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That's one of my all-time favourite books. Crikey though, Eco was a very clever man and difficult to keep up with.

I've just remembered another book that I didn't finish. It's called My Secret Life (A Memoir) and is the life story of a well to do, man about town in late Victorian England. The blurb on the back said that it rivalled Dickens in exposing the harsh realities of life for the poor during that...

Honestly? Probably not.

Yes. It was very hard work.

Likewise. It's at least 200 pages too long as a novel and 400 pages too long as a manifesto for free market capitalism. Can I suggest you give Hayek's 'Road to Serfdom' a go instead? Quite easy to dip in and out of. Also suggest Roger Scruton's books. I suspect you will find him a little too...

I found Tolkien's books of varying degrees of interest and readability. The Hobbit starts off as a pure children's story although he changes the style to more like LotR partway through the book, LotR is just about manageable but there are chapters and chapters of background info that make the...

Likewise. I see it as a personal failure and even when the book has been tosh (A Little Life) or v.difficult to read (Brief History of Seven Killings) I've soldiered on but I have given up on a fair few. A few that come to mind: Ulysses. I think I've tried a dozen times and each time got no...