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Title: Foucault's Pendulum for dummies
Review: A shallow, dumbed down version of Umberto Eco's great Foucault's Pendulum. After all of the raves I have heard about this book and this author, I was very disappointed. The characters are predictable and only lightly fleshed out, especially the villians. Everyone's motives in action and in life are easily explainable in a paragraph or two, and many of the characters are just absurd (the assassin especially, or sorry, Hassassin). The plot is filled with historical references and conspiracy theories, but it all feels hastily put together and too light, as if intended for TV. A second-rate thriller at best.
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