Originally Posted by
St. Troy
Just started The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco.
TNOTR has been described (I'm paraphrasing) as "like The Da Vinci Code, but without the bad writing." While I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code (as well as other things from Dan Brown) and didn't require an improved version of it, comparisons to it automatically get my attention. I haven't read Eco before, but a few of his books have attracted my attention (including Foucault's Pendulum, The Prague Cemetery, and Numero Zero) and I've wanted to dive in for a while.
Fortunately, a copy of the Folio Society's edition of TNOTR recently became available for stupid-cheap money ($32), I pounced, and am now reading it.
Only 14 pages in, but intrigued so far (and it's always nice to hold a Folio book).