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"Only the librarian has received the secret...."
A tale of monk factions, mysterious murders in a monastery, and libraries. Kind of like a slow-moving Dan Brown novel. ;) ...more
A tale of monk factions, mysterious murders in a monastery, and libraries. Kind of like a slow-moving Dan Brown novel. ;) ...more
I read The Name of the Rose twice, about 20 years apart. The first time I read it, I found it somewhat confusing and esoteric, with a strange plot resolution. The second time I found it still a bit confusing, but the plot resolution was much clearer, and I had become more familiar with things medieval and monastic in the intervening years. The book is an excellent read for those interested in the medieaval period or interested in exploring the huge part, for good or ill, that religion can play i
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Apr 19, 2011
Robert
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I really can't rate this book; I didn't get very far and I disliked it so intensely that I chose not to continue. I have to find characters that I like or that engage me in some way that makes me want to stay with them and share my time with them. I came to the book with a lot of very bad feelings about the role of the church in the politics of the Middle Ages, their prosecution of the Inquisition, and the widespread corruption that characterized a significant portion of the priesthood of the ti
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This book is dense. I cannot pretend to have understood everything. Which I'm still trying to decide if that's good or bad? Is it a mark of something that will take many reads and lead to richness of understanding as different insights are reached? Or is it just pretentious? Something that folks will say is excellent because it will make it appear they are smart? It reminded me a lot of the experience of reading My Name Is Red, just 10 times more so. There were times when I just had to let the p
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GREAT Thriller!!! (Watched the movie with Sean Connery also) William of Baskerville arrives at an abbey and gets involved in solving the deaths of several monks. The abbey, the mysterious monks, the Inquisition, and William's great deductive and analytical mind in solving the crimes makes this a very thrilling read!
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I was in awe as to the architecture of the novel, of the harmonious intertwining of yarns and meanings underlying layers of comprehension, of the coups-de-thetre, twists of fate and unveilings of 'absences'.
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