false 255987 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883m/255987.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883s/255987.jpg THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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.]]> 17841 69 2713987 book 1988 Il pendolo di Foucault total:7032|5:2264|4:2397|3:1551|2:577|1:243| 7032 26958 10621 742 1730 3.86 30510 2697 288638 29122 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.84 5999 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 4 20 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Mar 16 07:31:35 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 16:41:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 14298321 864922 255987 0345368754 9780345368751 61 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883m/255987.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883s/255987.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255987.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.82 347 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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.]]> 1988 5 8 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...]]> 1195073 84063 863942 0345418271 9780345418272 15 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179000348m/863942.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179000348s/863942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863942.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.93 85 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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.


From the Paperback edition.]]> 1988 5 4 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Sun May 13 20:13:58 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:23:13 -0800 2009
The book, however, is very difficult to read. The language is dense, and in the fir...more...]]> 45735105 834216 529103 0151327653 9780151327652 33 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558725m/529103.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558725s/529103.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529103.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.87 174 One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black hair, an Adolphe Menjou mustache, wears maroon socks & once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan editors that he has discovered a coded message from a Templar Plan, centuries old & involving Stonehenge, to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy.
The editors (who have spent altogether too much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult by self-subsidized poetasters & dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They'll make a Plan of their own. But how?
Randomly they throw in manuscript pages on hermetic thought. The Masters of the World, who live beneath the earth. The Comte de Saint-Germain, who live forever. The secrets of the solar system contained in the measurements of the Great Pyramid. The Satanic initiation rites of the Knights of the Temple. Assassins, Rosicrucians, Brazilian voodoo. They feed all this into their computer, which is named Abulafia (Abu for short), after the mediaeval Jewish cabalist.
A terrific joke, they think, until people begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one, starting with Colonel Ardenti.]]> 1988 2 4 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...]]> 11623468 572137 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 5 5 false Fri Jan 04 08:18:35 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 06:59:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1218037 85198 529103 0151327653 9780151327652 33 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558725m/529103.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558725s/529103.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529103.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black hair, an Adolphe Menjou mustache, wears maroon socks & once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan editors that he has discovered a coded message from a Templar Plan, centuries old & involving Stonehenge, to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy.
The editors (who have spent altogether too much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult by self-subsidized poetasters & dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They'll make a Plan of their own. But how?
Randomly they throw in manuscript pages on hermetic thought. The Masters of the World, who live beneath the earth. The Comte de Saint-Germain, who live forever. The secrets of the solar system contained in the measurements of the Great Pyramid. The Satanic initiation rites of the Knights of the Temple. Assassins, Rosicrucians, Brazilian voodoo. They feed all this into their computer, which is named Abulafia (Abu for short), after the mediaeval Jewish cabalist.
A terrific joke, they think, until people begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one, starting with Colonel Ardenti.]]> 1988 5 3 false Mon May 14 23:08:36 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:27:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40115911 310055 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 5 2 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...]]> 173995 16463 255987 0345368754 9780345368751 61 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883m/255987.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883s/255987.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255987.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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.]]> 1988 2 2 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 06 08:18:39 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 16 16:21:36 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 52874569 1091209 529103 0151327653 9780151327652 33 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558725m/529103.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558725s/529103.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529103.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black hair, an Adolphe Menjou mustache, wears maroon socks & once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan editors that he has discovered a coded message from a Templar Plan, centuries old & involving Stonehenge, to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy.
The editors (who have spent altogether too much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult by self-subsidized poetasters & dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They'll make a Plan of their own. But how?
Randomly they throw in manuscript pages on hermetic thought. The Masters of the World, who live beneath the earth. The Comte de Saint-Germain, who live forever. The secrets of the solar system contained in the measurements of the Great Pyramid. The Satanic initiation rites of the Knights of the Temple. Assassins, Rosicrucians, Brazilian voodoo. They feed all this into their computer, which is named Abulafia (Abu for short), after the mediaeval Jewish cabalist.
A terrific joke, they think, until people begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one, starting with Colonel Ardenti.]]> 1988 2 1 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...]]> 19844887 1055608 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 1 3 false Wed Apr 09 21:34:11 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 21:39:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 46831384 1223383 255987 0345368754 9780345368751 61 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883m/255987.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883s/255987.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255987.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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.]]> 1988 4 1 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.

If you have a cop...more...]]> 34455334 334227 529103 0151327653 9780151327652 33 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558725m/529103.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558725s/529103.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529103.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black hair, an Adolphe Menjou mustache, wears maroon socks & once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan editors that he has discovered a coded message from a Templar Plan, centuries old & involving Stonehenge, to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy.
The editors (who have spent altogether too much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult by self-subsidized poetasters & dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They'll make a Plan of their own. But how?
Randomly they throw in manuscript pages on hermetic thought. The Masters of the World, who live beneath the earth. The Comte de Saint-Germain, who live forever. The secrets of the solar system contained in the measurements of the Great Pyramid. The Satanic initiation rites of the Knights of the Temple. Assassins, Rosicrucians, Brazilian voodoo. They feed all this into their computer, which is named Abulafia (Abu for short), after the mediaeval Jewish cabalist.
A terrific joke, they think, until people begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one, starting with Colonel Ardenti.]]> 1988 5 1 false Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 03 13:05:42 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 08 10:06:32 -0700 2009
It attacks bot...more...]]> 32015594 179200 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 3 1 false Thu Sep 04 12:43:54 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 07:15:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 24248247 1229337 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 5 1 false Wed Jun 11 11:39:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 13:23:14 -0700 2008
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...]]> 17935561 855228 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 2 1 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...]]> 3974300 147818 255987 0345368754 9780345368751 61 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883m/255987.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197883s/255987.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255987.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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.]]> 1988 2 1 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...]]> 1476861 30428 863942 0345418271 9780345418272 15 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179000348m/863942.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179000348s/863942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863942.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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.


From the Paperback edition.]]> 1988 5 1 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.

you get everything in here, backed up by col...more...]]> 965938 73783 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 2 1 false Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 01 07:41:02 -0700 2007 Tue May 27 08:40:56 -0700 2008
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...]]> 9095182 217321 295873 0330314971 9780330314978 28 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum (Picador Books)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173479798m/295873.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173479798s/295873.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295873.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.69 159 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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.]]> 1988 0 1 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...]]> 19268475 289556 17841 015603297X 9780156032971 572 <![CDATA[Foucault's Pendulum]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271m/17841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854271s/17841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum 3.83 7032 Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

 

</DIV>]]> 1988 3 1 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...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=255987