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Now we know where Dan Brown stole all his ideas. The primary difference between the two books is readability. Brown's a barn-storming page turner and Foucault's Pendulum makes you want to burn every barn on the planet that contains a copy of the book. The name-dropping trivia makes you so numb it might make a forced reading a valid Guantanamo torture strategy. I get that it was written by an Italian who was living in Italy, but 98% of the names and other pronouns referenced in the book could be dropped and the story wouldn't change an iota. Its like author wanted to show off his research skills; but instead, he just ends up with a mind-boggling boring book.