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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Three clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game — until the game starts taking over. Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco — or indeed anyone — has ever devised. Review:"[The book] is not meant to be easy....[But] great are the rewards for those who actually manage to read it....You may call the book an intellectual triumph, if not a fictional one." Anthony Burgess, The New York Times Book Review Review:"Brilliant...experimental and funny, literary and philosophical....A quest novel that is deeper and richer than The Name of the Rose" The New York Times Review:"An intellectual adventure story, as sensational, thrilling and packed with arcana as Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Count of Monte Cristo." The Washington Post Book World Review:"As brilliant and quirky as The Name of the Rose, as mischievous and wide-ranging. A virtuoso performance." The San Francisco Chronicle Review:"[This novel] is several books wrapped up in one, some more successful than others....Although scholarship is supposed to be Eco's forte, the erudite sections of [the novel] are perhaps [its] weakest elements....[But] interest invariably picks up when the novel returns to Belbo's personal experiences." The Atlantic Monthly What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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