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Title: The What? of Who? ... and why you should ignore this book.
Review: IMHO the worst book Mr. Eco has ever written bar none. If you are not a post-graduate student of Fasict Italy do not bother with this book. Even Yambo is the least well defined of Mr. Eco's lead characters. A blank slate who remembers what he has read...no..not quite...he doesn't remember (spoilers follows) all the trivial and/or popular material of his childhood and we are forced into memory lane with this excuse for a romp through Italy of the 30's and 40's. Even when Yambo gets his second "stroke?,lesion?, brain fart?" all you can hope is that he dies. He dies but not quickly enough. There is one great story about the Gorge in his coma but not enough reason to buy the book, I only wish the sun had gone black on page 246, not 449.
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