Authors and Books Enquiries

[saliotthomas]

Information on autors or books are often very dry and it's hard to get a feel of what they really are through google,Wikipedia or amazon.
So before purchasing the work,it is nice to have an advice from readers.

Does David Hare is known to any of you?Indu Sundaresan ?

Thanks

[saliotthomas]

I just got the mysterious flame of queen loana by umberto Eco,any of you heard of it?
Ant this writer Gail Tsukiyama?

thanks

[Bjorn]

I just got the mysterious flame of queen loana by umberto Eco,any of you heard of it?
Heard of it, read it, lov... liked it a lot. Not my favourite Eco, but anything he's written is well worth reading, and Queen Loana is especially fun for those of us who tend to take literature a little too seriously... :D It's essentially an attempt to reconstruct a forgotten identity based on the books he's read. Though I'd recommend reading Foucault's Pendulum first; both books contain fictionalised versions of Eco's own life, and Queen Loana probably makes more sense if you've read that one (and a basic knowledge of 1940s Italy probably helps too).

[saliotthomas]

Thanks Beer good.I read the Foucault's Pendulum first so.I like the name of the rose a lot.My brother turned me away from pendulum a few year back,but it's time i give it a go.