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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
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
Sounds like a good introduction. Wanted some easy to digest base knowledge prior or reading the translation. I enjoyed it.
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
Did I enjoy this book? That‘s a really great question.
No. I didn’t. At all.
For such a famous and well known book I expected to at least learn something. After all, this is one of the most well known pieces of literature in the world.
For those who haven’t had the pleasure of reading this novel my Mr Dante, essentially it is Bible Fan-fiction. It is the story of this guy who meets Virgil in a forest and they show him the layers of hell, purgatory and finally heaven. Dante is the y/n and Beatrice is baby Drakko. It makes it even weirder when you realise that Beatrice was a real person and not even remotely interested in Dante, they only met a few times??
I knew I couldn’t trust this man when he put Robert Guiscard and Geoffrey of Bouillon in heaven (Robert was a Norman who conquered Sicily and tried to capture Byzantium in 1082, Geoffrey was a Crusader who was the main reason for the success of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099) who have massacred and killed many people, but put Cleopatra and Helen of Troy in hell?? Like I get they killed people too but not on the scale of Robert and Geoffrey??? And at least they were girlbosses about it? And Cleopatra and Helen weren’t even in hell for murder, they were in for lust. As if these crusading men didn’t cheat on their wives every other minute???
Now let’s get onto the cultural impact. I cannot think of one thing I learnt from this book. Alas, it is very well written, but it has no cultural impact. I’ll give it that Dante had a hard life, being exiled from Florence, but he could have written a better book??? Like where was the smut??? On a serious note, Call Me by Your Name had more of a cultural impact than the Divine Comedy. For example, every time I see a peach I think of Elio, but whenever I see Religion I think of Tyler, not Dante??
In conclusion, Dante may have been influential and progressive back in the sixteenth century, but it lacks the allure and cultural impact in contemporary literature. It is Biblical fanfiction just with a lot more misogyny than any other Drakko fan fic, including Filthy.
If you like this book you are a pretentious freak and I don’t like you.
Dante may have written the Divine Comedy, but he couldn’t have written Call Me By Your Name or Filthy, or even those science smut books Aimee reads.
I need to read some Fitzgerald to cleanse myself now.
No. I didn’t. At all.
For such a famous and well known book I expected to at least learn something. After all, this is one of the most well known pieces of literature in the world.
For those who haven’t had the pleasure of reading this novel my Mr Dante, essentially it is Bible Fan-fiction. It is the story of this guy who meets Virgil in a forest and they show him the layers of hell, purgatory and finally heaven. Dante is the y/n and Beatrice is baby Drakko. It makes it even weirder when you realise that Beatrice was a real person and not even remotely interested in Dante, they only met a few times??
I knew I couldn’t trust this man when he put Robert Guiscard and Geoffrey of Bouillon in heaven (Robert was a Norman who conquered Sicily and tried to capture Byzantium in 1082, Geoffrey was a Crusader who was the main reason for the success of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099) who have massacred and killed many people, but put Cleopatra and Helen of Troy in hell?? Like I get they killed people too but not on the scale of Robert and Geoffrey??? And at least they were girlbosses about it? And Cleopatra and Helen weren’t even in hell for murder, they were in for lust. As if these crusading men didn’t cheat on their wives every other minute???
Now let’s get onto the cultural impact. I cannot think of one thing I learnt from this book. Alas, it is very well written, but it has no cultural impact. I’ll give it that Dante had a hard life, being exiled from Florence, but he could have written a better book??? Like where was the smut??? On a serious note, Call Me by Your Name had more of a cultural impact than the Divine Comedy. For example, every time I see a peach I think of Elio, but whenever I see Religion I think of Tyler, not Dante??
In conclusion, Dante may have been influential and progressive back in the sixteenth century, but it lacks the allure and cultural impact in contemporary literature. It is Biblical fanfiction just with a lot more misogyny than any other Drakko fan fic, including Filthy.
If you like this book you are a pretentious freak and I don’t like you.
Dante may have written the Divine Comedy, but he couldn’t have written Call Me By Your Name or Filthy, or even those science smut books Aimee reads.
I need to read some Fitzgerald to cleanse myself now.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The worst self-insert fanfiction I've read in a while. I only care about it to the extent of its effect on other literature and society.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
reflective
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
No seré yo la primera en apuntar el increíble impacto que tuvo este texto en la historia de la humanidad, y el papel que tiene en mucha de la construcción del inconsciente colectivo sobre el cielo y el infierno que todavía compartimos en la actualidad, al menos como un referente en el mundo judeo-cristiano y occidental. Es difícil separar las imágenes pintadas por Dante de lo que pueda darse en otros textos. Pero aún más hermoso es la construcción poética que nos lleva de la oscuridad más temida a la luz con gloria paradisíaca. Pero el mensaje que más me llenó fue entender que al final del día todo, y Dante dice TODO, se trata de amor. Y no soy una persona que utiliza esta palabra con facilidad, y en este ambiente va mucho más allá de una connotación romántica, es la intención de tus acciones y pensamientos y palabras. Es la forma en la que tratas a otros y lo que haces esperando o no esperando cosas en específico de regreso. Es saber si vives en la gratificación corta e inmediata de la naturaleza humana o si puedes fijar tu mirada en cosas más allá de lo que puedes ver frente a ti. Es tener cuidado de no juzgar y hacer lo que se requiere sin exagerar tu presencia. Muchas de las lecciones que aprendes y que se te ha dicho toda tu vida reflejadas en personajes históricos, mitológicos y religiosos por sus vidas y por donde han terminado. Es un libro de libros.
Es el deseo de la humanidad de saber qué pasará más allá de la muerta y si el amor perdura más allá de la mortalidad.
Es el deseo de la humanidad de saber qué pasará más allá de la muerta y si el amor perdura más allá de la mortalidad.