On The Shelf
Saturday, June 11, 2005
If you were a fan of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, you may want to pick up his new novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. In the novel, "Bodoni, who shares his name with the late-18th-century typographer, is an antiquarian book dealer who has just lost all memory of his existence, except for his reading."
"After earlier novels such as Fight Club and Diary, it doesn't seem likely that anyone would pick up a book by Chuck Palahniuk incautiously, but even so the incautious should be warned. This most recent novel is definitely not for the faint-hearted." Palahniuk's latest is titled, Haunted, and is actually made up of several short stories.
"It is one of the world's most baffling puzzles, the bane of professional cryptologists and amateur sleuths who have spent 15 years trying to solve it." The puzzle is actually a sculpture known as Kryptos, and it may appear in Dan Brown's forthcoming novel, tentatively titled The Solomon Key.
The Boston Globe has a review of Robin Cook's latest, Marker. According to the article, "Marker is a fun page-turner, and a perfect airplane novel."
