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Jan 04, 2019DominiqueRossier rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Boring, repetitive, and heavy… Very disappointing.
Dec 12, 2018
Eco seems to be following a trend I've noticed in some of my other favourite authors: as they get older, the books get shorter and the vision more focused. If you don't want to read a book with a less than likeable narrator, steer clear…
May 08, 2018
I picked up the book because it was on display in the "customer favourites area". I only made it to page 13 where the narrator was disgustingly bashing his third religion/country. It's hateful. Maybe it gets better, but you have to slog…
Jul 20, 2017SCL_Justin rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Reading Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery The main characters (hard to call them protagonists what with their hateful ideologies) of Eco's The Prague Cemetery are a priest and a forger who makes his living making documents to…
Dec 01, 2015
I was going to read this but decided not to after reading previous comments, more nays than yays in other words.
Dec 03, 2014rab1953 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Eco here creates one of the most repellant protagonists that I have read, and puts him on display for examination. The thing that is worse is that, while his character, Simonini, is a fictional creation, the rest of the characters in the…
DianneMorin
Aug 08, 2013DianneMorin rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Not one of Eco's best. Too many historical references in too many countries to keep the reader on track. I struggled to finish this book.
yuriytrach
May 21, 2013
I just read a book The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco I took from Richmond Hill Library. Under disguise of fiction story told by a person who hates Jews, book inspires hatred to Jewish nation. I am ashamed to find anti-Semitic book on…
Dec 24, 2012diesellibrarian rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
There is little doubt that this book is a masterpiece of modern literature - but it is certainly distasteful in parts to the modern reader. It is shot through with xenophobia and especially an unvarnished antisemitism that may have been…
Nov 05, 2012Cryptonomicon rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
excellent historical conspiracy theory involving actual historical figures (almost all characters were real people) and the fictional (?) origins of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Real page-turner.
deborah2252
May 29, 2012
Actually I stopped at page 82. This book is hideous. The narrator is hideous. The illustrations are hideous. The settings are hideous. The dialog is hideous. I really was hopeful for all the Illuminati stuffl but I just couldn't take…
machinedog
Apr 25, 2012
He's gone crazy. This is pure hate mongering complete with Nazi cartoons.