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A review by misslezlee
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
3.0
***CONTAINS SPOILERS ***
Rereading - the first time was over thirty years ago. I do not remember there being so much philosophizing, pages and pages of it that I mostly skipped. I did remember that the protagonist never found out the Name of the Rose ( but think I may be remembering that from the movie...) and also the conflagration at the very end. My original copy expired in a house fire while on loan to a friend, which I thought was a fitting end.
I think I enjoyed this book more the first time I read it because Game of Thrones didn’t yet exist and so the world in The Name of the Rose had no comparisons to hold against it. Now, we have a complicated, vast storyline, populated by every kind of denizen, and we’ve *seen* those worlds. And all the plotting, jostling for power, and, and, and... George R. R. Martin began writing A Game of Thrones in 1991. I bet he read this when it first came out in 1980.
Rereading - the first time was over thirty years ago. I do not remember there being so much philosophizing, pages and pages of it that I mostly skipped. I did remember that the protagonist never found out the Name of the Rose ( but think I may be remembering that from the movie...) and also the conflagration at the very end. My original copy expired in a house fire while on loan to a friend, which I thought was a fitting end.
I think I enjoyed this book more the first time I read it because Game of Thrones didn’t yet exist and so the world in The Name of the Rose had no comparisons to hold against it. Now, we have a complicated, vast storyline, populated by every kind of denizen, and we’ve *seen* those worlds. And all the plotting, jostling for power, and, and, and... George R. R. Martin began writing A Game of Thrones in 1991. I bet he read this when it first came out in 1980.