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Post on public forum on goodreads from an author. I seriously cannot make this @!**# up. See https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2121391-free-or-not#comment_111182583 if not sure it's real.
Post on public forum on goodreads from an author. I seriously cannot make this @!**# up. See https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2121391-free-or-not#comment_111182583 if not sure it's real.
This book is a rarity, both a critical and popular success, a literary and erudite book that is also a gripping historical mystery. It was made into a film--not a good one, which might put people off the book, which is a shame. Brother William of Baskerville makes a terrific medieval sleuth, and Eco has the ability to transport you to another world and make this distant century both familiar and alien. A moving, involving book with layers of meaning that repays rereading.
A beautiful work of Umberto Eco's! Vivid, mindful to the smallest details and constantly entertaining, it is a wonderful choice for a read. Not easy to understand or to perceive, imagine, and not easy to forget.
I have picked up this book 3 times, trying to finish it. Well, due to sheer stubborness, I finally finished it today. Yup - all 500+ pages. The plot and setting are interesting, but it is incredibly verbose. I really wanted to enjoy this - a mystery set during the Middle Ages. But I just couldn't get into all of the discussion about the feuding popes and nobility.
