The Edge of Eternity
by Ken Follett, Audiobook narrated by John Lee, 2014, Penguin Audio
This is the last book in the trilogy. Thank goodness!
While the book walked me back through a time in history that I lived through, I never really liked or identified with any of the characters. They were, however, always on the scene when something happened, be it at the side of Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, next to Martin Luther King on the balcony when he was assassinated, or, likewise, with Bobby Kennedy when he suffered the same fate. Even though these were crucial events in our history, Follett transforms them into personal events in the lives of his characters. This provides the reader with a sense of how events affect individual persons but, at the same time, it somehow trivializes the events themselves and the impacts on our nation.
Again, I much preferred Herman Wouk’s Winds of War and War and Remembrance as much better examples of this genre.
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