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Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout
BTW - and this is the wrong thread - but if anyone felt like me "nice plot, shame about the Sun Reader prose", try Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. I am reading it at the moment (thanks for the tip, Lloyd) and it is eminently more satisfying to read something that is beautifully written, with strong, believable characters.
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I second Foucault's Pendulum. I read that book while traveling around Europe, which made it even better. I specifically went to see the actual (recreation) pendulum at the Pantheon in Paris. I haven't read DaVinci Code, (maybe I should just see the movie
) but I feel that Foucault's Pendulum is the same idea except written ten years earlier and much more intellectual. It references so many historical facts in passing that I didn't understand at all. It's more about the
idea of a conspiracy than the actual conspiracy itself. Great stuff, with a great ending. I'm currently slowly reading Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' per my brother's suggestion.