About 80 pages in and so far it kinda sucks. Eco bangs on and on about church decorations, marginalia, obscure religious debates that I don't get...boooooring. And there are frequent passages in Latin. I don't know Latin. (Shockingly, the intro I took in 8th grade did not make me fluent.) Footn...
I felt like William was a modern character in medieval times. Apparently, I wasn't the only one that thought that because he addresses it the post script and says that the passages that most people find too "modern" are direct quotes from 14th century texts.I thought the medieval attitude was well ...
This book really tickled the right parts of my brain when I was in college. I had never read a mystery like it. I loved the way Eco incorporated medieval history (and I was very much into medieval European history at the time) into what was a really well-written yarn.
An excellent mystery novel set in a medieval monastery where an important conference between the Dominican and Franciscan orders is being disrupted by a series of brutal murders. It reads like a Sherlock Holmes style mystery, but it is buried under a mountain of medieval Catholic minutia. If you a...
Great story. You have to want to finish it, though. Bit of a slog at times.It's hard to read this book without imagining the movie (a good adaptation, btw) with Christian Slater back when he was a teenage heartthrob, even in his monk's habit and tonsure. There's always the scene *without* the habit.
This is one of my 're-read often' books. The story of Adso and his mentor Brother William as they encounter the nefarious secrets of the abbey they have journeyed to somewhere in the heart of Italy is fantastic. Brother William is the unflappable, Sherlock-like investigator first asked by the Abbot ...
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