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The dim boundary between the imaginary and the real is Eco's home terrain...He is a foxy gamesman, using enchanted woods as a flexible image for narrative texts, and mustering a playful array of allusions from The Three Musketeers to the Rocky Horror Picture Show . -- Robert Taylor Boston Globe

�This� dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and narrative theory into intellectual entertainment. -- John O'Reilly Independent Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous...The literary examples Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane. His text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of surprising juxtapositions. Reading �these chapters� is indeed like wandering in the woods...They might in fact be called, more prosaically, How to Be a Good Reader, for Eco, in his incredibly manipulative way, has you eating out of his hand by the end of them. -- Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times Book Review Reading [these chapters] is indeed like wandering in the woods...They might in fact be called, more prosaically, How to Be a Good Reader, for Eco, in his incredibly manipulative way, has you eating out of his hand by the end of them.--Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times Book Review The dim boundary between the imaginary and the real is Eco's home terrain...He is a foxy gamesman, using enchanted woods as a flexible image for narrative texts, and mustering a playful array of allusions from The Three Musketeers to the Rocky Horror Picture Show .--Robert Taylor Boston Globe [This] dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and narrative theory into intellectual entertainment.--John O'Reilly Independent

This dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and narrative theory into intellectual entertainment. -- John O'Reilly Independent Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous...The literary examples Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane. His text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of surprising juxtapositions. Reading these chapters is indeed like wandering in the woods...They might in fact be called, more prosaically, How to Be a Good Reader, for Eco, in his incredibly manipulative way, has you eating out of his hand by the end of them. -- Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times Book Review Reading [these chapters] is indeed like wandering in the woods...They might in fact be called, more prosaically, How to Be a Good Reader, for Eco, in his incredibly manipulative way, has you eating out of his hand by the end of them.--Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times Book Review The dim boundary between the imaginary and the real is Eco's home terrain...He is a foxy gamesman, using enchanted woods as a flexible image for narrative texts, and mustering a playful array of allusions from The Three Musketeers to the Rocky Horror Picture Show .--Robert Taylor Boston Globe [This] dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and narrative theory into intellectual entertainment.--John O'Reilly Independent

[This] dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and narrative theory into intellectual entertainment.--John O'Reilly Independent

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