# Pillars of the Earth

**Author(s):** Ken Follett
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/pillars-of-the-earth/verdict.json
**Genres:** law, thriller, literary-fiction, historical-fiction, history
**Pages:** 1008
**Publisher:** Penguin Publishing Group
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780451222138
**ISBN-10:** 045122213X
**ASIN:** 045122213X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/pillars-of-the-earth

## SageChimp reader verdict

Pillars of the Earth has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 4.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/pillars-of-the-earth/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★ (Untitled) — kristin
This novel should have been half as long. Wonderful, but exhausting. I think there is no real person I hate as thoroughly as William Hamleigh.