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Title: the Land of the Dead
Review: At some point, nearing the end of the novel, someone arrives in the Land of Dead where souls suffer by deteriorating at infinitely slow rates and not having the ability to cease to exist completely. This is a pretty decent metaphor for how I felt approaching the last 100 pages of this book.I am someone who absolutely loved both "Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum" and I, naturally, expected more of the same. If you're like me, you will not find it here. Maybe about 20% of the book is genuinely enjoyable, and it offers some juicy tid-bits thrown in that are only appreciable by people intimately familiar with "The Three Musketeers," which, fortunately, I am. As for the rest, I often caught myself asking "Why am I still reading this?" For all my earnest suffering and faith, there was no payoff in the end.
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