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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 2848334, member: 82194&quot;]<i>The Name of the Rose</i> is my all time favorite book and one of the few I have read multiple times. His writing is complex and you do have to &quot;read&quot; the book. The first time I read it I didn&#039;t appreciate what a fine work it is but by the third reading it had become evident that I loved it.&nbsp; To date the <i>hardest</i> read for me has been the author Roberto Bolaño. I could barely get through his opus <i>2666 </i>and it probably deserves another read - if you tackle him start with <i>The Savage Detectives</i></p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;ve digressed, so back to Eco.&nbsp; I came up with a first American edition of <i>The Name of The Rose</i>, back in 2003/2004 or so and I had the brilliant idea of sending it to Eco at The University of Bologna where he was a professor of Semiotics. I double boxed the book with the inner box being already addressed back to myself and included a few international reply coupons so he would incur no postage charge upon return.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 months - 6 months - a year passed and I&#039;ve written off the book as being pilfered.&nbsp; One day, I received a box in the mail from Italy. &quot;What the heck is this?&quot;, I asked myself. &quot;My book!!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/Eco_Rose.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Three years had passed since I originally posted the book to Eco and today it is one of my prized possessions. A year or two after this I read an article in The New York Times about how Eco had some 50,000 books in his apartment and that every few years he had to undertake a major organization of his collection since in the interim of these cleanings piles and piles of books would appear. I finally had figured out what had happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>This short sub-titled vid is worth a watch:</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]N1H4nzl7Hrc[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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