July 2004

After reading the Da Vinci code I longed back to the wonderful books of Umberto Eco, and I still had "The Island of the Day Before" unread on my bookshelf. A great book again; this one is placed in the 17th century where an Italian noble finds himself on an abandoned ship near the "antipodal meridian," or the international date line.

On the way back from Washington after our holiday in Miami I read a well-known book: The Da Vinci Code.

The story has many unexpected twists, and it was a pleasure to read. It reminded me a lot of "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, an undeniably brilliant book. It's probably not fair to compare the two books: the Da Vinci code is a novel, a thriller, while Foucault's Pendulum is much deeper and broader. Still, an enjoyable read and very addicting: I couldn't stop reading until I finished it.