ellie_cripps 's review for:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
2.0

Ultimately found this book profoundly strange
I remain unsure what he actually set out to do, with a murder mystery muddied by religious treatise no better than an extensive religious history/ exploration inexplicably saddled with a dissatisfying mystery.
There's some excellent sections of writing in here but ultimately this was totally not for me and I won't be sorry to donate my copy to a charity shop.