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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco



That is such an excellent book. If you like it, you may also enjoy "Foucault's Pendulum" by Eco as well.


Very dense, the kind of book that a book geek writes.

When i read The DaVinci Code years later, it feeled like a very decaffeinated (really "de-lots of things") version of Foucaults Pendulum. It also feels like it spawned this sort of genre of history-mystery-conspiracy-airport-and-beach-novel.


And the island of the day before


And especially Bardolino




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