Audio update.
Spoilers about Pillars of the Earth follow.
So, despite knowing in advance about an extremely WTF? sex scene towards the beginning of the book (thanks, Brigdh!) I STILL almost drove into a ditch when it happened. I was so busy shrieking, "WHAT? WHAT?" while staring, agog, at my radio, that my wheels just, you know, wandered. (I'm normally a really safe and conscientious driver, I SWEAR.)
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More thoughts on the sex scene: REALLY? REALLY? I mean... REALLY? He's malnourished, dehydrated and completely, utterly exhausted from being up all night during Agnes' labor, then digging her grave, burying his dead wife, walking until daylight and then retracing his steps -- so exhausted, etc., that he's practically hallucinating -- and he has no performance problems? HE IS OBVIOUSLY THE MANLIEST MAN OF ALL TIME. And were the kids there the whole time??
Okay, and so Tom left the baby on Agnes' grave. As I doubt the newborn was doing any crawling, the priest presumably found the baby in the same spot. Right? Yet the priest didn't notice that the baby was lying on a freshly dug grave? Then again, I've only just listened to that part, so maybe he's holding back the truth in front of the big group of monks.
The repetition continues -- seriously, after Agnes died, Tom listed off EVERY SINGLE THING that'd happened so far. EVERY. SINGLE. THING. I mean, I get that I'm supposed to be following his thoughts, but good LORD, it's tedious. I'm so happy that I'm with the monks now. Hoo boy, I need a break from Tom. And I suspect that Ellen is going to bug the bejebus out of me -- there have been so many references to her golden eyes that I won't be at all surprised if when she starts to sparkle.
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