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| 942.1 | Too much like real literature | SNDPIT::SMITH | Smoking -> global warming! :+) | Tue Jan 08 1991 20:09 | 7 |
| I started to read it (my wife gave me it for Xmas), but after about a
dozen pages I decided it wasn't going anywhere in any great hurry and
started looking for some real SF. Too much of what I'll call
striving_for_great_literature and flowery paragraphs without any plot,
characterization, or any of the other things I like to find.
Willie
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| 942.2 | | LABRYS::CONNELLY | House of the Axe | Tue Jan 08 1991 22:58 | 9 |
| re: .0
Well worth the effort to read...(IMO)...especially if you've read his
previous novel, _The Name of the Rose_. The subject of both is heresy
and secret societies. In one case the setting is medieval, in the other
modern. The theme is that secrets can never be totally discovered...if
the solution to one secret does not contain another secret then it can
never satisfy the need that we have for mystery in the world.
paul
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| 942.3 | Keep Going !!!! | HLFS00::FLORIS | Never say never! Shout it ! | Wed Jan 09 1991 05:36 | 17 |
| I should suggest you keep on reading and I prommiss that you are
adicted before you finished half of it !
IMO it is a great example of a *very* ironic description of modern
science and scientists (just like the name of the Rose was between the
lines). Also there is I think quite a lot of mild self-critisism
(after all ECO is a scientist hiomself).
And the story IS entertaining if you have a taste for it, and also the
plot gets more intersting by the page.
yes you're right: I LOVED reading it....
Regards,
Floris
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| 942.4 | pendulum | GVA05::YSCHWEIZER | | Mon Jan 14 1991 07:37 | 8 |
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Please can somebody give me the exact book name and also the author.
I would like to buy it here in Geneva, but it needs some more details.
Thanks and regards,
Yvonne
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| 942.5 | | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | len, EMA, LKG2-2/W10, DTN 226-7556 | Mon Jan 14 1991 12:21 | 6 |
| Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco.
No ISBN handy, sorry. I believe it just came out in paperback.
len.
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| 942.6 | | SHIRE::TONINATO | pizza e pastasciutta | Thu Jan 17 1991 05:40 | 4 |
| Hi Yvonne,
If you go to Naville (close to Cornavin) I know they have it in paperback.
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| 942.7 | The NY Times Review of Books | SUBWAY::MAXSON | Repeal Gravity | Mon Jan 21 1991 17:30 | 6 |
| This title is, as of yesterday, #6 on the New York Times' Bestseller
List for Massmarket Fiction (to wit, paperbacks). A brief review was
enthusiastic.
- Max
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| 942.8 | | LABRYS::CONNELLY | House of the Axe | Wed Jan 23 1991 00:37 | 9 |
| re: .7
> A brief review was
> enthusiastic.
Interesting, in that Anthony Burgess's review in the NYT Book Review
almost made me not read this book (which would have been a grave mistake!).
paul
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| 942.9 | Belatedly ... | HELIX::KALLIS | Pumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift | Tue Feb 18 1992 16:07 | 9 |
| Without trying to give too much away, this book is a lot of fun, with a great
deal of scope and hardly any depth. Set in contemporary times, it demonstrates
a number of things, including several that might fall into the "self actualiz-
ing" category.
Going into detail would spoil a lot, but it's clear Eco was having a roaring
good time with this one.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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