89: The Pillars of the Earth

I've been running up a storm lately. I took this whole week off because the half marathon is in two days. I'm really excited. I know I can do this. I clocked 9 miles of running the other day and I'm all set for the big day.


oh yeah and I finally finished Pillars of the Earth. So here's the review.

Summary: Chronologically talks about one specific generation of family who's life ambitions are to help build a church cathedral from the ground up. Only one of the characters manages to even get to this point, which is at the very end. It goes through the order of trials and tribulations that the family goes through to get to the point of cathedral building. There is mass amounts of rape, war and foul language. 

Rating: 3/5  I def. wouldn't let a very impressionable child read this. Don't get me wrong it's a good read but It's not for the young at heart. The rape scenes were so descriptive I felt like I was there and not in a good way. I even turned away from the book at one point. I've heard war and peace supposedly are along the same lines but I guess I need to read to find out. It was an interesting book, however very large at 957 or 967 pages. It took nearly a whole month to finish. I was interested in seeing the tv show related to this book but after reading about all the rape scenes I'm not so sure anymore.