Hooked on phonics

Since I recently finished Hooked on Phonics I have been trying to read more. I got a book for the holidays called "The Pillars of the Earth." Without realizing it I believe this is actually a biography of EdGrimley. It is set in mideviel times so maybe it is a past life of his, but take a look at these two excepts:

"Torturing a man without killing him was like stripping a girl naked without raping her. The more he thought about that, the more he felt the need of a woman."

"He had been inflamed by Aliena and now he wanted to slake his lust with this one. She would be lively, he felt sure: she would wriggle and scratch. All the better."


Book is pretty cool though. It's all about knights, kings, snd stuff. However it is 1000 pages, I may finish by 2012.