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We read Name of the Rose in my 10th grade English class and it was a tome that challenged us all for the couple of weeks that we pored over it. I love that book
by jplahn 11y ago
We read Name of the Rose in my 10th grade English class and it was a tome that challenged us all for the couple of weeks that we pored over it. I love that book. I've read it one other time since then and it's amazing the number of layers that continue to appear when you read it a second (and, presumably, a third) time. When you spend so much time dissecting somebody's work, you develop a sort of relationship with them, one that forms easily when you have a teacher that distills a deep appreciation for the work you're knee deep in trying to understand.
Mr. Eco you will be missed.
- schoen 11y agoI had kind of that experience with the Aeneid, and my friend had kind of that experience with the Divine Comedy. There's a lot of it out there to be had when people are lucky enough to get into the right situation with the right people!
- anigbrowl 11y agoAfter the 10th or 11th reading of Rose I had internalized the book well enough that I wasn't finding anything new and could recall whole pages of it from memory, but I keep rereading it every year or so because of the sheer sensual pleasure it evokes. I must be up to about 25 readings now and I was just thinking it was time for another.