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Oct 09, 2018
Bogdan
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it was amazing
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Just a few thoughts after finishing it, without being a proper review:
- Medievals were such interesting personae (or at least Umberto Eco manages to make them look interesting)
- Book is a little longer than needed (most likely the editor didn't had the courage to ask the author to cut some parts, especially the ones where there are described some fictional characters and animals in which medieval people believed)
- In the end it was still another detective story, similar with the name of the rose ...more
- Medievals were such interesting personae (or at least Umberto Eco manages to make them look interesting)
- Book is a little longer than needed (most likely the editor didn't had the courage to ask the author to cut some parts, especially the ones where there are described some fictional characters and animals in which medieval people believed)
- In the end it was still another detective story, similar with the name of the rose ...more

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