Anthea's review
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
Anthea's review
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Anthea's review
rating:
bookshelves:
nonfantasy_fiction
recommended for: conspiracy nerds and occult geeks (yay!)
"Suddenly it all seemed to come together: satanic and
Moorish rites in the Temple of Jerusalem, African
witchcraft for the subproletarians in the Brazilian
Northeast, the message of Provins with its hundred and
twenty years, and the hundred and twenty years of the
Rosicrucians.
"I felt like a walking blender mixing strange concoctions
of different liquers. Or maybe I had caused some kind of
short circuit, tripping over a varicolored tangle of
wires that had been entwining themselves for a long,
long time."
I'm pretty sure this is one of those cursed books that
take over the reader's mind and never really let go. I
kept picking it up when I should've known better (right
before I needed to leave for work, or when my stomach
was insisting it should've been a mealtime hours ago),
and then there I'd be, sucked in once again. Diabolical!
Three cynical friends--incredulous Casaubon,
Kabbalah-obsessed Diotallevi, and the witty and
...more
Moorish rites in the Temple of Jerusalem, African
witchcraft for the subproletarians in the Brazilian
Northeast, the message of Provins with its hundred and
twenty years, and the hundred and twenty years of the
Rosicrucians.
"I felt like a walking blender mixing strange concoctions
of different liquers. Or maybe I had caused some kind of
short circuit, tripping over a varicolored tangle of
wires that had been entwining themselves for a long,
long time."
I'm pretty sure this is one of those cursed books that
take over the reader's mind and never really let go. I
kept picking it up when I should've known better (right
before I needed to leave for work, or when my stomach
was insisting it should've been a mealtime hours ago),
and then there I'd be, sucked in once again. Diabolical!
Three cynical friends--incredulous Casaubon,
Kabbalah-obsessed Diotallevi, and the witty and
...more
