Hey folks, I really enjoy reading books when I'm incarcerated, especially if they're long as fuck. One of my favorite authors is Kevin Follet, better known as Kevin Filet-o-Fish, he writes some fire book sand is like 60 years old (people that begin their literary writing careers in the 20s with successful novels generally only get better and better till about 80 when they're too old to construct long winded plots like Harpee Lee, Steinbeck, etc)
So ok here me out, this nigga is only getting better at writing. I've read about 75% of his books. This series is 4 part tome. Now I'm talking about 950 pages of small print, 1100 on the second one, 980 on the fourth one. (we'll get to the missing third book soon)
So the book is about uh ok so i haven't read the first one in awhile, like 8 or 9 years. I found it in the non library book pile (where you can take them and have them forever and destroy them or color on them or anything, like books they getting rid of) without a cover. I made sure the last page was there (a lot of people are dicks in prison and rip out the last chapter for lulz then write "haha bitch!" on the last page)
so i'm thinking ok and read probably 8 books so far by Ken Follet and they were pretty aight, his older ones like the Key to Rebecca were 1970 or so era, you can tell he evolved as an author. And as a best selling author he got to devote his life to researching relatively obscure topics which brings us to the first book in this series:
summary from my bad memory:
This one nigga builds bridges or some shit, and by nigga i mean an strong pure anglo saxon white man who is not gay at all like bradleyb but not as good looking but equally smart (which is very) so he be building bridges, oh by the way it's like 1235 AD and the romans run england. So this nigga good as fuck at building bridges and kinda comes up with some ideas that make his bridges super leet and he gets asked by the church (the great authority of the land at this time) to start working on cathedrals. Now you might htink this is boring but it follows his 35 year career as he builds cathedrals. at one point his wife gets raped by his brother and ken follet is a dirty man and probably a sadist cuz he wrote like 4 microprinted pages of the rape which kinda says a lot the ending is kinda i don't know, good but not memorable it follows a bunch of the improvements in archetecture.
oh and there's some buttfuckery (homo) between a priest and a young (but legal age) boy. I jacked off to that part.
summary from Wikipedia
The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Welsh author Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England. Set in the 12th century, the novel covers the time between the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket, but focuses primarily on the Anarchy. The book traces the development of Gothic architecture out of the preceding Romanesque architecture, and the fortunes of the Kingsbridge priory and village against the backdrop of historical events of the time.
it was pretty fire.
Second book in the series:
World Without End
It follows the niggas great grandson who also is an innovator but this one is more focused on a plot (thank god) i was on a lot of shitty drugs at the time so I dont remember good details but essentially it has the black death and a long war and there's more rape (but no gay shit) and basically painted the catholics as pieces of shit with their ulterior motives for the 100 years war
summary from the interwebs:
World Without End takes place in the same fictional town as Pillars of the Earth — Kingsbridge — and features the descendants of some Pillars characters 157 years later. The plot incorporates two major historical events, the start of the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death.
apparently they made this into some faggoty ass TV miniseries along with the first book. Kinda cringy lookin, but IDK I don't suck BBC but in England it was pretty popular on their socialist television station.
There is a third book, but because I don't actually buy books that are fictional (Not paying for lies), i also don't reread fiction books except 1984, but i do reread non fiction books to further learn and enhance my recall so anyway, I didn't really know there was a third book but apparently there is. Not gonna post the summary cuz i'll probably read it in my next prison bid.
But anyway, the third book is called A Pillar of Fire. This niggas books are just getting better and better not gonna lie.
As many of you know I worship Odin, the alfather of the Germanic pantheon, so get this!!!
I'm at the library in the colored part of town and they have a book sale, hardcover 2$ softcover 1$ and I see a book with Runes on the binding and i grab it on a lark, see it's a kevin filet of fish book, about VIKINGS. READY FOR THIS
DUDE WROTE A PREQUEL (that's a pre book before another book that previously was released) about England leading up to the Pillars of the Earth novel!!!!
I was like no fucking way, and because niggers don't read 960 page books about White people in 997AD the shit was brand new, the coverpaper wasn't even creased. And it's all about Odin worshipping vikings raiding Normandy & northern England just straight fucking these christians and im like yaaaa! and all his books are relaly factually accurate so i'm like a hunnit pages into it cuz i got it two days ago and there's been a countess daughter who was fuckin on this other little girl and she was a freak and then she finds this big strong bradleyB lookin ass nigga from far away who was sent to her town to ask her father for help defending against hte viking berserkers (raiders) and she was steady gettin piped aned then there's another angle where this boat building family survives a viking raid but the town burns so they gotta go try farming at this shitty estate some gay (literally a homo) priest gave them because it's worthless land and it's pretty straight how the different protaganists are all coming together.
Haven't seen too much of the Odin worshipping guys but I'm sure they'll be included in the 85% I have remaining. All of them look like BradleyB and are really successful and violent and have huge cocks.
summary
The Evening and the Morning is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. It is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth set starting in 997 CE, and covering a period in the late Dark Ages and under the backdrop of Viking raids, through the year 1007 CE. The book expands upon the history and founding of the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England, and the construction of the bridge and cathedral there. It was released on September 15, 2020
shit was a 34.95$ book on the MSRP that's expensive as fuck and it's got Rating: 4.6 with 54,206 reviews. That's pretty fucking good for a historical adventure novel about a fucking boat builder's son and some young little slut.
54k reviews in 22 months? God damn and that's just Amazon.
& that folks wraps up my book series review of the kingsbridge series by ken filet o' fish
