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Originally Posted by Victoria
These aren’t classics, and they’re very highly rated. However I found The Name of the Rose and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tedious and pretentious, back when I read them. I always suspected that many of my friends, who absolutely idolized them, hadn’t actually read them. 
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I found
Zen interesting, but jump-off-a-bridge depressing at the end. I think perhaps the book's popularity was as a product of it's era, not exactly a timeless classic.