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Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
2.0
The 2 star rating is only for the abridged audiobook edition of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and shouldn't be considered a rating of the entire unabridged book.
There is only a single English language audiobook of Foucault's Pendulum and unfortunately it is an abridged edition that lasts about 6 & 1/2 hours which is probably only a third of the entire book. As it is a recording from 1995 that was originally released on cassette tapes there is also a lot of ambient tape hiss/background noise that has not been removed even in current digital download editions that use this same recording by actor Tim Curry.
Due to the abridgement of the text it is very difficult to follow the plot of the book aside from a basic theme of various conspiracy theories being recycled by various characters either for fun or profit. The reading by Tim Curry is surprisingly very flat and straightforward without any particular enthusiasm.
There is only a single English language audiobook of Foucault's Pendulum and unfortunately it is an abridged edition that lasts about 6 & 1/2 hours which is probably only a third of the entire book. As it is a recording from 1995 that was originally released on cassette tapes there is also a lot of ambient tape hiss/background noise that has not been removed even in current digital download editions that use this same recording by actor Tim Curry.
Due to the abridgement of the text it is very difficult to follow the plot of the book aside from a basic theme of various conspiracy theories being recycled by various characters either for fun or profit. The reading by Tim Curry is surprisingly very flat and straightforward without any particular enthusiasm.