johncbeynon 's review for:

The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

3.0

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Eco's The Prague Cemetery features an anti-protagonist that you love to hate and hate to love. He's all things loathsome, and yet I couldn't help get caught up in his various evil machinations and ruthless ability to destroy others. I nearly lost interest when the novel tells a convoluted story of espionage, double-dealing, and betrayal in Italy, but once we find Simonini in Paris, spinning his anti-Semitic, anti-masonic, and anti-Jesuit plots that revolve around dark doings at a Prague Cemetery, then I couldn't put the novel down. The clever illustrations are wonderful additions.

This interview with The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle inspired me to read the book.