Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum

I would give the book the following subheading: Reality strikes back. Erudite men find an incomplete manuscript and start playing, then rearranging historical facts to match their theories. These theories are related to an area covered with mystical fog, the world of the templars. The game is gripping...

It becomes serious when characters start to hint to their "secret" knowledge to people who need exactly such a little solution to complete the world vision they believe in. Fiction that became reality becomes also logic, and how can one confess a secret that doesn't exist? The end is eerie.

Interesting: The figure of the intellectual Sam Spade - namely a sort of knowledge detective is worthy of a genius, I'd love to be it, if I could.

Difficulties: If you wish to understand the novel 100%, be prepared to use up more hours looking up terms in a specialised templar and mystic dictionary. Homunculuses are flying around, and that's only the easyest of all....