While his writing style is not one of my favorites, he does an admirable job of binging a 'reflection' of our past to life. So much of our modern times is rooted firmly in that history. While his account is fictional, I can't help but feel he has captured the politic of the times to reveal humanity at it's glorious best, and it's most vicious and depraved worst.. There is a moral in the story of stop and think for a minute.

wow, you really didn't like it???

I LOVED IT.

I can't believe someone wouldn't like that book.

wow.

There's actually more entertaining posts in this thread than the book itself. I'm especially fond of the criticisms based on the sexual content or violence, and how it'd be a better book with it left out. No, that wouldn't alter the entire dynamic of a book from a literary standpoint. It would definately leave room for those more historically accurate (yawn) depictions of how people in the middle ages REALLY cooked their food or sewed buttons or whatever. Oh, and in that delightful and significant olde english as well!

Cheers!! I'm with you. Life is short to "slog through" literature that does not inspire, entertain, or lubricate.

I loved it!

Here's the thing. You will never prove to the world how "smart" you are by trashing POTE. It's a book. A very entertaining book - IN MY OPINION - and like belly buttons EVERYONE HAS ONE. I agree that it's not War and Peace - War and Peace is War and Peace this on the other hand is POTE. Best thing I can say to you know it all "critics" is: So Many Books/So Little Time. Use your time to find the genre for you and dispense with the pathetic need to display a superiority that only exists in your head. If you really are as smart as you would have us believe then this simple concept, different strokes for different folks, should not be totally lost on you - maybe.

Thanks Misfit for a potential reading list. Always open to new book ideas, recommended by people who read a lot. -- Joy