I thought Pillars of the Earth was dreadful. I could not get past the first 100 pages or so.
And I’m a medievalist!
I’m been reading a few books, but I’ve also been listening to a dramatization of Neal Donaldson’s ANATHEM. Not bad. A little odd, perhaps pretentious at times, but not bad as entertainment thus far.
I would highly recommend books by Sharon Kay Penman. I read “The Sunne in Splendour” while on vacation in Orlando. It was a tough call each day: WDW or Sunne?
I read the 900 page book in a week. I am now reading “While Christ & His Saints Slept,” which is actually the first book in the series... Sunne is the last, but you don’t need to read them in order for it to make sense.
That’s my book recommendation du jour.