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Title: Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0156913216 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: May, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71
Rating: 1
Summary: Reader from Israel
Comment: Well this was my third book by Mr. Eco and dthe continue to get worse. The Rose was excellent and made me hungry for more but after the Pendulum and this Hyper-Realty bit I'm going to have to call it quits. The author has the ability t oput together a great novel such as the Rose, I wish it were mine, but the other stuff is just not happening.
Rating: 2
Summary: Amorphous Lump o' Eco
Comment: Umberto Eco is clearly a genius - his fictional works testify to that. I assume his reputation as a semiologist is well earned (since I know little about the subject beyond what Walker Percy digested).
Unfortunately, I found "Travels in Hyperreality" to be a hastily pasted collection of observations and commentary that is not really worthy of Eco's growing portfolio. The book was sometimes interesting, but dry and tasteless. I thought the whole lot of it could be encapsulated in Eco's strange observations concerning "the wearing of blue jeans." That is, if you're really, really, really into Eco and want to soak up everything he says, then this book will not disappoint. If, on the other hand, you have limited time on your hands, then Eco's fictional works, or "Search for the Perfect Language," are far better temporal investments.
Perhaps I didn't get it, or perhaps it was a mistake reading much of it in a bar in Santa Clara, but I would assert that this is only a book for the Eco purist.
Rating: 4
Summary: Does Disney Own The Planet?
Comment: A deliriously funny trip through the mad places the earth's inhabitants call home. Eco skewers like "kitsch-ka-bob" the artificial pseudo paradises we have created with all our so-called modern conveniences. What have we turned our cities into, by the way? Do we really understand art?
If you've ever driven through rural Arkansas or Texas and wanted to capture with words the seemingly inexplicable, paradoxical sights along the way, it's been done for you and can be enjoyed in these side-splitting pages.
Lots of fun.
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Title: Misreadings by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0156607522 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) by Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser ISBN: 0472065211 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.80 |
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Title: How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco, Diane Sterling, William Weaver ISBN: 015600125X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0156007517 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0674810511 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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