Unlike most stories of its type, this was one that was not only told entirely from the perspective of the vampire, but which had a certain degree of sympathy for such creatures as well. That certainly looked intriguing and then when I noticed that the coolest girl in French class was toting around a copy, I figured it was time to check it out.īy that point, I had seen plenty of vampire-related films and read such classic books as Dracula and Salem’s Lot, but this book, in which its narrator, the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, recounted the events of his 200-year-long life, was something wholly new and different.
However, for one issue, the big cover story was an excerpt from Rice’s then-new novel The Vampire Lestat, which appeared to be something about a rock-and-roll vampire. To be honest, I tended to leave the fiction pieces to the side unless it was an author that I knew like Stephen King because I tended to be more interested in the other stuff. It was 1985, I was 14 and one of the magazines that I read back then was Twilight Zone, a spinoff of the classic television show that published genre fiction as well as coverage of upcoming movies and television shows. World Without End is followed by the third of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge novels, A Column of Fire.I can recall with reasonable clarity the first time I was introduced to Rice’s work. World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church the other will pursue an impossible love.
One boy will travel the world but come home in the end the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war.
In the forest they see two men killed.Īs adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. The saga that has enthralled millions of readers, The Kingsbridge Novels continue with World Without End.
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