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Reading this one for the fifth time is twenty years. I firmly believe this to be one of the best novels ever written. I recently went to Portugal and while there visited Obidos, a 12th century fortified city. As I walked the cramped streets and stopped at all the little gift shops, port tastings, etc. (doing business in the same "stalls" as described in Follett's masterpiece), I couldn't help but think of this book.