I read this book when I was about 16-17.
It gave me nothing. Didn't like the plot nor the characters. The story is repeating itself over and over again and the middle-age is full of shitty things, like religion and no rights for women and all the shitty religion once again. I can see me reading a book about this time for 100-200 pages. But Ken Follet decided to take the content for 200 pages and rolles it out to 1000. I don't understand why people like this book in particular. I never read another book by this author.