The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

Having read it

★★★☆☆

Well written with plenty of moments and good perspectives of the time and world the characters and story inhabit, but it is lengthy and plodded along (quite) a few times making it a bit of a challenge and, to be honest, quite skippable of which I did a few time when it went a-bit-on-and-on; five out of five for storytelling, three out of five for readability!

A good passage

For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called ‘kosmos,’ that is to say ornate, since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members