When I started reading, the first few chapters made me rethink. Should I DNF this book and move forward with other books. But then again I checked some Reddit posts saying it’s a good book. Which I wouldn’t deny.
I continued, the book was engrossing. And then it was like how the lines run through in an ECG/EKG of a dying person. So many up and downs only for it to fall into a flat line. As in the ending was just flat. Don’t take me wrong, the book when it was interesting, I didn’t even want to put it down. And then there are chapters you just wonder what’s the purpose of this chapter. Why am I reading this? What’s the significance of this chapter to the main plot? Maybe i misunderstood those chapters.
Umberto Eco did a great job of connecting the dots and lines. It was like reading the history of all these cults through the trio’s own mind. The setting up of the plot was a bit tedious to read though. As someone in this subreddit mentioned before it felt like a prologue. Was the end worth it? >! Personally, No. All these setup for what? !< Most of y’all might beg to differ and it’s understandable.
Most of the time the book kind of made it hard for to read with lots of the historical references , French sentences, Latin Sentences and historical/occult related words in general. Wish the book I read had an index for the historical and occult reference texts. And it was kind of annoying that I had to use Google a lot to translate the foreign languages and find the definition of certain terms as well.
The book was good. Not bad. Readable with some effort put into it for me. Will I reread it again? FUCK NO.
One thing for sure is Eco’s dig at the so called conspiracy theorists and the book felt like a parody at the end by calling the theorists out.
by zzuhruf