The Name of the Rose [NAME OF THE ROSE]

a triumph of logic

before there was Dan Brown, there was Umberto Eco!

This can be a heavy read at times, but the story is gripping.

Good read, but at times little boring due to unnecessary exaggeration..

This was such a good book. It's very long and get tedious in parts but it is very well written and has such a good storyline. It's like Sherlock Holmes with Monks. The best part is the ending, and it is beyond worth it to get there.

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This book blew me away. It did what every great book does. First, it engages you on the level of storytelling. It is, at its most basic level, a murder mystery. But it's also historical fiction. Eco fleshes out the historical era by showing the political significance of the monastery as it existed at the intersection of religious and secular authority. But Eco also paints a picture of the era's...more

This book blew me away. It did what every great book does. First, it engages you on the level of storytelling. It is, at its most basic level, a murder mystery. But it's also historical fiction. Eco fleshes out the historical era by showing the political significance of the monastery as it existed at the intersection of religious and secular authority. But Eco also paints a picture of the era's internal landscape by describing how the narrator filtered the perceived world through Medieval logic. Eco also uses his story to convey a nature of meaning. By showing the inability to impose a text-like narrative on reality to find meaning, Eco foreshadows the nature of thought in the Modern world. A great book.   hide

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