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Title: It got an extra star for being about history
Review: This is one of the worst books I have ever read. Also it's my first Uberto Eco book. I had high hopes of Eco as I had heard that he's a linguistics professor. There is always a possibility that it was the translator who made this book read with the fluency of a Dick and Jane novel. Either way, now I would have a really hard time reading another Eco book. The other reviewers make me feel that perhaps I might appreciate his other books. It would be hard to open another Eco book though. I admit I kind of feel a grudge against him for writing this book. I can actually forgive the tedious personality of Baudolino, it's the lowest common denominator writing style that really made this an unfortunate reading experience for me.
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