"You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple."In "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto EcoI've always been a keen follower of Prof. Eco's books, both literary and academic. If ther...
It is repeating over and over again ludicrous religious conspiracy theories. If you are not easily fooled by magical mumbo jumbo, it is pretty unbearable to read, since you can not empathise with the main characters. Eco is funny at times but this book is too long. I like all his other stuff so will...
I started Foucault’s Pendulum with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. Anticipation because I loved Eco’s historical mystery The Name of the Rose and a friend whose literary judgement I respect loved Foucault’s Pendulum and rated it five stars. Trepidation because I had heard it was a “diffi...
An entertaining book that just took a little too long to get where it was going in my opinion. It also painted a bit of a cartoon portrait of occultists. Although I know that some are just as absurd as the book shows, some seem to be decent, relatively normal people that you wouldn't suspect of be...
The best and the worst thing I can say about this novel is that it's a difficult read. Sure, the author is Italian, but that doesn't automatically make it difficult, only a a novel that I've read out of it's normal language. No, the novel isn't even difficult in the traditional sense, where the sent...
I think it could be validly opined that all of Umberto Eco’s novels primarily exist to show off how much he knows. They are all jam-packed with esoteric knowledge from such specialized and varied sources that one wonders how a single human being managed to fit them all into his head, let alone turn ...
The two stars are more a reflection of my enjoyment of the book than of the book itself. There were simply too many details to keep track of in the constant re-invention of The Plan, and I felt like I was missing out. This may improve on a re-read. I'm still not sure all of the digressions were nece...
To begin: Don't read this book if you want to believe. This book started well...and then fell apart halfway through. I didn’t care for the protagonist from the start. No, I don’t need to sympathise with a character to like a book. But in this case, I felt like I was supposed to - a little, at ...
One of my top ten books of all time. An absolute masterpiece. Forget Dan Brown's rubbish, this is the original conspiracy novel. And it has Knights Templar!
I tried to read this a few years ago on the strong recommendation of a very good friend. I couldn't do it. The constant references just felt like showboating for the sake of it. It was all so..... pretentious. Ah well. Hopefully he'll enjoy the book I have forced him to read (Pontypool Changes Every...
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