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user-inactivated · 3624 days ago · link · · parent · post: 'bl00's Reviews #7: "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
The reasons I love this book: 1. There is only one person in the world who could have written it, I think, and luckily enough he did. 2. The prose is beautiful if often only semi-relevant. 3. The (very real) depiction of the medieval church and its infighting touches on one of my favorite branches of European history. 4. I positively eat up "philosophical fiction." (5. I have since read Anathem, which is Il Nomen in modern prose, with space, and am convinced it's the best book of the 21st century. And equally certain none of these are.)