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Originally posted by baltassoc
FWIW, I picked up Foucault's Pendulum at an airport when someone left it behind in a waiting lounge, having never heard of Eco. Eco's books can be divided into two categories. This is definitely in the fun read category (along with Name of the Rose).
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You are the first person I've ever heard call Foucault's Pendulum a "fun read," and this is from someone who loved The Name Of The Rose and actually read all of Foucault's Pendulum -- I may have made it through only because I was underemployed at the time and enjoy conspiracy theory lit (Hank, read: softball). The thing reads like a semiotics dissertation in the guise of literature. For a huge book, it's remarlably short on physical description, and when you get some you know it has Meaning. I guess I liked it, but in a ponderous intellectual way, not in a "fun" way.
My wife read it because I said it was interesting -- it wasn't a recommendation, and it took me months to get some credibility on that score back with her.
