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I'd been anticipating reading it for more than 5 years, but it took me 3 or 4 tries during those years to finally get enough momentum to get beyond the first 100 pages... and it was only stubbornness that carried me through the last 300.

While I appreciate the endeavor that Eco undertook in writing this -- and love his recent slams of Dan Brown when asked about the Da Vinci Code -- it's just not a particularly enjoyable read. Long and slow, and the verbose descriptions that were so beautiful in "The Name of the Rose" feel gratuitous and tedious in this book. ]]>