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The problem of Eco is that he does not have a soul.
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I don't know much about him. Maybe if he did his own translations he would come across better, but I doubt it.
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"so you mostly just read genre fiction then?"
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The thing is, I doubt that there is a single volume to be found on the LF shelves that I cannot classify to a particular genre (probably more than one) just like every other book. It's a useless category. I'm not saying every book on those LF shelves is appalling. Certainly there are many old classics that end up there which are very good, but I could find a more proper category for them. But it's the contemporary books which end up there which are generally dismal and are continually the butt of jokes.
At any rate, I leave you to find a good book. We've hashed this one around long enough, and I won't be checking the thread again.