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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
dark
mysterious
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:
No
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adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A book so compelling, and with such intellectual flair, is hard to come by. It's no surprise that this is a classic
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Intricate and rich, which goes for all in it -plot, speech, philosophy, architecture, logic, art and theology (lots of). Requires patience? Yes. Read when hungry for philosophy and logic. It’s something else.
For a Middle Age geek, it’s a treasure and a must-read. The politics alone already make it worthwhile.
Note (and act accordingly): For a book that contains so much Latin, one would think it would include a bit of a guide translating said Latin for us mortals. At least my edition did not. Granted, it would add a good twenty-page addendum, but still.
For a Middle Age geek, it’s a treasure and a must-read. The politics alone already make it worthwhile.
Note (and act accordingly): For a book that contains so much Latin, one would think it would include a bit of a guide translating said Latin for us mortals. At least my edition did not. Granted, it would add a good twenty-page addendum, but still.
This book was gifted to me by a Lease Crutcher Lewis Intern I helped mentor, she said it was one of her favorites. I found it initially (250 pages) difficult to get into due to the language used and the translations but I soon got into a groove. It is about Monk's investigating a murder while discussing the purpose of faith. I enjoyed how honest the monks were about their truth and their meaning. I switched to audiobook at some point and found the narrating amazing! The ending of the book was great, and unexpected. I loved at the end how the narrator said he didn't know what his story was really about. "Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make the truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth." pg. 527
Eco performed something almost impossible with this novel. He was able to take an absolutely microscope-scale fundamental understanding of semiotics and literature and history and condense it into something that is true to those fundamentals on which he is an expert while also being an extremely fun page-turning read. I remain in awe. He seems like an author that wants to have the way he views the world expressed through his prose and his post-script at the end of the novel was eye-opening for me about how semiotics can give a creative framework that elevates a novel to greatness.