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| Published: 1990 |
To start off with: YES, I AM AWARE THERE IS A FILM VERSION OF THIS BOOK! ^^
You wouldn't believe how many people asked me if I knew of the film with Sean Connery while I was reading the novel - either because they loved it that much or because they wanted to spare me the supposed agony of reading the book. It got to be quite funny, actually - and not only because the film was probably a huge part of my motivation for picking up the novel in the first place. Apparently, Eco has quite the reputation for being an unreadable author, especially for his book Foucault's Pendulum.
Luckily, however, I had at least three big motivators for picking up this novel and getting to the end of it: 1) the magnificent film, 2) the lovely teacher-student bond, 3) the truly great lecture on the postmodern elements of the book by Albert Meier.
As a result, I think I got about half-way through the novel, before I began to feel the strain of ploughing through all the descriptions - and then it wasn't too difficult to keep going, since the plot had already begun unravelling. But speaking of plot ...
