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Page Turner
Lie Down with Lions contains an excellent plot, employing an array of techniques that keeps the readers interest right from the start. From the beginning, the book is filled with scenes of passion, deceit, treachery, and action. These characteristics are all coupled together making for a page turner from start to finish. The author keeps the readers interest...
Publié le Mai 19 2004
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cut to the chase
this is one of the dumbest novels i have ever read but it has one of the most explosive sex scenes in the history of writing. the protagonists lie down in grass under the moon and make out marvellously and the author's descriptions are superbly graphic, intensely erotic and unabashedly provocative. this one scene is worth the price of admission. read this scene and unwind...
Publié le Mai 21 2003
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Worst Follett Ever, Jui 27 2004
I like Ken Follett's work (well, most of it), but this one was a huge disappointment. His best books are those that take place during WW2; that's when he's at his best. The others vary greatly. I didn't care for "Man from St. Petersburg" -- good plot but awful characters -- but this one takes the cake. I see that many reviewers liked it, but I found the plot boring and
the pace slow -- I skipped over all the descriptions of life in Afghanistan, as well as all the scenes of Jane bonding with her baby. The main problem for me, though, was the characters. If I don't like the main characters I don't care what happens to them. Jean Pierre was fine as an evil Commie villain, but I just couldn't warm up to Ellis & Jane as the hero & heroine. Call me old-fashioned but I like my protagonists to be a little more on the straight & narrow than these two. As for the much-vaunted sex scene -- I know some reviewers found it erotic, but I found it just plain vulgar, including the language used to describe it! It's one thing to put dirty words in the mouth of a character, but for the omniscient narrator to use them as descriptons was too much. If you're new to Follett, go to the WW2 novels instead.
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Page Turner, Mai 19 2004
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Lie Down with Lions contains an excellent plot, employing an array of techniques that keeps the readers interest right from the start. From the beginning, the book is filled with scenes of passion, deceit, treachery, and action. These characteristics are all coupled together making for a page turner from start to finish.
The author keeps the readers interest through the first few chapters by detailing the end of the relationship between Jane and Ellis. Their relationship comes to a climatic end, which is a story in itself, but it gets better. After Jane weds the clear antagonist (Jean-Pierre) and the couple embarks on a volunteer mission to Afghanistan, Ellis heads to Afghanistan on a covert operation for the CIA. Soon Jane discovers Jean-Pierre is working for the KGB pitting them against each other, and Jane finds herself on Ellis's side working against her husband, this is where the book really takes off. The Cold War rivals are in a fight for Jane's heart, Afghanistan, and world supremacy. Follett takes the reader all over Afghanistan giving accurate descriptions of the people and landscape.
A great read, Follett will put you in a trance.
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Page turner, Mai 19 2004
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Lie Down with Lions contains an excellent plot, employing an array of techniques that keeps the readers interest right from the start. From the beginning, the book is filled with scenes of passion, deceit, treachery, and action. These characteristics are all coupled together making for a page turner from start to finish.
The author keeps the readers interest through the first few chapters by detailing the end of the relationship between Jane and Ellis. Their relationship comes to a climatic end, which is a story in itself, but it gets better. After Jane weds the clear antagonist (Jean-Pierre) and the couple embarks on a volunteer mission to Afghanistan, Ellis heads to Afghanistan on a covert operation for the CIA. Soon Jane discovers Jean-Pierre is working for the KGB pitting them against each other, and Jane finds herself on Ellis's side working against her husband, this is where the book really takes off. The Cold War rivals are in a fight for Jane's heart, Afghanistan, and world supremacy. Follett takes the reader all over Afghanistan giving accurate descriptions of the people and landscape.
A great read, Follett will put you in a trance.
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A good adventure stoy..., Avril 6 2004
That relates to world events now in 2004.A must read if you're into learning about Afghanistan and her people.A real page turner! See for yourself!
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Exciting read, Mars 22 2004
If you like excitment and action you will love this book. Believable characters lead into a plot of mystery and action in a stark landscape. Betrayal, love, and survival pit a young woman aganist harsh realities and difficult choices. Yet, the heroes retain their humanity. It's a good story.
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Afghanis vs. Soviets - A Super Suspense-Thriller + Romance!, Juil 16 2003
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan began on Christmas Eve 1979. The inhabitants of this geographically isolated land, rose up to defend their country. They armed themselves with whatever was on hand, gathered into loose formations and began to attack and sabotage the Soviet Union's personnel, installations, depots and transports with any available weapons. Scattered guerrilla bands, with fierce pride, and a tremendous ability to endure, fought against the far superior and more numerous Soviet forces and sophisticated weaponry."Lie Down With Lions" opens in Paris in 1981. John Ellis, an American CIA agent, is working undercover and living with a politically active Englishwoman, the sensual, lovely Jane Lambert, who he plans on proposing marriage to as soon as he completes his assignment. Jean-Pierre Debout, a French doctor and member of the Communist Party, is going to Afghanistan, ostensibly to provide medical assistance to the rebel forces fighting against the Soviets. He has, however, another agenda. Jean-Pierre also loves Jane and wants her to accompany him to Afghanistan as his nurse-assistant. Ellis, after capturing an important KGB agent, is exposed as CIA. Jane leaves him in disgust, not only because of his job, but because he lied to her. The Valley of Five Lions, a place of ancient legend, lies deep in the Afghan mountains, far removed from civilization. Jane and her husband, Jean Pierre have been working here, in a rebel village, for a year. They minister to the local inhabitants, who have never seen a doctor before, and patch together and stitch-up the wounded warriors. An American visits the valley with an important message for Masud, a famous and effective guerrilla leader, from the White House. The messenger is John Ellis. A terrible treachery is discovered, shortly after he arrives. A nightmare flight with the Soviets in pursuit occurs, across the Hindu Kush, leading to an extraordinarily suspenseful confrontation. The action here is unbelievable with Ken Follett, the master of the suspense-thriller, at his best. As usual, Follett's narrative is riveting and the action intense. His characters are well drawn and believable, with all their complexities and conflicts. There are so few novels written about Afghanistan, especially during this important period in history, and that makes "Lie Down With Lions" all the more worthwhile a read. P.S. Yes, there is also an amazingly erotic, and well written sex scene.
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cut to the chase, Mai 21 2003
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this is one of the dumbest novels i have ever read but it has one of the most explosive sex scenes in the history of writing. the protagonists lie down in grass under the moon and make out marvellously and the author's descriptions are superbly graphic, intensely erotic and unabashedly provocative. this one scene is worth the price of admission. read this scene and unwind afer the worst day you've ever had at the office.
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An electrifying, thrilling... SEEDY ROMANCE NOVEL?!, Fév 5 2003
Sure, the plot clips along (read the other reviews for voluptuous praise of that point) but Lie Down With Lions is a romance novel in an action novel's clothing.In the greatest tradition of WEB Griffin, Follett insists on beating his audience over the head with the torrid affairs of his characters. How does comparing the lovemaking styles of the male points in a "love" triangle advance the plot? The simple answer: it doesn't, but it seemed to have tittilated Follett or his editors... or his accountants. It's understandable that realistic characters will ultimately be sexual beings, but it's difficult appreciate CHEAP sex thrust meaninglessly into the heart of a novel. Maybe its a sign of the times. In any case, it seemed like a really cheesy obsession of his. Another point: the characters are so polarized into black-and-white, good and bad, that they feel like newsprint. Given, this book was written in the 80s, when the Cold War was still raging, but as Sting so aptly recognized, "Russians love their children, too". If you're going to write a novel, why not make your villians human? (Thankfully, not every Follett book reads this way.) Lie Down With Lions does not come recommended as your introduction to the work of Ken Follett.
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Great book, great readers, Aoû 2 2002
I purchased this book because the setting -- Afghanistan -- sounded interesting, I like spy stories, and I'd just read Jackdaws by Follett which I'd thoroughly enjoyed. This book exceeded my expectations. Three characters are the main focus of the story -- Ellis, a CIA agent, Jane, the woman he loves and wants to marry (although she doesn't know it), and Jean-Pierre, the man who also wants Jane for himself. From the beginning Jane and Ellis's relationship is rocky because she doesn't know he's a spy and some of his actions have her puzzled. She wants more of a commitment and he doesn't seem willing to cooperate. On the day he decides to come clean about what he does for a living and how he feels about her, all hell breaks loose. The next thing Ellis knows, Jane is gone and so is Jean-Pierre. Ellis later accepts an assignment to Afghanistan and their paths cross again. The fact that Jane now has a child doesn't change the way he feels. He's still in love with her, but he expects no love in return. Aside from that, his mission could get him killed and he doesn't want to bring harm to her or her child. Besides that, Jean-Pierre, who's always been jealous of him, has no intention on losing Jane to a past rival. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of action, danger, romance, and suspense. I listened to the unabridged audiobook version of this book and the cast of six readers were excellent. They changed their tone and pace to fit the scenes that they read. As a result, the characters seemed to come alive. Follett does a pretty good job of giving you enough of a description to help you envision the scenery and the dialog was good. To top it off, the action made sense and was interesting. I don't know if the book accurately portrays the people of Afghanistan, so I didn't accept some of the characters' observations about how they are as a people. I mainly listened to the book to be entertained and it did that superbly.
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I Had High Expectations, Avril 8 2002
I think he has put out much better books and this one was the first to really disappoint me. The book is an average book, but I had just read Pillars of the Earth so this one was a let down. The story was interesting and could have been one of the first major attempts to take on the Afghan War via fiction. The staples of a Follett book are there, a great cast that you get to know, a well thought out story etc, I just came into the book expecting too much. He does spend a great deal of time on the issue of how women are treated in Afghanistan and I believe that is why there is a strong woman in the book to even more draw your attention to it. When I read the book it did not strike me much, but with the latest events I skimmed the book and picked up on it.
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