethora of characters, whose lives are more than vessels for the political and social upheaval seen throughout.

Even the most attentive reader may struggle with how the characters tie together, crossing national backgrounds and creating relationships that are best plotted on a genealogy tree. The novel is about more than living through history, but also using history as an ever-shaping backdrop. However, Follett pushes the argument in all three novels that history shapes not only borders and elections, but also those who create it, from commoner to political giant alike.

For those, like me, who invested the time in the audio version of the novel, a word about John Lee is surely in order. Lee, a master story teller with his nuanced accents and narrative abilities, brings the story to life with his ever-changing voices and calm style.

He takes on so many characters, but is sure to give each their own voice and personality. He is a Follett favourite when it comes to audiobook renditions, and Lee has done a wonderful job in colouring the narrative from the opening pages in a Welsh coal mine through to the election of a black president of the United States of America.

Kudos, Mr. Follett for this literary gem. I have and will continue to recommend the series to friends and fellow readers alike. I have read almost all of Ken Follett's books. They are great stories. Let me just say that if Ken Follet's new book is anything like his previous books, I believe it will be great.

I have to admit that I have only read the outline of the story but, from the little I read Follet's new book will be interesting. Sorry I if I gave the impression that I had already read the whole story.

Follett knows how to make you turn the pages. He's a master story teller. But this was a rush job, to the point of being insulting. Would a character in the s really say "yada, yada"? All the same I had to finish it - more fool me. Edge of Eternity reads like a Young Adult fiction. Plot lines follow the same routine as the last two books. All love angles seem forced in awkwardly. Very disappointing.

View 1 comment. Jul 23, Connie rated it really liked it Shelves: , audible-cd. I was anxious to get back to the continuing saga of these 5 families whose lives intertwine as history unfolds.

I am not sure I loved this one quite as much, as the time frame of the 's thru the 's were familiar to me as it is my history. Things were very familiar and I felt that I missed the "learning" part of his first two. That said, I am amazed at the amount of research 4. That said, I am amazed at the amount of research that Follett must do, and there were enough insider tidbits to make me sit up and take notice.

The story flows as history is made. Follett takes us through these historical events with characters that come from every walk of life, and he shows us both sides of the issues. And let me say, he is a master at this craft.

He does not make his characters real or fictional heroes, but he makes them human, full of great moments and full of flaws. This last of the series gave me a few characters that I did not like as much as previous books, did not warm too That is talent. I also felt there was a bit more "edginess" to this one, more grit Folks were not as genteel and well mannered.

I am sad to let these families and their histories go. I almost want to speed up time so that Follett may continue his saga into the 21st century Thank you Mr. Follett, not only for the history lesson but for a wonderful reading adventure, traveling the century with you.

Just a ps - I listened to the audible of this book, and did not enjoy the reader as much as the first two, perhaps because the "American voices" did not quite ring true. This is the third and final - and worst - installation of the "Century Trilogy" by Ken Follett. I listened to the audiobook, read with too much pomp and too little warmth by the actor, sounding like an anchorman from the '50s.

I was liking the book until about half way through, but the second part turned into a YA novel and went seriously downhill. Be warned: there is no real, degrees history here.

Most of it is over-simplified, cartoonish history, as seen through heavily left-leaning eyes. Yes, I enjoyed flashing through the Cold War period, while following the descendants of the five families that readers have been following since the first book, Fall of Giants, set against the background of WWI.

I give it 2 stars because it was ok to listen to, and it kept me company in my walks or car trips. But, unlike the first and second book, this third one has some very, very big issues. Ken Follett is a plot-driven writer. It's not that he doesn't write well, it's that he cares mostly about the story. His language is only a tool. He said that he wants his language to be like a "glass pane", that you can clearly see through to the story, while when a writer uses a richer or flowery language, the glass pane is distracting the reader from the story.

His favorite writers are Ian Fleming, Stephen King and the likes. In short, writers of fast-paced, action-packed stories. In fact, action scenes are where Follett really excels. BAD: the history is accurate, but it is reported with an awfully simplistic, politically charged, stereotypical approach.

What are the stereotypes about the Cuba crisis? Here you find them all. What are the stereotypes about the Watergate scandal? Did Kennedy sleep around and was gossiped to love rubber ducks in his bathtub?

Check and check, sleeping around and rubber ducks. Because, you know, that's something you just don't do. Not only Follett puts his own political agenda in the novel especially in the second part of the book , he also does it so superficially, with exactly the same high-school level of historic depth you would get from a drunk in a pub, telling you how Reagan was just a murderer and Nixon was nothing but a crook.

Trust me, you will find much more historical insight in the movie Forrest Gump. Everything is explained with the childishness of a cartoon. Even worse, it sounds like Follett's opinions are actually built on this type of cartoonish reconstruction of the events. The WORST thing of Edge of Eternity is that, while typically good historic fiction helps you get in the skin of the people who really lived in a specific time, in this book the characters are there to make only high-school history come alive.

They are not real people, they are puppets in the hands of a writer and his many ghost writers who seems to base his political opinions on a slim book of "World History". Real history is the real victim of this book. It is completely forgotten. BAD: Republicans and conservatives in general have zero positive traits. They are literally the baddies in this book. Aside from the other left-leaning narratives that Follett fully embraces, he reaches his peak when he presents the end of Communism purely as a spontaneous combustion, while explicitly describing the US and CIA foreign policy efforts during the Cold War as completely useless, as having no effect whatsoever on the the fall of Communism.

Therefore, every US foreign policy operation was totally stupid and worthless. The problem is that many teenagers will read Follett's own lefty narrative as if it was the only way to interpret the facts of the 20th century. BAD: every character is driven by ideals, and almost no one by self interest. Obviously, that takes a lot away from the sense of realism. Let's just say the characters never become real, not once. They are all symbols or tools Follett uses to make his own points, or at best they are the embodiments of wikipedia bullet points about the Cold War period.

He also seems to have a real soft spot for female characters who are self-righteous and aggressively moralizing. BAD: every single scene ends up in graphic, meticulously size-of-the-clitoris described sex. Far, far too much. Such a killer to the elegance of the overall work. Clearly a commercial decision, to sell to the lusty teens who enjoy that crap, but hey, Follett, did you forget that this really lowers the level of the book to the YA level?

No, worse: it's like having the rock band Kiss jump on stage every 15 minutes while you're seeing a serious well-played drama, and having them sing one of their loud songs, red tongues sticking out and all. Real trash. Your name is today a 35 people company The only reason I can think of is, more sales, more money. Bookmark This Page. Login: Password Register Remember Password.

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