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bookishfaye's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
This was a wild ride that I will probably need to reread yet again another translation of perhaps, or read extensive breakdowns of online. I simply feel like this book is just too smart for me; there are aspects that i definitely love, and it’s really fun seeing how modern media references different aspects of this in interesting little ways, but it’s very hard for my brain to make sense of while I read.
gabrielrobartes's review against another edition
4.0
Not the most radical version of the Inferno I've read (that would be Agard and Kitamura's delightfully iconoclastic The Young Inferno) but a more successful update than I expected and surprisingly faithful. When it works, it's lucid and transparent. But some of the interpolations ("If I could create some death metal vocals") clunk where they need to chime. Others, however, are surprisingly effective. Geryon, the terrifying beast who delivers them to the bottom of the eighth circle disappears "like a heat-seeking missile released from its mount" (the alliteration helps). The shade of Adam Ant is unexpectedly (and effectively) summoned in an aside in Canto XII. There are also passages of great beauty. The tale of the death of Ulysses (one of my favourite passages) concludes elegantly and elegiacally - "It spun three times and all the water with it/On the fourth spin , the stern tilted up/And the prow dipped, which is what another willed//Until the sea drew its curtain closed over us."
Not a first Inferno, perhaps, but a further enlightening one.
Not a first Inferno, perhaps, but a further enlightening one.
cwbates8's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
sneebus's review against another edition
Dante doesn’t need my rating as he’s been dead 700 years. Vivid, haunting imagery, shaped the vision of hell that we all imagine, blah blah blah. Can we talk about what a petty, self obsessed queen he was?
I have to give respect to the world’s most famous self-insert fanfic.
I have to give respect to the world’s most famous self-insert fanfic.
siren224's review against another edition
1.0
سيئة جدا والمؤلف متعصب للغاية
وأفكاره ليست أصيلة مأخوذة من كتب أخري
والضجة التي عليه لا أعرف سببها
لكن النجمة للمترجم رائع في الحقيقة
لكن يعظم دانتي بطريقة عجيبة
في الواقع عندما قرأت ما وصلنا من تاريخ دانتي لم أجده يستحق كل تلك العظمة من الأصل
حتي لا أفهم لماذا هو نفسه يعد نفسه عظيم
ويرمي أيضا بكل اولئك العظماء في الليمبو لأنهم ليسوا مسيحيين!
تعصب رهيب
حتي تصاويره ليست بالجديدة
ربما في زمنهم جديدة لكن لا أعلم استفزني الكتاب
وأفكاره ليست أصيلة مأخوذة من كتب أخري
والضجة التي عليه لا أعرف سببها
لكن النجمة للمترجم رائع في الحقيقة
لكن يعظم دانتي بطريقة عجيبة
في الواقع عندما قرأت ما وصلنا من تاريخ دانتي لم أجده يستحق كل تلك العظمة من الأصل
حتي لا أفهم لماذا هو نفسه يعد نفسه عظيم
ويرمي أيضا بكل اولئك العظماء في الليمبو لأنهم ليسوا مسيحيين!
تعصب رهيب
حتي تصاويره ليست بالجديدة
ربما في زمنهم جديدة لكن لا أعلم استفزني الكتاب
alec_baguette's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
fucking mind blowing. don’t recommend reading it in one sitting though.
ryleeelyse's review against another edition
challenging
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5