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| + | Superb. Truly. | ||
| + | I read some 15 years ago, in secondary school. Boys 2 years older than me said this was great read. I accepted their opinion without any thinking, I read it and I hated it and forgot. Then recently I was asked by a friend to read Da Vinci Code. That is a pageturner but that is all you can say about it. I felt that I should reread Focault's Pendulum. Probably the age or the perspective from a really low-quality book on the same topic, but the book is now one of my favourites. Every line of Eco's work is far above Dan Brown's. You have a few paragraphs about templars between two brutal killings, or you have a long evening in a pub chatting about those knights. Which one do you prefer? Which one gives you more knowledge? | ||
| + | The Biggest achievement of the book is that it maintains uncertainty from the very beginning until the end. Or do you think you can have firm answers regarding a historical mistery? | ||