Is it just me or is this guy just a terrible writer? He has no plot and it often feels like I'm being forced to watch a boring TV interview. Like, I get it dude, lets move on, I don't want to listen to two italian dudes discussing whatever that is just you masturbating to your arcane references.
Like seriously, I'm 95 pages into Foucault's Pendulum and it's such a fucking drag. He hasn't described the characters nor the situation or anything about them and then goes on tirades about fucking kabbalic sects and templar sexual woes. Like dude, get a life. None of this is going to be referenced for more than a sentence later and you're making me read pages upon pages of this crap.
You're a pleb, that's it. Thanks for outing yourself to us.
Dylan Mitchell
I haven't revealed anything. You, on the other hand, demonstrate your subservience to the crowd.
Jaxon Sanchez
agree 100%
Josiah Peterson
>he has no plot >I've read 95 pages of one of his books
hmm
Tyler Gray
The Name of the Rose has a great plot.
Andrew Murphy
>reading for the plot >expecting Eco to be like Steven Kang >sad when he's not commit suicide
Julian Smith
I have not and will never read stephen "pedo" kang
Jayden Gomez
>tirades about fucking kabbalic sects and templar sexual woes >not interesting tsktsktsk
Brody Williams
The discussions of historical content are meant to show you what sort of people the three main dudes are. Sortof 'show don't tell' but via the mechanism of telling you about something else.
I'd say there are two structural problems in this book though:
a) the opening section, which is meant to be a motivating mystery - how did the guy end up here? - is overlong without being dramatic enough.
b) the Brazil trip is padding, and the development of the suspicious immortal character should have been incorporated into an earlier section.
Hunter Richardson
I've read this book a lot of times and each time is was better. First time I read it as a thriller, skipping all philosophy and history jibrish, later is started to interest me.
Jose Sanders
It really got me interested in that esoteric stuff.
Read Dan Brown if Eco is too much for you. Its Eco, but dumbed down for plebs
Yeah Dan Brown is a second rate Ecco I remember reading Illuminati and being pissed off at how much he ripped him off
Zachary Peterson
Foucault's Pendulum and Baudolino are two of my favourites.
Couldn't finish island of the tommorow and the flame or whatever it was called.
Lincoln Anderson
>he reads the English translation never going to make it
Andrew Perez
he wrote the first 150 pages of his books precisely to filter retards, i guess it worked
Adam Rivera
You probably don't know enough about Italian ultraleftism in the late 1970s.
Jayden Young
Wasn't that for the name of the rose? or did he do it for both?
David Torres
>Here’s a story: a while back I was up for the gig writing the movie of Umberto Eco’sFoucault’s Pendulum. And I was going through the book, analyzing its structure, and I realized that Eco spends 300 pages, and 12 years of narrative, before anything substantial happens. And I thought that was an odd choice for a master storyteller to make, and I said so to the producer, who laughed and told me that Eco had been surprised by and suspicious of the overwhelming success of his previous novel,The Name of the Rose; he felt if it werethatsuccessful, it must not be smart enough. So forFoucault, he deliberately made the reader wade through 300 pages of sluggish backstory before rewarding them with an electrifying, fast-paced thriller.
>dan brown and eco are his sources for esoteric info
Michael Davis
wasn't the brazil trip making some kind of point about roasties?
Caleb Jones
The sequence with the girlfriend unwillingly giving in to the superstitions she was raised under is top quality, but if you cut it the story of the novel would be unchanged. Bearing in mind how much text is used as a build up to that scene I think that's a structural failing
>demonstrate your subservience Learn to write like an adult, faggot.
Kevin Miller
Umberto Eco books are utter crap. All of them.
Tyler Mitchell
Extrapolate your opinion.
Mason Allen
Extrapolate? Okay.
If he's brought back from the dead, his new books will be no better.
Carter Wright
Yeah well you know what I think? I think you should be banned for being a brainlet, you dumb little boy. What do you think of that, you dumb fucking bitch? Gonna cry? Gonna piss your pants maybe? Maybe shidd and cumm?
Samuel Howard
Brainlet cope
David Roberts
thanks bro u just sold me on reading umberto with "tirades about fucking kabbalic sects and templar sexual woes"
Jackson Price
TIL Eco is dead
Bentley Taylor
This. Umberto Eco is boomer junk.
Owen Stewart
Taking the first 75% of the book before you get to the point is hardly the sign of a good writer, user.
