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It's called a Foucault's Pendulum. They have a beautiful one at the California ... To me, it was the feeling I get after reading a very good book. It is the pendulum's lethargic buildup of suspense, ...

October has come and gone, and The Verge Book Club has moved on to Inverted ... we invite you to take a moment to reflect on Foucault’s Pendulum.Join our own Laura June, Adi Robertson, and ...

Foucault got eternal fame by having a pendulum named after him, which later became the title of a mind-bending book by Umberto Eco you probably tried to read in college before turning to the much ...

Ebooks are apparently lousy with typos Though I’ve only had the Kindle for three weeks, I’ve noticed that the book I’ve been reading, Foucault’s Pendulum, has many typos. This isn’t an ...

Works titled “On Beauty” (2004) and “On Ugliness” (2007) still poured out of him, between book tours and interviews. In addition to “The Name of the Rose” and “Foucault’s Pendulum ...

So I've been reading Foucault's Pendulum and I've come up with a couple ... Related to #1: If you had to compare Umberto Eco (the author of the book) to any one of the characters, who would ...

Foucault s Pendulum is plain old nuts. And it s worth reminding ourselves that the film of the Name of the Rose was nowhere near what the book was. Eco s Island of the Day Before might ...

It is a simple thing, but we breeze through so many great things in our lives -- a museum exhibit, a nice landscape on the way to work, or that severely dog-eared library book. That day, the ...

and The Verge Book Club has moved on to Inverted World. Before you get too enthralled in Christopher Priest's classic, however, we invite you to take a moment to reflect on Foucault's Pendulum.