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Title: The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript
ISBN: 0156001314
Author:
Umberto Eco
Publicate Date: 1994-09-28
Publish: 1994-09-28
List Price: $15.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Learned and fast
Learned and fast because rarely does someone so intelligent find a way to jam so much thought into such a fast plot. THis book continues to be the best introduction to Eco's fiction, the one you should read before the others (and then you'll want to read the others too, but I'm not sure that the process would work the other way).
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2: Gripping mystery telling a story of religious life in another century
It's a fabulous WHODUNIT!!
The characters come alive with the author's fascinating description of physical characteristics, his telling from whence each person came to this abbey, and through personality traits. The reader feels like he is meeting each of them in real life.
The book starts out with one unsolved murder and the plot gets more and more involved as more people meet their demise.
Also, the observations of a seasoned veteran of the church are constantly compared to the thoughts of the novice, which provides different perspectives on the events that occur.
It is a hard book to put down, once you start. One of the most valued places described in this book continuously is the libary of major historic books. It is a shocking part of the book's ending when meetings in the library cause an event that the reader could never expect.
Clearly, I recommend it highly.
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3: one of my top 5 books of all time
Not much else to say. Eco is a true polymath and to combine his learnedness, storytelling abilities, and novel prose, is one of those rare abilities that remind us that "geniuses" really do exist.
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4: Excellent
This is a very beautiful novel, the first 50 pages are bit hard to digest as the writer delves deeply into Christian theology, but go ahead and there awaits you an incredible novel about a priest and his neophyte trying to solve a murder that takes place at a monastery in the world that is just on the verge of tipping to the Renaissance period. I found in-depth discussions on various sects of Christianity profoundly interesting and their annihilation, if they went against the dictates of the Pope (what a villanious authority), most illuminating. In fact, the book has it all, sex (of all hues), murder, mystery and the futility of wanting more than you need including, yes, even knowledge!!!!!
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5: Way over rated
As a mystery this book was just OK, if even that. I enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum because with that book you learned a lesson that I often think about. I was expecting something similar with this book but all I got was a book that was a pain in the rear to read and did not offer anything of substance for the effort.
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