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A review by henrycooke
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
4.0
struggled in the middle a lot but i did quite like the ending. it could have been maybe 250 pages shorter quite comfortably.
when it sang it really sang. and it was deeply funny, and like all the best scholarly adventures made you feel very smart when you understood the references, and only a little lost when you didn’t - although he did write it before google.
there is so much discourse about conspiracy theories now that some of the book’s ideas feel a little flat, but not all of them. it’s definitely better than the da vinci code.
when it sang it really sang. and it was deeply funny, and like all the best scholarly adventures made you feel very smart when you understood the references, and only a little lost when you didn’t - although he did write it before google.
there is so much discourse about conspiracy theories now that some of the book’s ideas feel a little flat, but not all of them. it’s definitely better than the da vinci code.