La Misteriosa Llama de la Reina Loana /The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Paperback)

from Eyejaybee

As is always the case with Umberto Eco's books, this novel is intriguing and challenging, and requires considerable effort from the reader, though it does offer extensive rewards in return for that commitment. Essentially it recounts the experiences of Yambo, a seller of antiquarian books, who, a...

from the_awesome_opossum

"Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what has passed is past." So says Yambo, an amnesiac who wakes up with no personal memories but with a retention of all the knowledge he has learned out of books. This becomes a hindrance to his very identity, so he delves back into all of ...

from lkernagh

I approached this one with some trepidation. My struggles with The Name of the Rose had me a little worried I would struggle with this one, too. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to encounter a story that started out sharp and witty with accessible prose. Sadly, I found the story gets bogged do...

from alexlubertozzi

I had trouble getting into this book at first (I'd bought it in hardcover when it first came out five years ago, started and stopped reading it, then picked it up after reading his earlier novel, The Name of the Rose). Once I got into it, I wouldn't say that it was always riveting, but it was int...

from Niecierpek

I listened to it, and read it at the same time as it has many illustrations, and one would miss a lot by only listening to it. Actually, I'm wondering why my library decided to buy this particular book in its audio version, as it's the most inappropriate of Eco's works to have in this form. They ...