Conspiracy Theories (was The Philospher's Stone)

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Laurin York <lyorkus at y...> wrote:
>  
> > > (For European mediaeval history, it's the Knights
> > Templar, the Holy Grail, the corpse of Christ  
> 
> A pretty good novel about these types of conspiracy
> theories is Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
> (author of The Name of the Rose). 
> 
> One caveat: evidently, neither Eco nor any of his
> editors--in Italy or any other country where
> translations have been sold--is capable of correctly
> adding 666 to 1344, thus getting 2010, not 2000 as in
> the book.  If you can overlook the bad math, it's kind
> of a fun read...teaches you not take these things too
> seriously.
> 
> Laurin
> (unlurking)

One of my favourite novels!  I love the bit close to the beginning 
when they are trying to access the files on the computer, and are 
trying to find the password.  Strange humour, I know, but it 
appealled to me!

Catherine