Read enough genre fiction? Why not try Literature?

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Read enough genre fiction? Why not try Literature?

CommonShore: Jun 6, 2014; A true renaissance man

PeterWeller posted:

Read Baudolino and The Island of the Day Before.

These are both very good and I think they'll appeal to genre fiction readers too.

Hm most of Eco's books seem to map onto one popular genre in awkward but fun ways... The Name of the Rose is a detective story, Foucault's Pendulum is something of a spy thriller, Baudolino is a fantasy adventure, and The Island of the Day Before is science fiction with sixteenth-century science. I'm not sure what I'd call The Mysterious Flame other than my least-favourite Eco novel.

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