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676042 No.676042 [Reply] [Original]

>go to amazon.com
>product page for "the name of the rose"
>read 1 star reviews written by americans
>my face

>> No.676054
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676054

Basically:
"...it has foreign words in it..."

>> No.676075

Link plox. I love raging at imbeiles.

>> No.676081

>>676075
This.

>> No.676084

>>676081
1st replier here: it isn't hard to find it, but for you people who must be spoonfed everything:
http://www.amazon.com/Name-Rose-Everymans-Library-Cloth/product-reviews/0307264890/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist
_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

>> No.676098

Eco has also written a book on translation, where he explains that the name of rose had to be watered down for the american market.
Many of the Latin passages were shortened or left out.
Don't know if this also applies for the UK-version...

>> No.676323

>>676098
it doesn't. there was more latin in the European release than there was in James Blish's' "Doctor Mirabilis".

>> No.676342

"I have read that this book is "The Da Vinci Code" for people in Mensa. Well I am in Mensa and let me tell you that when I was nearing the end I was more interested in finishing it so I could paste this review than finding out the riddle to the mystery.
If you came here cause of "The Da Vinci Code" read "Angels and Demons". If you already did that, do something more exciting than reading this book like stare at the walls for 16 hours. Just do not read this book."
oh boy....
facepalm.jpg

>> No.676345

>>676075

>I love raging at imbeiles.
>raging at imbeiles.
>imbeiles.