It's Book Circle day, and also the 24th day of the Doubleday UK meme which invites one to consider which book is most reminiscent of that dread and drear individual, The English Teacher. http://tinyurl.com/la754n4 It's poetry. The ***ONLY*** reason I read poetry is that it's somehow assigned rea...
The Inferno is one of those books that everyone talks about, but very few people seem to have actually read. It’s a classic of the highest order, and after having read it myself, I have to say I agree with that verdict. It is genuinely magnificently written, and I have both Dante and John Ciardi to ...
Dante's lively, conical hell is vivacious, and his story is presented as history, allowing its spiritual and philosophical significance to emerge unforced. It offers a nuanced view of human action, thought, character and judgement, as well as the role of divine justice.All this might seem unappealin...
Edited to add my impression after second reading. Still not really loving it, but in the other hand, my verse reading is warmed up! Reading The Purgatory should be less an effort. --------------------------------------------- I was totally out of my depth; like literally drowned by all the facts...
I find The Divine Comedy among the most amazing works I've ever read--despite that the work is essentially Christian Allegory and I'm an atheist. First and foremost for its structure. Recently I read Moby Dick and though it had powerful passages I found it self-indulgent and bloated and devoutly wis...
I'm afraid it's over between us, El. And Patrick. I read this whole thing all over again just because you said I'm an asshole and it's really very good, and guess who's the asshole? Dante. Dante is the asshole.Here are the three problems with this book:1) It is confusing. There are famously nine cir...
Lo comencé hace años pero nunca lo terminé, no porque no me guste, sea denso, etc. Se me fueron juntando otras lecturas y después, bueno, quedó ahí... Cosas de la vida. Así que no es tan "forever-currently-reading", es un "for-the-moment", un "definitely-coming-back", un "must-finish-it-before-burie...
Well, I'm glad I'm finally done with this one. The writing is great, the language is wonderful, the inventiveness of the scenes is spectacular. The first several cantos were very engrossing. Then it got boring! Good grief! Too many names, too many people who Dante was clearly familliar with, bu...
My love/hate affair with the Divine Comedy began many years ago. A literature teacher got me interested in it, but at that age I couldn't grasp it for what it was. I read the words but didn't feel them. I tried again several more times, with various versions, sometimes the entire Divine Comedy, at o...
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