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Maria
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posted 07-25-2005 02:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Maria   Click Here to Email Maria     Edit/Delete Message
The book is called Baudolino, by Umberto Eco. It's more about medieval life than about castles, but I thought it was worth mentioning. It's the saga of an adventurer, who goes from Italy to Constantinopolis with the German Emperor Frederic Barbarossa. There also is a quest for the Holy Grail, but not as you wold expect.

Peter
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posted 07-25-2005 02:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peter   Click Here to Email Peter     Edit/Delete Message
I have read some of his works, but many years. Can't recall what they were now.
Should come to me later.
Peter

Merlin
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posted 08-08-2005 05:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Merlin   Click Here to Email Merlin     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Maria. Read this one two years ago and loved the beginning, but not so much the search for the Grail-passages. I appreciate Eco very much and have read most of his books. Right now I'm reading his newest work, "The mysterious flame of queen Loana" (I'm not sure if this is the title of the english version, but it is in italian and german...). And "The name of the rose" sure is a masterpiece...

Maria
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posted 08-15-2005 07:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Maria   Click Here to Email Maria     Edit/Delete Message
Oh, I loved "The Name of the rose". Baudolino get a bit... crowded... not sure it's the right word, but I think it get's too complicated towards the end

Merlin
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posted 08-15-2005 10:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Merlin   Click Here to Email Merlin     Edit/Delete Message
Complicated? Well, have you read his other great work, "The Faucoult Pendulum"? So complicated and full of riddles and passages from old books that he wrote a vol.2 to explain them to all "normal" readers. But nonetheless to be strongly recommended... ;-)

ipflo
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posted 08-15-2005 01:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ipflo   Click Here to Email ipflo     Edit/Delete Message
Yes, I can also recommend both books of Umberto Eco, both the name of the rose and the faucoult pendulum are fabulous. He also wrote another book called The Island of the Day Before. But i did not read this one nor the Baudolino book.

ipflo

Merlin
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posted 08-15-2005 05:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Merlin   Click Here to Email Merlin     Edit/Delete Message
I've read also "The island of the day before" but was a bit disappointed. What Eco already did in the "Foucaults Pendulum" became a mania: The book is stuffed with knowledge gathered from other books, so much that reading an the story itself became boring. Not his best one, I think.

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