Originally posted by shavixmirAgreed. Also try "The Man Who Was Thursday" by G.K. Chesterton.
Absolute crap.
No character development, no differentiation of plot and certainly no dialogues worth mentioning.
In fact, the whole story heads towards one point and doesn't even attempt to deviate.
PLUS, and this is what really pissed me off, is that the epilogue contradicts the point of the story.
PURE AND UTTERLY PATHETIC.
And the writer ...[text shortened]... ter AND with one of the best endings ever written, read Umberto Eco's Faucoult's Pendulum.
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Originally posted by twenty6Umberto Eco is a writer and modern philosopher. He has written a handful of fiction books that are reasonably heavy going. The most well known was The Name Of The Rose, which was made into a film starring Sean Connery in the late 80's. I say it's heavy going, but it is an excellent read if you can get past his method of story telling - for example, he deviates from the central story for a whole chapter just to describe the carvings on a church door .... 10 pages (20 sides) in small print 😲
who is umberto and what does he write
The book that shavixmir is talking about is called Foucault's Pendulum. It's an immense tome about conspiracy theories and links between them all - it ties in the Knights of the Templar, the Illuminati, the Masons and a multitude of other secret organisations and groups and blends fact with fiction in a similar way to Dan Brown. This one is really good, but I have yet to finish it - It's just not a easy read, and certainly not bedtime reading. It's long, too. Completing it has been put off until the summer now....
I actually really enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, and read it for the work of fiction that it is. After reading his other 3 books, it is clear that Dan Brown is exhausting his current writing template, but they are all worth reading. I can't believe that people are taking The Da Vinci Code seriously though - why???
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Originally posted by shavixmirTotally and utterly agree with you, Shav! 😲 An overwhelming intellect writing for the soul 😲
If you want to read a story along the same lines, but 1.000.000 times better AND with one of the best endings ever written, read Umberto Eco's Faucoult's Pendulum.
Just for the young and uninitiated : http://www.umbertoeco.com/ 😉 Enjoy!
Originally posted by HindsteinEco got there first.... These other copyists are trite, clumsy and boringly derivative 😴😴😴😴😴
Umberto Eco is a writer and modern philosopher. He has written a handful of fiction books that are reasonably heavy going. The most well known was The Name Of The Rose, which was made into a film starring Sean Connery in the late 80's. I say it's heavy going, but it is an excellent read if you can get past his method of story telling - for example, he d ...[text shortened]... ding. I can't believe that people are taking The Da Vinci Code seriously though - why???