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Umberto Eco dead?
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Umberto Eco dead?
February 19, 2016 at 9:18 pm
I'm not posting any links, since some sources say, it's an elaborate hoax, while others claim, he really passed.

Would be a pity. I don't know, how popular he was/is in America, but he was/is one of my favorite authors. I've read almost all of his work. Fiction and non fiction.
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RE: Umberto Eco dead?
February 19, 2016 at 9:58 pm
New York Times, BBC, The Guardian and even wiki updated.

He died.
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RE: Umberto Eco dead?
February 19, 2016 at 10:03 pm
(February 19, 2016 at 9:18 pm)abaris Wrote: I'm not posting any links, since some sources say, it's an elaborate hoax, while others claim, he really passed.

Would be a pity. I don't know, how popular he was/is in America, but he was/is one of my favorite authors. I've read almost all of his work. Fiction and non fiction.

Unfortunately it's true.  Americans, me included, are not good about reading books in translation.  But Eco is an exception, at least for me. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35620368
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RE: Umberto Eco dead?
February 19, 2016 at 10:27 pm
Harper Lee too . . .
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RE: Umberto Eco dead?
February 19, 2016 at 10:57 pm
Another loss of a great person! I got The History of Beauty and On Ugliness together, even though they aren't related books, as a gift a few years back, and both are great reads. I read the name of the Rose a long long time ago as well, and have at least one other of his books,, the recent Year Zero, on my wish list. He was a great author of our time, and a beautiful thinker as well.

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RE: Umberto Eco dead?
February 19, 2016 at 11:01 pm
(February 19, 2016 at 10:27 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Harper Lee too . . .

So she did.  I love To Kill a Mocking Bird, but that was really the one book wasn't it?  And though I think it was dementia, I'm not thrilled with the late release of her "second" book.
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February 19, 2016 at 11:37 pm
(February 19, 2016 at 11:01 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
(February 19, 2016 at 10:27 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Harper Lee too . . .

So she did.  I love To Kill a Mocking Bird, but that was really the one book wasn't it?  And though I think it was dementia, I'm not thrilled with the late release of her "second" book.

Is that mere wishful thinking or do you have good reason to think so?
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RE: Umberto Eco dead?
February 20, 2016 at 12:53 am
Ah what a pity!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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February 20, 2016 at 1:10 am (This post was last modified: February 20, 2016 at 1:11 am by Jenny A.)
(February 19, 2016 at 11:37 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:
(February 19, 2016 at 11:01 pm)Jenny A Wrote: So she did.  I love To Kill a Mocking Bird, but that was really the one book wasn't it?  And though I think it was dementia, I'm not thrilled with the late release of her "second" book.

Is that mere wishful thinking or do you have good reason to think so?

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-h...-watchman/ And I wouldn't wish dementia on anyone.
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RE: Umberto Eco dead?
February 20, 2016 at 5:13 am
A truly great author.
Another great person dies in 2016. Sad
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