Eco and the Funnymen

[Bekah]

At 1:02 AM -0400 7/8/05, Henry Musikar wrote:
>Maybe I'm too lazy, or maybe I don't really need the exercise, but this new
>Eco novel sounds typically upper-chakra to me.  I appreciated Eco's work in
>semiotics years before his first emperor's new clothes novel, but I sure
>enjoyed Roland Bathes a hell of lot more. Yes, enjoyed.  Eco's novels remind
>me of the women who have been recommended to me as "interesting."


I've read Eco;  I loved The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum 
was even better.   But then something happened and Eco wasn't fun 
anymore.  His novels became work to get through.  The Island of the 
Day Before was an overwritten exercise in semiotics.  Baudolino was 
better but it seemed that Eco had become more involved in the point 
he was trying to make than the story, and the humor was there but it 
seemed a bit less than fresh.  Now I have The Mysterious Flame of 
Queen Leona coming from Amazon and I'll read it.  Once probably.  It 
won't be worth the three times I've given to FP or even 2 to Name of 
the Rose.  I'm expecting another Island I suppose,  hopefully 
somewhat better.

I've read some of his non-fiction too and for some reason,  that's 
appearing more and more inviting.


Bek
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