It's always nice to find little things in used books: Appears to be a quiche recipe and a pressed leaf.Done. And unsatisfied. Three ambiguous stars that could as easily fall towards one as they could to five. Perhaps it might have been better to have read this when it first came out, the sensati...
So very slow and boring!I have heard from a colleague that it was a very good book so maybe I'm just not intellectual enough to comprehend but seriously, it cannot be more boring! It actually nearly put me to sleep and not many books do that.The beginning of the book opens with narrator, Casaubon, ...
If it were more about more modern conspiracies, like JFK or something like that, it would have a wider audience. I think, as it stands, it is slightly too esoteric for its own good. I understand that you want the style to reflect the material, and it does. I just think the message is important an...
This book is definitely smarter than me but I don't hold that against it. Confounded me more than enlightened, but the final scene more than made up for the obfuscations throughout the novel.
Just as dense as The Name of the Rose, but with less of a compelling narrative, this is a difficult read. I know it has some ardent fans, but its place as the "thinking person's 'DaVinci Code'" is slightly unmerited. Granted, it does deal with Templar conspiracy theorists (and I love a good conspira...
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