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... Cities bu Italo Calvino
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
The Little Country by Charles De Lint
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
*takes a deep breath*
New:
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
Dracula by Bram Stok ... The island of the day before by Eco. Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. Gave up on it, as per other Eco novels. An Instance of the Fingerpost
The Island of the Day Before
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
The Story of an African Farm The island of the day before by Umberto Eco. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. On my TBR pile. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco ... Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
5. The Library of Shadows by Mikkel Birkegaard
6. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
7. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
8. The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martínez
9. I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti
10. In the Miso Soup by ... >7 The only book I've read in this list is The Island of the Day Before and I liked it very much. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana was not as good as the other books by Eco I read.
I have started Ulysses a couple of time, but I was so convinced from the start that I wouldn't be able to ... ... sits on a shelf in sight of where I am typing this, next to The Road to Wellville, Labyrinths, Black Swan Green and The Island of the Day Before... not bad company. For some reason my library is clamoring for the return of The Island of the Day Before so i will comply later this morning..those library ladies do get huffy at times! anyway, i started Three Minutes on Love by Roccie Hill....i usually avoid any book that purports nostalgia for the 1960s...e ... The Island of The Day Before is still in sight..
>77 Richard...i have no problem with memory loss..as long as it's someone else's memory.... Not so much Fantasy..as Fantastical...The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco.....definitely in the realm of the Fantastic....but it's Eco..and for his language alone he gets my undying respect.. I really liked The Island of the Day Before.....glad you are enjoying it, jdthloue. Still reading The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco..loving every sentence.....and started Mapp and Lucia by E F Benson....both of these for Group Reads on SHELFARI... Last evening i started The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco...for a group read on SHELFARI....knowing that Eco's books demand a certain concentration..i may be a monogamous reader for a bit... Last evening i started The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco...for a group read on SHELFARI....knowing that Eco's books demand a certain concentration..i may be a monogamous reader for a bit... ... as they are so intricate there are bound to be things that would take a second outing to appreciate. Perhaps, also by Eco, is the Island of the Day before, which while not as complex as the other one I have mentioned, is such a dreamy and beautifully written book that it can be ... I am reading The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. I read The Name of the Rose last year and I loved it. I really enjoy Eco's style of writing. Just a shot...
The Island of the Day Before?
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Kiss Me Deadly by Mickey Spillane
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ... Special Cases* by Nathan Englander
2. knots* by Nuruddin Farah
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns* by Khaled Hosseini
4. The Island of the Day Before* by Umberto Eco
5. The Storrington Papers* by Dorothy Eden
6. Gad's Hall and The Haunting of Gad's Hall* by Norah Lofts
7. Prisoner ... ... I read a long time ago and vaguely remember being a bit disappointed after all the hype about it and I had to give up on The Island Of The Day Before. The Inheritance of Loss and Half a Yellow Sun are both in my tbr's too but not in my photoed stack.
I'm only a occassional reader of ... ... .
Well, I only read him in Italian... good enough for me.
Only one of his books left me more indifferent than pleased: The island of the day before.
My fave--The mysterious flame of Queen Loana; but for that one, to understand fully what I adore, one would have to have shared his ... ... Power by Tariq Ali
Chicago: A Novel by Alaa Al Aswany
Happy Families: Stories by Carlos Fuentes
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Tunnel Book, gy Joan Sommers
Dawn of a To-Morrow, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The island of the day before, by Umberto Eco
Day of the Dead and other mortal reflections, by F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Break of Day, by Colette When Three Men in a Boat reached The Island of the Day Before After Dark, they saw Sweet Starfire reflected likeA Fire Upon the Deep. On the Beach they found The Girl with the Pearl Earring: a Gift From the Sea. As they dined upon Cod under The Mango Tree, she asked,"Are you Hap ... The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco ... of my all-time favorite authors. His writing is so fascinating. I've read Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose, The Island of the Day Before, and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Each of the books is complexly layered, historically interesting and quite varied. He is one of ... I loved The Name of the Rose in book and movie form, but Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before are dreck. Actually, I've never even finished The Island - it just gradually filtered out of my reading pile. ... it!) whether or not he was the first with Foucault's Pendulum.
The one book of his I never was able to get through was The Island of the Day Before. I could not make sense of that book, but that was when it came out. I'm more used to cunning authors now!
Oh, heavens, Mary! A reading ... I agree deebee1. There could have been more adventure, or action of some form in The Island of the Day Before Another fiction of the same theme - The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, although a bit ho-hum for me... ... related to the Glass family of the other short stories.
The only book I deliberately didn't finish was Umberto Eco's Island of the Day Before much as I enjoyed The Name of the Rose and his short works. I got resentful that I was stuck on a ship with a character who was apparently alone ... ... but I initially heard it as an audiobook with a decent reader- otherwise I doubt I would have finished it. Same for The Island of the Day Before- I had tried reading it several times, couldn't get into it, tried it as an audiobook and flew along. Ditto for Hunchback of NotreDame, Catc ... Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco ... behind the Franciscans/Fraticelli/Spirituals, how interesting can the book be?
The one Eco book I had trouble with was The Island of the Day Before and once I switched to audiobook, I really enjoyed it, and it stuck with me in unexpected ways. Haven't read The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loa ... 16. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
I was tragically disappointed. I loved The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, but this book was tedious. Nevertheless, I resolve to stay optimistic when I approach the next book of his when I decide to read one. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. I've been working through this one for a while now. I didn't like it as much as Foucault's Pendulum, and the intricacies I enjoyed in that book were tedious here. For me, it wasn't enjoyable enough, considering the time it took to read it. It's ... ... Pacific by James A. Michener
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
The island of the day before by Umberto Eco
The thin red line by James Jones
Battle cry by Leon Uris
The Caine mutiny a novel of World War II by Herma ... ... Eco is really touch and go for me. Foucault's Pendulum didn't thrill me, but at least I could digest it at a clip. Island of the Day Before however I thought was an outstanding bit of imagination, taking his views on literature ("books talking to other books") and then spinning it into ... The Island of the Day Before is a wonderful book. Do not hesitate to check it out. I agree though that The Name of the Rose is indeed a rough one to tackle. I had to take it in small doses and I agree with the posters above who mentioned that watching the movie first definitely helps. I ... ... of the fiasco in The Name of the Rose could have been Baudolino buy the description I vaguely remembered.
I also have The Island of the day before which I haven't quite built up a willingness to read yet. Anyone like Umberto Eco? I have The Island of the Day Before in TBR pile. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco ... in Mecca : an American woman's struggle for the soul of Islam by Asra Nomani
The Noel Coward Diaries by Noel Coward
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett 16. Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? : Trusting God with a Hope Deferred by Carolyn McCulley *****
17. I Heard That Song Before: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark ****
18. Mayflower : a Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
19. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
20. ... Heroines: Demigoddess, prima dona,movie star
The Courage to be Rich
Achilles: His Armour
The Art of War
Breakfast at the Victory ... Chesterton (after reading The Man Who Was Thursday)
Old Filth by Jane Gardam (after reading God on the Rocks)
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco (after reading Foucault's Pendulum)
Subject:
Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafes of Vienna, Budapest ... This is a tough one ...
The island of the day before by Umberto Eco
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
The Happy Island by Dawn Powell
Pages from a Cold Island by Frederick Exley I'd not heard great things about either Baudolino or The Island of the Day Before. Which is a real shame because, like jtron and juv3nal, I loved both The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. The former, I've always thought, is a near-perfect novel. Like Shakespeare, it functions as ... Umberto Eco. I read The Name of the Rose in one ass-numbing sitting, and I loved Foucault's Pendulum, but The Island Of The Day Before left me cold and I abandoned it not one-fifth through. How's Baudolino measure up? ... theme through the juxtaposition of detective thriller and medieval period fiction genres. Both are magnificent novels.
The Island of the Day Before is somewhat less satisfying, though original in its construction. I kept wondering what the book was really about it a way that I didn't while ... ... There is a very good intro to the subject at http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html.
I bought The Island of the Day Before and sat down with great anticipation and enthusiasm only to find myself grinding to a halt around page 200. I have not had the courage to buy B ... ... Sea by Jules Verne
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
More Contemporary
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
I'm short on female charactors other than the Robin Hobb ship books. ... although I have never and never would watch one of her shows.
I might try Foucault's Pendulum sometime but I died on The Island of the Day Before.
jargoneer
That's an interesting point re-Rose. I'm sure you are right. A bit of back-up reading would improve my reading of it. Good to see some action on this group at last! A couple of weeks ago I picked up a hardback of L'isola del giorno prima by Umberto Eco. I think I now have all of Eco's works in the original Italian. Haven't tried to read one yet though...
... Flame frustrating to the point of throwing the book on the wall, and Baudolino was a yawn for me. My favorit Eco book is The Island of the Day Before. Absolutely love that story. ... some just plain trash fiction that makes feel good when I need a pick-me-up. Right now, I'm rereading Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before. Not an easy book to read, but totally fascinating. ... some just plain trash fiction that makes feel good when I need a pick-me-up. Right now, I'm rereading Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before. Not an easy book to read, but totally fascinating. ... some just plain trash fiction that makes feel good when I need a pick-me-up. Right now, I'm rereading Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before. Not an easy book to read, but totally fascinating. I just thought of a title I'd like to put in this category (sort of thinking out loud here, as it were). Eco's The Island of the Day Before has that surreal, improbable quality to it. I haven't read The Name of the Rose, but I am reading Eco's The Island of The Day Before. I'd recommend it.
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