false <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166253875m/10504.jpg 17841 67 A Colonel Ardenti starts it all: he tells three editors that he has discovered a coded message about a centuries-old Knights Templar plan to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy. The editors, bored with rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult and amused by his claims, decide to cook up a Plan of their own. Into their computer they feed manuscript pages on Satanic initiation rites, Rosicrucianism, the measurements of the Great Pyramid--and out comes a map indicating a point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled, a point located at Foucault's Pendulum in Paris. A terrific joke, they think. Until people begin to disappear mysteriously, starting with the colonel... 2713987 book 1988 Il pendolo di Foucault total:6813|5:2203|4:2317|3:1495|2:559|1:239| 6813 26125 10240 727 4 20 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Mar 16 07:31:35 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 16 07:32:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 8 false false Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 01 13:31:29 -0800 2008 Sat May 03 13:00:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 4 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 08 09:34:46 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 04 12:40:25 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri Jan 04 08:18:35 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 06:59:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Sun May 13 20:13:58 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 16:32:33 -0700 2007
The book, however, is very difficult to read. The language is dense, and in the fir...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 19:42:02 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 20:45:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon May 14 23:08:36 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 13:07:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 06 08:18:39 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 10 19:33:01 -0700 2007 ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Apr 16 03:51:24 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 03:51:24 -0700 2009
The characters have no depth whatsoever. The plot is endless, pointless running around. I suppose the point could be that we are all meaningless characters leading empty, pointless lives, and that there is n...more...]]> 1 3 false false Wed Apr 09 21:34:11 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 21:39:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Wed Feb 18 21:53:23 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 22:04:01 -0800 2009 2
I really liked this book. Not quite enough to give it five stars. If I could, I'd give it 4 and a half.

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I read this book last year, but I liked it so much that I had to include it.

On its face, Foucault's Pendulum is an occult thriller, one ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Mar 17 09:03:48 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 09:19:30 -0700 2008
Publisher's Weekly said that it is ..."Dense, packed with meaning, often startlingly provocati...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 02 11:00:42 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 11:05:51 -0700 2007 Foucault's Pendulum. Three friends play at conspiracy theory, in their hyper-cynical "The Plan" game, and gradually lose themselves in it. Is their invention truer than they kn...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 13:48:19 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 13:48:40 -0700 2007 tough book to get through. I actually can't recall the ending, so i think i'm going to have to read it again.

You can think of it as being dan brown for hardcore readers, rather than the pulp fiction crowd.

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Hearing and reading only good things about this book, I had really high expectations for it, thinking it would be better than Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. But alas, it simply wasn't. Sure, Eco's book has more obscure occult arcana and esoterica, but the story, I th...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 14 06:29:22 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 07:14:47 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Tue Apr 01 22:35:33 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 22:35:33 -0700 2008
But now, having plumbed the literary depths of Rosicrucians, alchemist...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=10504