Eco masterfully paints the culture and the ethos of the 14th century monastery, but I believe that the motivation behind this murder mystery is weak at best. That so many deaths might result from a desire to keep the world from laughing is laughable. When confronted with his evil in the final 'pages' of the book, the antagonist expands the evil by burning down his beloved library.

I've loved everything I've read of Eco's including this, but I don't buy the motivation.

Not really. There are better stories.

Good.

It was OK. It was not as much the reader as the writer, but I lost who was who. I listen to books a good deal and this is not usually a problem.

No. It was finished.

They made a movie of this book. Start with the movie...

One of the best as far as quality and storyline

The language and complexity of thought.

William by far

No- but it did make me think... A LOT!

This isn't necessarily the book to listen to if you are looking for the most thrilling book that you've ever read, but it has a brilliant story-line and some wonderful themes. The reader has the PERFECT voice, in my opinion, for this work.

Took me a long time to finish this one because I started it one time and couldn't get interested so stopped and took me a few months to come back around to it. but... it was better than I thought the first time. It's set in a monastery a few hundred years in the past. Sort of like Sherlock Holmes as a monk solving crimes. It's very subtle and sometimes slow but well written and very well read.