Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Umberto Eco
Description: Take THAT, DaVinci Code!
2006-07-29
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The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose
Narrated by a young benedictine monk, Adso of Melk, Umberto Eco pulls together a remarkably complete tale of disturbing and pivotal occurences at a rich Abbey in the 1300s. Monks have been murdered just as a great meeting to determine the very powers of the pope and the legitimacy of the Franciscan movement to poverty is about to begin. Enter one William of Baskerville, an ex-inquisitor champion of logic and reason who resembles a Sherlock Holmes, but more. All of this chaos falls now on his shoulders to calmly search through and eliminate the wrong arriving cleanly at what could only be the Right.
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by chaserude
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Umberto Eco
Tags: mystery philosophy historical_fiction
2006-07-10
by machiavelli
Type: fiction
Status: liked
Author: Umberto Eco
Description: A macabre murder mystery in a monastery. I love Umberto Eco, and this book in particular is...
2006-04-16
by snurp
Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Umberto Eco
Tags: mystery religion historical detective
2006-02-10
by warmjelly
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Umberto Eco
Tags: mystery literature
2006-02-06
by funicelli
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Umberto Eco
Description: The search for an ancient book, the fifth book of poetics by Aristotele, became the search...
2005-11-10