I was disappointed by the evil ending of The Name of the Rose, and swore off Eco's novels after reading Foucault's Pendulum wihich also endes catastrophically.
Did any of you read other Eco novels (the Isle of the Day Before, Baudolino....) that would not leave me such a bitter taste when I've finished them?
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Re: Do all Umberto Ecovels end badly?
I've read Baudolino and enjoyed it, but as I recall it does not have a particularly pleasant ending. Then again I enjoyed The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum (not concerned so much about the endings) -- I'm not the one to ask.
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I've read the two mentioned plus The Island of the Day Before. Of the former, I can't really remember the details of how they ended. Of the latter, I remember enjoying it, but I left it on a train with about 50 pages to go and wasn't bothered enough to find out what happened at the end. I remember more about leaving the book on the train than I do about the book itself.
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I couldn't finish Foucault's Pendulum. Too dense. I read the Isle of the day before and can't remember a single thing about it. I read Name of the Rose and can only remember the movie (not including the ending).
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I hate that arsehole annaud, but HIS ending was a lot more palatable (if not likely) than Eco's (basically, Eco's ending is the Triumph of Bernard Gui with the Rose getting burned at the stake with the other heretics)
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