Anyone read Eco's "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana"?

[Orrex]

I want to gripe about something.

[EVDebs]

1. No, but his Foucault's Pendulum was tedious but in the end rewarding

I'm NOT a fan of 'magical realism'. Good ole dogshit reality and nonfiction are bad enough.

[matt819]

2. I read it - gripe away (nt)

[Orrex]

3. Okay! SPOILERS

:rant:

Holy shit!

Hundreds of pages of narcissistic reflection on 60-year-old Italian fascist propaganda, followed by a few chapters of lengthy death-bed hallucination with no payoff?

I'm a great fan of Eco--I've read all of his novels and many of his essays, but this is just crap.

"It's all a dream" is the modern formulation of deus ex machina, and it's inexcusable.

Whew.

Thanks for listening!