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The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

22 reviews

aeterna's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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room1055's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Second greatest self-insert FF ever written.
👏🏽

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gardengrove420's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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theocfite's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

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raru'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: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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an_everyday_penguin's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark reflective fast-paced

I read the English translation (obviously; I'm not fluent in Italian and even if I was, I'm sure I would have struggled) and it was't as bad as I thought it would be? It was a lot faster than I expected and I'm reading this for a course that I'm enjoying a lot. I wasn't expecting the amount of Greek mythology there was since this is about the Christian afterlife, but it was interesting. Not interesting enough to make me read Purgatory or Paradise, I don't think (or at least not yet), but still interesting.

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issyd23's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The OG bible fanfic full of Dante’s fanboying and self-inserts 4⭐️
Also the translator Mark Musa did a great job keeping the tone and plot in this version 5⭐️ for the translator!

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ohkayeig's review against another edition

4.25

dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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camraan's review against another edition

1.0

dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It was worth reading but I hope to never read it again. I guess now I’ll get the references.

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counciloffrogs's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Dante’s writing is truly fascinating to me, but readers be warned that Inferno is densely packed with allusion. Not only biblical, or even just greek mythos-based, but 14th century Italians politics, popes and other real-world religious figures, and at points personal acquaintances of Dante. I would not recommend delving into this work without prior background studies.
However, I do find it incredibly interesting the unique approach of analyzing real people in the context of their damnment to explain possible machinations of Hell. I enjoyed Inferno, even as a practicing pagan, which isn’t something I expected to be able to say about this book.

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