Of course, gifting the first volume alone would be a good idea, too. I believe that this series would make an absolutely brilliant gift idea for anyone male or female who likes a good historical novel.
I looked for and with some difficulty eventually found a boxed set both in paperback and hardcover editions. You can find the Century Trilogy in hardcover, paperback and electronic versions on Amazon by clicking right here. Ordinarily, I prefer to read physical books because I spend much of my working life using a computer but in this case because of the sheer weight of these books I really, truly preferred to read them on my cellphone. We own the hardcover version and each I just weighed them and discovered that each one weighs an average of just over 3 pounds. The three-book series contains 2,991 pages and each book is encyclopedic in length so for ease of reading I highly recommend purchasing it as an eBook or if not an eBook, then as a paperback book. Leaving the second book, WINTER OF THE WORLD, for a grumpy old geezer in A MAN CALLED OVE was downright difficult although worthwhile in the end.Ĭurrently, I have had to put the third book, EDGE OF ETERNITY, down to read LEAN IN, a book about women, work, and the will to lead, which is not compulsive reading for me and definitely not middle-of-the-night when-you-cannot-sleep reading. I am often pulled away kicking and screaming from books in order to turn my attention to an “assigned” book club book. I picked up the first book, FALL OF GIANTS, as a good long read for our recent Panama Canal cruise and I have been steadily working my way through the series for a couple of months. To tell this story, Follett skillfully weaved together generations of five families from America, Russia, Germany, England and Wales.
Those story lines include the Russian Revolution, the suffrage movement, the rise of Nazi Germany, World War II, the atomic age, the Cold War, civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution, rock and roll and of course both good and bad from all of those time periods. The three books are based on what happened in world history between the years of 19. I am thoroughly enjoying Ken Follett’s the Century Trilogy and totally unable to put it down.
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