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Title: Baudolino is tedious
Review: Page after page of Eco spinning his wheels, never really saying anything. Every sentence pokes fun at something. Baudolino reminds me of Catch-22; both make you laugh, and after 500 hundred pages of the same jokes over and over you get tired. I started putting it down for a week every once in a while, and I never missed it. When I picked it back up again it was always amusing for the first day, then I would get bored again.The novel is tedious. Zero stars for readability.You do learn a little about the history of language, and Eco does an excellent job of making you feel like you relate to, humans living in the 12th-13th century. 2 pity stars.Read Calvino if you are looking for a contemporary Italian novelist with fascinating prose and something to say.
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