>>25212167
The descriptions of the architecture per scene were cute the first five times. After the 4,000 time they got old fast.

>>25212170
No way. It's a reflection of God and its creation. It adds to the theme

>>25212167
I watched the movie.

>>25212167
I read it a month ago, I really enjoyed how stupid it made me feel. Brother william in my head was voiced by David Wenham and I imagine Adso as a black haired anime tier twink. I'm not gay but I really enjoy the experienced older male/ naive younger male dynamic.

Why do people only talk about The name of the rose when it comes to Umberto Eco? Are his other books shit or is this one just too good?

>>25212176
I see that but its autistic as hell and thats saying something because I have aspergers myself

>>25212167
It's mid.

>>25212251
it got turned into a movie that's why, hella comfy movie tho fr watch it

>>25212167
It was my favourite book as a child. I should give it a reread, the last time I picked it up was when I was like 12

>>25212195
I actually have a brother named William literally. He's not a monk though He's married.

I love that book to death but first 80 pages are a tough read.

>>25212167
Baudolino is the next level

>>25212251
his other books are even more schizophrenic
if that sounds alluring to you, you will probably like them (especially as a reference point for further reading through the quotes at chapter beginnings)

>>25212256
>historian is autistically obsessed with detail
Wow!

>>25212251
Its because name of the rose is the most accessible, with the most straightforward plot. Foucaults Pendulum and Baudolino are both very good but designed to make you feel like you're having a psychotic break

>>25212268
That's about the time I read it. Picked it up at a thrift store and it appealed to me somehow. So much of it went over my mind but I loved it. It felt like my brain was marinating in information.

>>25213215
*went over my head

>>25213215
I loved both the information overload and the detective story later on. Picking it up so early probably contributed to my current love of dense, encyclopedic novels.

>>25213231
An Instance of the Fingerpost would be a good one to read. Loved that one too.

>>25212261
This tbhon. It's one of those that feels great while you're reading it but by the end really loses its luster. Thinking about it now it just seems like a leftist eyetye dork shit-talking a culture he only vaguely understands.

>>25212251
Focault’s Pendulum is too autistic for normies and not paranoid enough for schitzos.
Baudolino was treated with a lot of enthusiasm for returning to his medievalist roots but the frame of being a (period accurate) bunch of lies about a trip to the east was too intellectual and abstract for readers.
Now we’re onto the Shit Nobody Reads like Island of the Day Before, Numbero Zero and Prague Cemetery. I’d tell you about those but I haven’t read them.

>>25213102
Eco is not a historian

>>25212167
So is it any good?

>>25212251

Foucault's Pendulum is also really good.

I read one of his more recent books like 10 years ago and it wasn't great.

>>25212309
That's very uninteresting

>>25213223
Nobody cares

>>25213619
>akshually eco isn't a historian ... he's a medievalist!
ok dude

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>>25212195
>watches anime
>I'm not gay

>>25213986
>I read one of his more recent books like 10 years ago and it wasn't great.
Which one?

>>25213619
>medievalist is not a historian
Lol cunt.

>>25212167
So what is the name of the rose? I'm supposing it's not Rose.

>>25214546
he never learns the name of the peasant chick he fucked, at least in the movie lol

>>25212167
I read this in school and got megaboner in class during the part where Adso gets pussy

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>>25215815
a megaboner?

>>25214546
He didn’t need to know it because she smelled as sweet anyway. “Don’t waste my time” - Billiam Shakesman

I want to read this book: is it true that it take 100 pages before it starts to be good ?

>>25216562
From my vague memories: the early parts are very dense and talk about philosophy/history with very little happening. I personally found it engrossing, and I think I even liked it better than the later parts where all the detective stuff happens, but I also loved Moby-Dick and don't see why people find it boring.

>>25213976
Uses too many words.
Apart from that Eco was an atheist.
John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham (on whom the protagonist is modeled), and Nicholas of Cusa, could be considered precursors of the anarchists or communists, and very close to Buddhists, indeed originating what came to be known as the scientific revolution... alongside Galileo, Copernicus etc.
It is a "connect the dots" kind of picture in which witches etc. also take part, and it's a really complicated one at that... there were intellectual debates concerning this, yet Eco chose to take the side of the communists (he was a big fan of Alinsky too, apart from his 1995 essay, see below), the equivalent of running around the sinking Titanic and drilling holes... that was his shtick... why? Who knows. Maybe it made him feel alive. Maybe he was an flesh-and-bones A.I. agent. You never know with trannies.
>Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
This is the actual axis around which the book revolves, both in the story and on a meta-level.

Anyway, it's been a long time since I thought about this, but will probably enhance your reading experience lol

>>25213108
>Foucaults Pendulum and Baudolino are both very good but designed to make you feel like you're having a psychotic break
I could not get into Foucaults Pendulum, but liked Baudolino very much until it becomes some quirky surreal adventure... got through 83% of it, as reported by my Kindle™, which is very sad because I enjoyed it immensely until he got to the leper king.
Maybe a skilled (Catholic) author could forge-and-hoax it a new third act...