has a fairly large brain. Still, I can't help wishing he dedicated more of the digressions to philosophy than history (or rather than history in particular, history that doesn't have to do with Christianity). Name Of the Rose has been just as good as I expected, but before reading it, I thought of picking up Baudolino, and that might have been the better pick, since I've heard it has a heftier touch of the imaginative about it. I misunderstood the topic a little bit before picking it up--not that is hasn't been fantastic so far (I'm about 200 pages in). Still, it's been very informative so far, and I've never before been convinced that Christianity and Western Europe were quite so poor a match as I am now; not to mention that Eco reads fairly well despite translation. There's even a character based on Borges, even if, for some reason, that character happens to be a close minded, fundamentalist Christian. At the very least, he has the voice of a prophet.
I originally decided to pick up Name Of the Rose (after putting it off for years) after hearing Delany discuss Eco in 1984.
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