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Post by scooter on Jun 8, 2006 11:54:54 GMT -5
Here's a shout out for Italian novelist and semiologist Umberto Eco. Might appeal to Enigma fans. "The Name of the Rose", with its pages of untranslated Latin, might be fun for some of you Latin geeks. "Baudolino" is a fairly recent one. My favourite is "Foucault's Pendulum", which I would describe as The Da Vinci Code with brains.
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goldlocks
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Post by goldlocks on Jun 12, 2006 8:10:04 GMT -5
I totally agree with you, Scooter. I read "Foucault's Pendulum" many years ago (actually, I was 15 when I read it for the first time and I found it terribly complicated)... But at the age of 21, I found it enthralling. Reading Dan Brown's books on the other hand... Junk-food for the brains Eco's love for the language probably discourages many people from reading him. There are other books I've tried to read (The Island of the Day Before), but they aren't as intriguing as the ones you've mentioned. I really loved Baudolino, it's such a hilarious and informative book! A MUST read. Still gotta read "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana", hasn't yet been published as softcover in German.
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