Title: Overwritten pretentious drivel
Product review: The plot is elaborate, yet unrewarding, the style tiresome and forced, and the cardboard characters altogether uninteresting, except to the author. Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose do what Norfolk was trying to do--but do it well; buy one of them instead.
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