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Books-----"The Name of the Rose" - Umberto Eco"Foucault's Pendulum" - Umberto Eco"Demons" - Fyodor Dostoevsky"Hopscotch" - Julio Cortazar"Good Omens" - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett"Jonathan Strange and Mr.
You'd rather fancy being kidnapped by Umberto Eco.
So I've decided to just tell people that I'm a writer and leave the heavy work of actually crafting fine prose to Umberto Eco.
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Umberto Eco, Anyone?
So from this book bargain rack I pick up a cheap paperback - essays
on Literature (with a capital "L") by Umberto Eco.Mr Eco in
parts I love and in parts I .
"We like lists because we don't want to die" (Eco)
From Der Spiegel:"Umberto Eco: The list is the origin of culture.
Bomber
[I can heartily recommend the cafe there; despite being
fry-it-to-death English food, it also amusingly has Italian staff
straight from central casting.] I also had the foresight to bring
two good books [Umberto Eco - Serendipity and Jeanette Winterson -
Sexing The Cherry], which stopped me being
To you, is abortion an option in case of an unwanted accidental pregnancy?
Eco, Umberto. "The Limits of Interpretation" Indiana
University Press, 1990Eco, Umberto, Rorty, Richard, et al.
The Occult Fringe
"Umberto Eco scares the pants off of me. That book, Foucalt's
Pendulem kept me from starting my own cult." But Signor Eco would
WANT more Diabolicals! They're the breeding ground for the world's
Dan Browns, after all, and Eco gets royalties for materials
published by his creations.
What books are your dealbreakers?
I'd like to think that I'm reasonably well read -
but I find a Michael Criton novel (which seems to be lumped into
the 'blockbuster' bin) as enjoyable as Sabastian Faulkes or Umberto
Eco (who tend to be classified as 'literature').
The Swastika: Evil Symbol of Hate, or Ancient Symbol of Power?
I went and saw Umberto Eco speak in Bologna at the
university there.
