I tried Foucaults Pendulum a few years back - a bit texturally dense for me - that is a polite way of saying I found it unreadable - and as I read about 3 books a week until the kids came along and have a pretty high threshold for that sort of stuff, when I don't finish a book because I find it too hard a read (total of maybe 3 books in my life) it's probably only for really keen lit-heads...maybe it caught me on a bad day or something..

LOL - if a guy makes the first 100pp of a book unreadable on purpose 'to weed out the unworthy' I guess he doesn't deserve to get read much

Like I said, strictly for lit-heads only that one. Joins DH Lawrence and James Joyce on the 'life is too short for that kind of pretentious intellectual masturbation' pile..

Not read Name of the Rose either.