dataphyte 's review for:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
4.0

If you're not laughing every couple of pages, then stop reading—it's supposed to be funny.

The twist at the end (it is a murder mystery, after all) is among the top 3 of any book I've ever read. Unexpected, exiting, thought provoking and executed perfectly.

Some have said The Name of the Rose is the DaVinci Code for the literati. This is embarrassingly snobbish and unnervingly accurate.

Knowing some latin would have been nice, though...