Title: Not even close to Name of the Rose
Product review: I've long searched for another Name of the Rose, and thought I'd finally found it with IFP. WHAT a disappointment. A rambling mess that I could not finish. Not only did I not care about the victims and why they died,the characters are uninteresting and disconnected with times. Pears just isn't much of a storyteller, the reader continually waits for something to happen. He would have been better off cutting the book in half. I found little to recommend, and I'm taken aback by its positive reviews.I finished "Name" with a great feel for the times, the personalities of the people, how, and what, they thought about the world around them, and profound sense of history. Propelled along by a terrific mystery and compellng protagonists and you have a great book. Pears does not deliver any of this.
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