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Title: An enormous disappointment
Review: I generally enjoy Eco's work. Name of the Rose was one of the best novels I've yet had the pleasure of reading. Focault's Pendulum was a little overdone, somewhat meandering, and ended poorly, but was nonetheless an extraordinary blend of the fanciful, the factual, and the metaphysical that left the reader uncertain where one ended and the others began. This book, to be frank, sucks. The parody carries the book for about 50 pages, the remainder is an exercise in boredom, meaningless (if occasionally amusing)ancillary tales, and a conclusion that is even more pointless than the rest of the book.
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