Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett
I've had this book on my shelf for ages, and it's been bugging me to read it. The sheer size of it did put me off, for a while, but when after the first chapter, I was hooked.
Rollicking good story telling from KF, even though I did skip the technical bits about the building of the cathedral. The goodies were goodies and the baddies were really bad, if barbarism was rife in the 12th century. All types of emotion was in the story, love, hate, and redemption.
Great read.