Pendolo Di Foucault

from ewalrath

Yes, I know, it starts with a quote in Hebrew and it took me two readings to understand what-all had happened. Read it anyway. This book is frosting-covered fudge brownies with marshmallow sauce for your intellect. Warning: Can induces intellectual snobbery, esp. regarding the various post-DaVinc...

from tuckerresearch

An excellent novel that could be used for historiographical purposes as it treats wonderfully the lure of the occult and speculative history. It has also been called the "thinking man's DaVinci Code" and that is not too far off the mark. Eco's tale leaves you breathless at the times and doesn't n...

from ewalrath

Yes, I know, it starts with a quote in Hebrew and it took me two readings to understand what-all had happened. Read it anyway. This book is frosting-covered fudge brownies with marshmallow sauce for your intellect. Warning: Can induces intellectual snobbery, esp. regarding the various post-DaVinc...

from Drifter83

I often get sleepy when I read, but this book absolutely exhausted me. Every passage is a battle. I had to accept very early that I would simply not understand a number of the words and references. One of the back cover reviews called the book "encyclopedic" - I'd say that covers it pretty well.I...

from theokester

I picked this book up more than a decade ago. I started reading it once but couldn't get into it. When The DaVinci Code came out, somebody recommended this book to me as a "thinking man's DaVinci Code." And yet it still took me another 4-5 years to read it. I'm sad that it took me so long to fina...