alanbeeb
pfm Member
It was indeed the minutiae that did for her. She read me a passage which had me in stitches by the time she reached the end, so full was it off jargon and banality ( taken out of context of course). It reminded me of Harrison ford complaining of his part on star wars and saying that you can write this shit but try saying it!
Yes they could be quite good stories but the dialogue was diabolically bad!
I'd forgotten Ken Follet... He's never going to win literary prizes, but the scale and epic sweep of the Pillars of the Earth series are very impressive and I enjoyed them a lot.