A review by air_traffic_controller
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

4.0

Entertaining, well-written, and no doubt I'm a sucker for medieval monks, the beginnings of empirical inquiry, and murder mysteries all. The one trouble I had with it is that the author seemed a little too keen to impose modern ways of thinking on the characters. I mean, I like our modern way of thinking and it added to my enjoyment a bit ("only this one understands the true worth of our scientific thought!"), but this missed an opportunity for questioning the failures of such thought. I would've expected a postmodernist of all people to be interested in such a thing. Still a solid book.