Jun-Dai's review
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
Jun-Dai's review
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Jun-Dai's review
rating:
I was lucky enough to read this book around the same time I discovered the Wikipedia. Every morning I would read about 10-15 pages during my commute, and I would assemble a small army of post-it notes on the pages with references that I didn't understand, and in-between tasks at work I'd look them all up and fill out the post-it notes and then re-read those pages on the way back home with all of the context I'd picked up during the day.
It's a shame William Weaver didn't have the Wikipedia at his disposal when he was translating it, but I guess it was probably more fun to work through piles of occult reference books, chasing Eco down various rabbit holes.
Anyways, this is the king of treasure-hunt, secret-society, conspiracy-theory, saving-the-world narratives. Indiana Jones' The Last Crusade, National Treasure, and The Da Vinci Code, have nothing on this monster. I fear the possibility of a film adaptation, which has been long in coming but will probabl...more
It's a shame William Weaver didn't have the Wikipedia at his disposal when he was translating it, but I guess it was probably more fun to work through piles of occult reference books, chasing Eco down various rabbit holes.
Anyways, this is the king of treasure-hunt, secret-society, conspiracy-theory, saving-the-world narratives. Indiana Jones' The Last Crusade, National Treasure, and The Da Vinci Code, have nothing on this monster. I fear the possibility of a film adaptation, which has been long in coming but will probabl...more
