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meanderingly 's review for:
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
I can see why people like this book, but it wasn't really for me. Eco certainly knows a lot about history, and philosophy, and religion, and languages, and he certainly shows it off - the book is very intellectual. However he does this at the expense of characterisation and plot (although arguably the plot is intended to be secondary in this book anyway). The characters are all basically one-note or downright anachronisms and the story, despite its subject matter, came across as rather wooden, so I was rapidly losing interest by the time the reveal came.