As I said last week, Pillars of the Earth is one of my favorite novels of all time. The characters are compelling. The story is complex. The time period is fraught with drama. And the writing is fantastic. I cannot say it strongly enough. Go. Buy. This. B more

Having already made quite the bloody splash with "Spartacus" (a head-scratcher, that), Starz's acquisition of "The Pillars of the Earth" -- an eight-hour adaptation of Ken Follett's massive novel -- is another shrewd programm more

I've read the novel The Pillars of the Earth a number of times, passed it on to friends and begged non-readers to try to get through five pages without being hooked. It's one of my favorite books of all time and when I heard Starz was making a m more

I have a book sitting on my desk that I'm about to start again. Want to guess what it is? But I want to make something very, very clear. I am not re-reading Pillars of the Earth because I found anything lacking in the miniseries. In fact, it was one more

When you read a really good book, it gets harder and harder to turn the pages as you get closer to the end. I've been known to read a final page five times, and close the book, unable to talk to anyone, lest the spell wear off. The Pillars of the Ear more

Four years have gone by since the last episode of The Pillars of the Earth, and quite a bit has changed. King Stephen has Maud's Lincoln Castle under siege and her people are starving. William's father is dead by his mother's hand. Richard more

We've hit the second half of the Starz miniseries, The Pillars of the Earth and the action certainly hasn't slowed down. In this week's episode, "Legacy," we've got romance, violence and the death of a main character. Needles more

In this week's episode of The Pillars of the Earth, everything has come crashing down. Literally for some. Richard returns home to find his sister penniless and unable to support his knighthood. And since King Stephen is back in power and Empress Mau more