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Numero zero by Umberto Eco
2.0
I feel very strange giving a book from Umberto Eco such a low rating, but the whole time I was listening to it, I wondered how if can be that book is so small and still I would throw out a half because it does not add anything to the plot, to the story or to the background idea?
The book is supposed to be a satire on media that rather care about headlines and provide news that their core audience supposedly is interested in. In the beginning it also reads like that, but then it develops in a story that I did not find enjoyable or interesting to read. If this story would be written as an essay with some personal example and thoughts, it would be much shorter, contain all the relevant ideas and much more interesting to read. But it is not.
The book is supposed to be a satire on media that rather care about headlines and provide news that their core audience supposedly is interested in. In the beginning it also reads like that, but then it develops in a story that I did not find enjoyable or interesting to read. If this story would be written as an essay with some personal example and thoughts, it would be much shorter, contain all the relevant ideas and much more interesting to read. But it is not.