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Summary: The best one of the "big&thick" books
Review: An amazing masterpiece- no comments at all. It seems that I will have to read this book some more times just to understand the mysteries and signs of this Italian man.Gatis Svox, (18), Latvia
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Summary: i hope there'll be a lot more books like this.
Review: I came across this book when i visited Nepal a few years ago. Bought it cheap, soft cover. I always like detective story books and was thrilled when i found out that The Name...has a very profound message almost in all areas, be it in literature, philosophy, theology or history. While travelling, i actually felt transported to the scene of the story in the book. I hope more books similar to this can be published...
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Summary: Readable on many levels
Review: Decide how you want to read this book: As a detective story, a theological work, a philosophical work or as an historical work. Once you've read it in your chosen way, read it again and new nuances will open up to you.This is Eco's most symbolically rich work, studying the contrasts of rationalism and religious fanaticism. The author explores the religious sub-concious and does it engrossingly. Also made into a film with Sean Connery, Christian Slater and F. Murray Abrahams. It is perhaps excelled by Foucault's Pendulum, but at all costs avoid The Island of the Day Before. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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Summary: MAS QUE UNA NOVELA.....
Review: He leido el libro de Umberto Eco unas dos veces y he analizado el film desde un punto de vista semoitico, o por lo menos lo he intentado asi. Este libro lo considero mas que una novela de misterio o asesinatos, ya que contiene un sin fin de signos, codigos, mitos, que estan mas alla de la persepcion de un espectador casual, y que solo un espectador intencional podria reconocer.
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Summary: I'm in the minority again!! I'm not a big fan of Eco.
Review: The Name of The Rose reminds me of the recommendation our high school English teacher gave us about Tristram Shandy. "If you want to enjoy that book," she said, "skip every other chapter". If you read this book as a murder mystery, it's an amusing pastiche, a Sherlock Holmes mystery set in the middle ages. However, it's not a great mystery, though it could have been if Eco had concentrated on making it one. If what you want is semiotics or a dissertation on heresy, then you'll find that in plenty in the alternating chapters which interfere with the pace and characterization of the mystery novel. I am not qualified to judge whether these chapters are good of their kind. I suspect they are not among the finest scholarship of the genre, however. I believe this to be the most over-rated book of the latter half of the twentieth century. If you are laid up with an awful injury or stuck in a country house with no other reading matter, give Eco a try. Keep the dictionary, encyclopedia, and caffeine handy. You will need all three. If you really want to enjoy yourself, skip every other chapter!
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Summary: Much Better than the Movie!
Review: I loved this book. The beginning is a little slow, but as Eco says in his Epilogue the pace of the initial 100 pages or so helps transport you into the medieval realm... not to fear, the pace does pick up as the mystery and intrigue builds. This thought-provoking novel can be read on many levels: as a medieval history, as a mystery, as philosophical work, (a vocabulary builder!...smile), et al. The movie certainly did not do this book justice ... in fact, I thought the movie was a horrible rendition of this novel...I highly recommend reading the book instead! Once you get past the first 100 pages, you won't be able to put it down!
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Summary: the best hommage to Jorge de Burgos (Jorge Luis Borges)
Review: maybe the most reconmedable long story of the last quarter of century. but even it contains a highe level interest on itself, i think the most important thing to say about THE NAME OF.. is that is an hommage, and a conscious, well-declared, copy of the style of Borges: starting with the prologue which tell us about the whereabouts of the finding of a manuscript round the world, continuing with the blind character Jorge de Burgos (one coprotagonist of the book), and the quasi-Infinite Library (the other coprotagonist). The best thing to say about THE NAME.. is that it invitates to the reader to go without lost of time to the Borges's THE LIBRARY OF BABEL.
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Summary: "Name of the Rose" is a modern masterpiece
Review: I just finished this book yesterday, at the cost of flunking an English quiz today (we were supposed to be reading "A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man", but I wanted to finish the Eco first). I must say, it was certainly worth it. Eco is a masterful writer and teacher who can make any topic of discussion compelling. Though lacking in the sheer, hard-core intellectual scope of his next book, "Foucault's Pendulum", NAME OF THE ROSE is superior in both plot and characterization. Eco's skill is of a high enough magnitude that the mystery actually becomes secondary to the fascinating description of 14th-century intellectual life. This book is a triumph in every sense of the word.
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Summary: An engrossing narrative to be savoured
Review: In this brilliant book, not only does Eco present a startling and provoking philosophical history of mankind, but also a charming and pointed political allegory. Written at the height of U.S panic and the apex of propagandic rhetoric in the Cold War of words, Eco presents not only a telling political commentary on conditions in ( then ) contemporary Europe; but also a tightly written, brilliantly paced narrative, so rich and complex it is a joy to immerse yourself in. Not only the best book I have read, but my favourite as well. Keep that Latin Dictionary by your side, however...
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Summary: "A spoonfull of sugar..."
Review: History is dull, that's a given. Yet when it's presented in such a lively and entertaining manner as this, you simply sit back and enjoy the ride. It's so much fun to learn, when it's presented as a game. It's a great mystery in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, but it contains so much more than a simple mystery. It also is a philosophical discourse, and it contains scads of historic information. This book has everything, buy it, read it, love it. Only problem I had with it, is the ending. Like alot of mysteries, it's usually somewhat of a letdown; it seemed almost tacked on as an afterthought. So, enjoy the journey to the end, because that's the important part anyways.
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