Good shit or bad shit?

[Anonymous No.5931676]

What do you think about it?

[Anonymous No.5931678]

Great, one of Eco's best works.
Only surpassed by Baudolino. Not sure why you made this thread.

[Anonymous No.5931686]

a cheap copy of Umberto Eco's masterpiece

[Anonymous No.5931688]

>>5931686
What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.5931689]

Anybody here read The Prague Cemetery? I'm thinking about buying a copy, but I'd like to know others opinion of it.

[Anonymous No.5931703]

>>5931689

started it this summer and then misplaced it
very ornate
supposed to be a history of sorts
need to find it
lots of food talk
slow moving but was good

on a second note:

The Name of the Rose still my favorite
Also used his Travels in Hyperreality (essays on semiology) a lot for my papers in grad school

[Anonymous No.5931715]

>>5931688
the book there is a cheap (roughly ten to twenty dollars) copy of Umberto Eco's masterpiece, The Name of the Rose

[Anonymous No.5931723]

>>5931715
hurrrdurrr it's just a picture of the copy of the masterpiece hurrrdurrrrdurrr am i edgy yet

[Anonymous No.5931730]

>>5931676
9/10, bretty gud bug

[Anonymous No.5931736]

>>5931723
from your name I deduce that you aren't edgy but anonymous

[Anonymous No.5931777]

Fuckalots Pendulum>

[Anonymous No.5932108]

>>5931676
Please avoid the word s--- in the future, it can be very disturbing to some. I have a condition where I find s--- disgusting and triggering. Let's continue to foster a climate of safe spaces and learning on this fine board. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.5932142]

>>5931676
Pretentious shit written by a pretentious twat only liked by pretentious cunts.

Also, the characters are incoherent to the max.
>young monk desperately in love with a girl
>can't stop thinking about her
>she gets imprisoned under false pretenses
>he knows she's gonna get burned alive even though she's innocent
>HE DOES ABSOLUTELY N-O-T-H-I-N-G TO SAVE HER
>doesn't think about her ever again for the rest of the novel
Great work, Eco. Really realistic and coherent characters.

And as if that wasn't enough:
>old blind monk kills people in ridiculously elaborate and uncertain ways to keep them from reading a certain book
>he keeps preserving that book for DECADES instead of destroying it and solving all his problems
>only when he's discovered he destroys the book.
Coherence? Where?

[Anonymous No.5932147]

>>5932108
Shut the fuck up, shithead.

[Anonymous No.5932152]

How difficult is it to read in Italian?

[Anonymous No.5932159]

>>5931676

Most people are going to hate on it.

I enjoyed it. It was a fun read. Just treat it like a mystery novel.

[Anonymous No.5932175]

>>5932142
The fact you failed to understand the reason he preserved the book does not mean it was inconsistent.

[Anonymous No.5932942]

>>5932108
you mean shit?

[Anonymous No.5933455]

>>5932942
He means your mom's whore.

[Anonymous No.5933536]

>>5931689

I really enjoyed both Baudolino and The Name of the Rose, especially the Eco's local Piemontese/Savoyard angle, and was keen to see how he'd handle the Risorgimento/Paris Commune etc.

I was really disappointed.

Maybe the translation was lacking (I wouldn't know), but I can probably chalk it up to the (thoroughly unlikable) narrator(s)' virulent anti-clericalism/anti-semitism, and general incoherence. It's almost unpleasant enough to spoil the rest of the book.

Don't let me dissuade you from reading it, especially if you've read his other novels; I'd be keen to know what you think. Don't buy it, though; the library's your friend.

I'm drunk, and feeling Feels. Hold me, /lit/.

[Anonymous No.5933720]

Ciao, italian reporting: Read in italian. Not that hard.
>>5932152

[Anonymous No.5933743]

>>5932142

this post was much funnier in the original Italian