This is my second book by Eco. I have also read Foucault's Pendulum and Eco is a reliable, excellent author. The idea of setting a book in a medieval monastery and making it a murder mystery in order to explore philosophical ideas, especially ones about meaning and epistemology is brilliant.He writ...
Because Umberto Eco demonstrates a remarkable knowledge of 14th-century (and earlier) ecclesiastical history, one might suspect him to be a student of the subject, or rather, the dean of a college of religious history. Or, and this seems more likely, an 800-year old biographer who finally got around...
this novel is hefty - literally and figuratively. i liked it but i would not really say that i thoroughly enjoyed it. the translation from Italian to English was excellent but there were still a lot of foreign phrases and sentences throughout the book which left me floundering most of the time. it w...
Regardless of how one feels about the Bible, Christianity and religion, one can't deny that they (especially the Bible) had a huge impact on today's culture, art and literature. While reading this book, I felt almost ashamed of my ignorance and lack of knowledge and understanding of certain historic...
I'm in two minds about this book. On the one hand, it often gets immensely boring, making something as INTERESTING as medieval theo-politics a real chore to read through, due to the way in which it presents it (the "seven-day" format is unbelievably limiting; giving the narrator more leeway to go of...
once i let go the notion that it's a difficult book, it became an easy sailing. another book read after listening to bbc's world bookclub.i haven't read that many of umberto eco's book, but his humour is one thing i always enjoy. in this book the part where adso read the book on love and the monk's ...
I'm not really sure what I really think about the book. I am blaming my not ranting & raving about this book to my lack of knowledge about medieval times and also, my confusion in differentiating of the "strands" (not sure exactly what you call them) of monks / abbeys (I am referring to what's the ...
Tedious. No other way to describe the book. I was rather looking forward to it, too (ever since I say the excellent movie starring Sean Connery)... I can appreciate the historical and factual accuracy of the novel, but the writing style is most off-putting, unfortunately :(
I only got 50 pages into this book before I gave up. It was really confusing and hard to read. I really wanted to enjoy this book as I had heard great things about it. But it was much too wordy. I didn't think I could care about any of the characters at all. I may give it another try in the futur...
No, I changed my mind. Only two stars, not three - a book should be more enjoyable to read. It shouldn't be such a struggle!Thughts immediately after finishing the book: Thank God I didn't give up in the middle!!!! The ending was monumental - both dramatic and profound! All the loose ends were neat...
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