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3.24 AVERAGE
3.24 AVERAGE
I was so interested in the premise of this novel but it was so choppy, did not follow one single storyline, developed SO slowly, and ultimately didn’t deliver on what I was hoping it would. The last 30 pages contains all the action, but even then was so anticlimactic. I wanted to like this book so badly because of how interesting Dante is, but it was so hard to read it took me an entire month to finish.
And another TBR bites the dust! This book has been hanging out on my bookshelves since December of 2012 when I picked it up at one of my favorite used bookstores, Edward McKay (their site), back in NC. More importantly, it is the 26th book from my TBR shelves this year. How awesome is that? That’s more than 1/3 of all the books I’ve read this year and I am incredibly happy and proud of that number.
I don’t know why I put off reading The Dante Club for so long. Maybe it was in some sort of effort to actually read all of Dante’s Divine Comedy before I read it, but that obviously hasn’t happened. The other thing that has left me wondering since I finished it , and honestly since I started it, is I can’t quite put my finger on why I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I feel I should have.
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.
I don’t know why I put off reading The Dante Club for so long. Maybe it was in some sort of effort to actually read all of Dante’s Divine Comedy before I read it, but that obviously hasn’t happened. The other thing that has left me wondering since I finished it , and honestly since I started it, is I can’t quite put my finger on why I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I feel I should have.
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.
dark
slow-paced
I loved this book even more because it took real people and put them into a fictional background.
[...] Il Circolo Dante è un'associazione letteraria, effettivamente esistita, e questo elemento mi ha invogliata ancora di più a prendere in mano questo libro e finalmente leggerlo. Tale "circolo" è composto da cinque uomini con un certo spessore letterario, persone di mondo, notorie e stimate dalla comunità di Boston. Lo scopo di questo gruppetto di gentiluomini è aiutare il fondatore del club esclusivo a tradurre per la prima volta La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Il loro fine è quindi far conoscere agli americani il poeta fiorentino e la sua avventura nell'aldilà, cosa che entusiasma parecchio, fino a un certo livello quasi ridicolo, questi personaggi, come se stessero intraprendendo un'importante impresa degna delle fatiche di Ercole. Ma già all'inizio del romanzo si capisce che questo quintetto dovrà fronteggiare non uno ma ben due problemi non poco banali. [...]
Per la recensione completa, qui: http://lanicchialetteraria.altervista.org/?p=207
Per la recensione completa, qui: http://lanicchialetteraria.altervista.org/?p=207
A little slow at the beginning,but it picked up. At times, it made me think of that movie "Seven" with Brad Pitt...a movie I have never been able to watch fully. Honestly, what really freaked me out were the bugs (don't worry, they're mentioned early so this doesn't qualify as a spoiler.) *shudders* This didn't help my phobia! Aside from that, I enjoyed it and was disappointed at the end of the audiobook to realize this was an abridged copy. Though that explains why one of the minor plot points (or at least, I thought it was) didn't get picked up and resolved. I need to find the book and find the right section so I can find out what happened...
I also now want to read Dante's The Inferno...
I also now want to read Dante's The Inferno...
The opening scenes of this book REALLY grossed me out. Had to put it down a couple of times, but decided to stick it out to get to the meat of the novel. Turns out the less disturbing sections of the book are also interminably boring. Have tried going back to it but just can't bring myself to do it.
The description sounded so interesting and I so desperately wanted to love this book, but I felt like the writing wasn’t hitting for me. I often found myself questioning what was happening or losing track of characters. Three stars for the concept, but I wasn’t a fan of the execution.
I love the Divine Comedy and I had high hopes for this book. Unfortunately it gets bogged down by poor writing and literary pedantry. Excellent idea, extremely poor execution.
Great premise and I really wanted to like it, but it was so dry for so long that I found myself rereading passages and flipping back to verify details.