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O Nome da Rosa

Umberto Eco

3.97 AVERAGE

cygnet_'s review against another edition

4.5

adventurous informative mysterious

air_traffic_controller's review against another edition

4.0

Entertaining, well-written, and no doubt I'm a sucker for medieval monks, the beginnings of empirical inquiry, and murder mysteries all. The one trouble I had with it is that the author seemed a little too keen to impose modern ways of thinking on the characters. I mean, I like our modern way of thinking and it added to my enjoyment a bit ("only this one understands the true worth of our scientific thought!"), but this missed an opportunity for questioning the failures of such thought. I would've expected a postmodernist of all people to be interested in such a thing. Still a solid book.

jojoinabox's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

audreyx_'s review against another edition

4.5

soooo good wow esp the last 100 pages

theslozat's review against another edition

4.0

challenging mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

watscn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

whatsbookinjenni's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Not sure I ever would have actually gotten to this without a beach vacation where all I’m doing was reading, and even then it took me 4.5 days (my average at the beach is a book a day)!! But I’m glad I did - super interesting medieval church history (if you are into that kind of thing), mixed with questions of truth, knowledge, poverty…lots of thought provoking stuff! I want to read some smart analysis of it and/or discuss it with someone smart!!