-Tell me what's going on, whatever it is. -The swell has put trouble in my mind. -What's the real reason you 're not coming back? -The sea wouldn't return me. -What do you ask for? -I have no desire for land. Away from his family for twelve years. Away from the land, his beloved, yet forgotten persons. ATHOS III is his home now. The place w...more

In Baudolino the ever ingenious Umberto Eco draws on the medieval legends surrounding Prester John--a mythical Christian emperor of the Far East--to create a sprawling, picaresque adventure yarn. The eponymous Baudolino is the book's hero and chief, although deeply unreliable, narrator. After a brief foray into Baudolino's youthful attempts at aut...more

Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are crea...more