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- From: rhogan@phakt.usc.edu (Ron Hogan)
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- Subject: Book recommendations was re:foucault
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:30:02 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner) recommends these books:
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- >Holy Blood, Holy Grail
- >and
- >Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
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- >These are fascinating books. The first is supposed to be non-fiction,
- >but who can tell (it was written in part by a Frenchman after all).
- >The second is fiction but is outstanding. Umberto Eco (or his
- >translator) is el primo.
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- Yeah, those crazy Frenchmen, always making things up...this is sarcasm, btw.
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- As for Foucault's Pendulum, it's okay, but Robert Anton Wilson wrote
- it much better ten years before as MASKS OF THE ILLUMINATI. It's shorter,
- better paced, less turgid and the characters are much more compelling--
- of course, they are also Albert Einstein, James Joyce, and Al Crowley.
-
- Ron Hogan
- lee harvey oswald died for your sins
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