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 ...
Written for the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament(sung to the tune of "Minnie The Moocher")Folks, here´s a story about Winnie the Pooh-cherHe was a chubby Pooh-chie-koocherHe was fat and loved his honey but he was sweet and his heart was sunny(chorus)Hunny-Hunny-Hunny-hiHundee-hundee-hunndee-h...
The Scary Book isn't scary at all. Of course, it has ghosts, witches and other unusual things, but it is really a funny book with stories, poems, jokes, riddles and more.The one story called "Wait 'Til Martin Comes" is one I've read two times before in two other books, but they were different versio...
nice anthology of excepts, short stories, poems, etc about Italy. I was introduced or reacquainted with authors I'd like to get to know better.
Well... lots of symbolism. Hell, you're punished symbolically for the sins you commit on Earth. He mixes some paganism with Roman Catholicism, thus adding paganism to Roman Catholicism even more so. Outside of that, a good chunk of this book is Aligheri criticizing his political enemies and rivals. ...
This book has been sitting on my shelf for a long time. I finally got around to reading it now, and I can say that it was worth reading-- even if it left me with more questions about Hell than I had before I started (which, if you're wondering, was zero). I seem to be saying this a lot in my reviews...
Hell is fun! in book form.
"You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth." - Niels BohrI was thinking about Dante the other day and wondering how one could approach him from the angle of a GoodReads review. One of the obvious problems is that he lived a lo...
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