A review by aleffert
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

3.0

Essentially, this is all the most dreary parts of Foucault's Pendulum, where Eco eschews any actually interesting narrative to reconstruct the mother of all conspiracy theories by linking a bunch of disparate things. The construction of it is a little interesting, it is told by two characters who seem to be multiple personalities of the same body, with a narrating interleaved in their shared journal. Then he has his narrator say in big letters doesn't this sound suspicious, almost like the plot of a novel! So there are some interesting things going on here at a meta-level, but they're all more interesting in Foucault's Pendulum and Baudolino and the object level story is rather tedious.