Ken Follett & John Lee Talk About Fall of Giants

By: Ken Follett, John Lee

Narrated by: Diana Dapito

Length: 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Ken Follett and John Lee, the author and narrator of Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, are back together again for Fall of Giants, the first in The Century Trilogy. They recently chatted with Audible editor Diana Dapito about the new epic book, and what it was like to write and record it.

Fall of Giants is Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits…. Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House…. Two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution…. Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London….

These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.

Listen to Fall of Giants.

©2010 Kevin Follett (P)2010 Penguin Audio

interesting interview

I love Ken Follet's epic historical fiction books and John Lee is an extraordinary narrator. If you have read or are thinking of reading Fall of Giants, you will enjoy listening to this interview.

Interesting

I was hoping to gain some more information on what is and what is not fictional in the interview but I may need to do my own research. I was disappointed that Ken Follett wasn't aware of John Lee; I've listened to a number of John Lee's narrations and greatly admire his talent so I felt a bit slighted for my "friend."

Couldn't follow it

I bought this based on a review I'd read. I really tried to like this book. I started it over twice but I just could not listen to it. I don't know exactly why, but maybe it is the amount of detail in it. The reader is great, but I just couldn't do the story line.

Not very informative or interesting.+

What disappointed you about Ken Follett & John Lee Talk About Fall of Giants?

A two person mediated interview between the author and the "Audible" reader that was more of a "love-fest" than informative about the book.

Would you ever listen to anything by Ken Follett and John Lee again?

Maybe

How did the narrator detract from the book?

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What character would you cut from Ken Follett & John Lee Talk About Fall of Giants?

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Any additional comments?

Free is OK and worth it.

What was this?

Perhaps the interviewer should get the names of the books before she starts naming them to the author and the narrator. "The Pillars of the Earth" not "The Pillars of Earth" and "Fall of Giants" not "The Fall of the Giants."

Follett's True Colors

I always suspected Ken Follett was a bit of an arrogant man, and boy.... did this interview ever confirm it! But since I am in love with John Lee's voice, it was so great to listen to him just speak in his normal voice. I learned a lot about how audio books are produced and it is an interesting way to spend a few minutes. John Lee rocks as a narrator and I hope he continues to crank out a many as possible. Hey! He got me to read my first Dickens novel! I might try the space opera that everyone is raving about... just for Mr. Lee's amazing vocal talents.

horrible interview

First, the interviewer got the name of Ken Follett books wrong. second, anybody on Audible knows that John Lee is a legend and honestly he makes Ken Follett books better. Can enter the interview saying that not only did he not know who John Lee was, but that he had never listened to any of the readings of his books by John. what kind of a snob do you have to be to never listen to your own audio recordings of your books. I'm a big fan of Ken Follett, but I have to say that this interview made me like him significantly less.

Not worth the price

I realize it was free but it's gonna be really annoying to have to see it on my library list every time I open the app. Audible please give me an option to delete titles completely off my list