Connections

[perlmonger]

Do you ever feel an almost overwhelming urge to read another book, like right now, prompted by the one you’re currently reading? It’s happened to me twice in as many days, rereading The Name of the Rose.

The first hit was for The Book of the Night, which makes some sense with Church and Abbey, and with its temporal split between the end of the 10^th Century and the end of the 20^th nicely bracketing the setting of the Eco. The second, last night, was for Rats and Gargoyles. So I guess I’m on a heading either for Magick, or for general Gothick. Or both.

I’m thoroughly enjoying my second outing with the Eco, BTW; picking up a whole lot more of the Mediæval Church politics that I didn’t really take in first time round. Not enough spare hours in the day for reading, damnit.

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[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Name of the Rose gave me that special feeling of wishing I knew more about it (modern criticism and whatnot in this case) so I’d get more of the jokes.