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View original postI've always wanted to love Eco, but I have yet to finish any of the three books I've started.
View original postEither Queen Loana or Baudolino is probably his most accessible book - any Eco book will go into crazy detail on some things, but the nostalgia for 1940s comics / movies (Queen Loana) and the medieval tall tales and legends (Baudolino) are rather easier to wade through than the conspiracy theories of Foucault's Pendulum or all the religious art discussion in Name of the Rose, if you ask me.
I'm wondering if I could get into Baudolino, given that I tend to love tales/legends, but the others you've listed are the ones I've tried and quit.
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View original postCouldn't get into Possession. I guess I could go on...
View original postOkay, now that is shocking. Possession is among my all-time favourites, as you may know. Though I will admit, the present-time storyline starts off awkwardly, and really kind of remains awkward, because the characters there are simply that awkward. The two Victorian writers whom they research and whose correspondence they unearth are much more fun to read about (and their letters to each other are fantastic).
Possession is among my all-time favourites, as you may know. Though I will admit, the present-time storyline starts off awkwardly, and really kind of remains awkward, because the characters there are simply that awkward. The two Victorian writers whom they research and whose correspondence they unearth are much more fun to read about (and their letters to each other are fantastic). I know... I was thinking of you when I wrote that, and I feel suitably sheepish. However, your comment is somewhat heartening - I didn't like the modern people, but I never really made it much past them. Maybe I would like the book if I let myself get into the heart of it.
Speaking of overrated authors...
- 18/04/2014 04:55:41 PM
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Hemingway, for the most part
- 18/04/2014 07:31:30 PM
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Coelho is like Deepak Chopra.
- 18/04/2014 07:36:45 PM
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Speaking of Deepak Chopra.
- 18/04/2014 09:20:22 PM
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It's even worse when he says something without preparation.
- 19/04/2014 04:35:49 PM
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I'm sure I would need a lot of alcohol to get through an event of his. *NM*
- 20/04/2014 04:14:49 AM
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H.P. Lovecraft
- 18/04/2014 09:16:24 PM
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I'd add Joyce. In French I think the most overrated novelist is Proust.
- 18/04/2014 10:29:04 PM
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That's actually really hard.
- 18/04/2014 10:42:35 PM
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You could have always said Dan Brown if you were having problems. 
*NM*
- 19/04/2014 04:40:23 PM
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*NM*
- 19/04/2014 04:40:23 PM
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Yeah, but he's not overrated.
- 19/04/2014 04:52:34 PM
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I think they bash him more because he tries to pass fiction off as fact.
- 19/04/2014 06:22:59 PM
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I did not like James Fenimore Cooper (Last of the Mohicans, specifically)
- 23/04/2014 09:23:44 PM
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Have you tried The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana?
- 23/04/2014 09:52:28 PM
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You can't seriously believe Baudolino is good, much less accessible.
- 23/04/2014 10:15:28 PM
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The ones listed already are ones I agree with.
- 23/04/2014 10:36:04 PM
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I've never understood people who read everything Shakespeare wrote.
- 26/04/2014 07:17:27 PM
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