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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
How can you evaluate something when you are fully aware that most of it has completely passed you by? There were some powerful phrases and beautiful language but I’m not sure the experience of reading it is one which has much to offer the average modern reader. Thematically powerful with glimpses of enduring brilliance hiding in a thicket of punishing verbiage.
Full review at http://theamateurcynic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-divine-comedy-carys-translation-by.html
Full review at http://theamateurcynic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-divine-comedy-carys-translation-by.html
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
informative
slow-paced
There is nothing quite like the feeling of finishing something as beautiful and essential to Literature as As The Divine Comedy. It has been my biggest commitment yet but I am so glad to have read the entirety of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. I love the language - even in the translation. I am filled with joy at the prospect of understanding Dante’s - and my own - journey through the three worlds that mirrors the human existence
slow-paced
okay, technically 11 year old me read a shortened form of it. and it took me a couple years to realize that i can't say i've the book as a whole. and it took me even more years to edit this 'review'.
besides, i was a problematic kid if every other second i judged someone's belief. good thing i grew up.
i'm gonna re-shelf this as a 'to read' cause i really should read it.
but i'm also leaving the date read cause in a way i did have a nice reading experience with it years ago, and i gotta count that somewhere.
besides, i was a problematic kid if every other second i judged someone's belief. good thing i grew up.
i'm gonna re-shelf this as a 'to read' cause i really should read it.
but i'm also leaving the date read cause in a way i did have a nice reading experience with it years ago, and i gotta count that somewhere.
Dante's writing makes you stop in your tracks - more so the Inferno than its two successors, granted, but its depictions of the afterlife and its differing glories and tribulations are artistic and beautiful in a very incredible way.
Okay. I loooooove Inferno, and this is the third time I've read it. Purgatorio was interesting, and modeling it in kind of the same way with different circles/levels made sense in structure. Paradisio, though...it seemed SO drawn out and stretched. Like, part of the whole point of Heaven is that there aren't different levels, so it obviously couldn't have the same structure, but Dante tried to kind of make it fit anyways, and it just didn't. It went on forever and basically said the same thing over and over.
Also, I got sooo tired of different people in all three parts being like "I'm going to answer this question you won't ask because I know what you want to ask". By the end I was almost yelling at Dante to JUST ASK HIS OWN QUESTIONS GEEZ.
Also, a weird and surprising amount of math references in here. Loved that.
Inferno - ****
Purgatorio - ***
Paradisio - *
Also, I got sooo tired of different people in all three parts being like "I'm going to answer this question you won't ask because I know what you want to ask". By the end I was almost yelling at Dante to JUST ASK HIS OWN QUESTIONS GEEZ.
Also, a weird and surprising amount of math references in here. Loved that.
Inferno - ****
Purgatorio - ***
Paradisio - *
Of course it was amazing! Classics are classics for a reason.
Although, hell sounds scary!
Although, hell sounds scary!
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated