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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Inferno:I can honestly say I will probably never read this book again unless I have to. I read it because one of my favorite books references Inferno, but I am kind of regretting it. It is not horrible, just so confusing. Nothing is really making sense and I am having trouble keeping track of all the people Dante is meeting. I think that most of them are famous people, but I am not sure what influence all of them had. It has also been confusing when Dante refers to Virgil as “the Poet” because in Italy in the Middle Ages Dante was “the Poet.” It is also confusing to keep track of the different circles and layers of the Inferno. Even though there are only nine circles there are many sub-circles almost. I feel like it would be really helpful to read this with a diagram nearby. The one slightly interesting part for me is all the similarities between the Inferno and the Underworld in Greek mythology. Dante is very anti-Greek religion it seems and very pro-Christian. In his version of Hell there is a place reserved for people who were not baptized. But despite all this Dante encounters many creatures and people from Greek mythology, as well cross the river Styx to get to the Inferno. This is confusing too, but it is kind of fun to think about it and contemplate why Dante wrote in this way. Overall, this book is way too confusing and I don’t understand much of it, but I am trying to enjoy it and see why it has become so well-known and renowned.
dark
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Yes, I read this because of Hozier’s upcoming album.
No, I didn’t especially enjoy it.
Yes, I recognise why it’s as famous as it is.
No, I don’t think it’s bad.
Yes, it’s a classic.
No, I don’t care for it.
Love that people love this and again, I do recognise why it’s considered a masterpiece. Perhaps it’s my chronic lack of faith and religiosity but I just felt nothing reading this. I’m much more an imagery poetry gal and less about the epics. Anyways, glad I read it and love that I have a sick looking copy of it so I can be truly pretentious.
No, I didn’t especially enjoy it.
Yes, I recognise why it’s as famous as it is.
No, I don’t think it’s bad.
Yes, it’s a classic.
No, I don’t care for it.
Love that people love this and again, I do recognise why it’s considered a masterpiece. Perhaps it’s my chronic lack of faith and religiosity but I just felt nothing reading this. I’m much more an imagery poetry gal and less about the epics. Anyways, glad I read it and love that I have a sick looking copy of it so I can be truly pretentious.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I FINISHED IT!!!! I deserve and award now!
I'm sure if I was a little more determined to fully understand what I was reading I would have appreciated the book a lot more. But since I am neither a historian or a theologian or lit major, I simply lacked the will or the background to enjoy this book. Plus I'm really lazy when it comes to reading footnotes.
I'm sure if I was a little more determined to fully understand what I was reading I would have appreciated the book a lot more. But since I am neither a historian or a theologian or lit major, I simply lacked the will or the background to enjoy this book. Plus I'm really lazy when it comes to reading footnotes.
Sayers' synopsis are fantastic and definitely worth reading at the start of every chapter.
Her translation provides for a relatively modern english though there is something lacking, in my personal opinion, as to the line breaks, it feels very heavy, like a soldier's marching beat and forced in its rhyme scheme, but I honestly have no clue as to what it sounded like originally in Italian, that's a youtube listen at a later date.
The story is a wondrous one and it is exceptionally hard not to imagine the surreal response this deep dive into the pits of hell must have brought out in its readers upon publication. This is definitely Fan Fiction brought to its emotionally charged extremes.
Side Note, At the end of the first book, Sayers explains the difference in how Dante would have viewed the world in comparison to today and I feel it could easily apply to magic and even our emotional responses as a human pre-scientific rational breakdown. It's worth a read and I've included a fragment below:
'The Ptolemaic universe is the universe we recognize, as we recognize a photograph or picture of the house in which we live. It is inferior to the Copernican in that its mathematics, even when corrected by modern knowledge, would be too complicated for ready calculation; but it is superior as a description of what the Heavens have to show us, because it is a direct transcript of the observed phenomena" (295)
Her translation provides for a relatively modern english though there is something lacking, in my personal opinion, as to the line breaks, it feels very heavy, like a soldier's marching beat and forced in its rhyme scheme, but I honestly have no clue as to what it sounded like originally in Italian, that's a youtube listen at a later date.
The story is a wondrous one and it is exceptionally hard not to imagine the surreal response this deep dive into the pits of hell must have brought out in its readers upon publication. This is definitely Fan Fiction brought to its emotionally charged extremes.
Side Note, At the end of the first book, Sayers explains the difference in how Dante would have viewed the world in comparison to today and I feel it could easily apply to magic and even our emotional responses as a human pre-scientific rational breakdown. It's worth a read and I've included a fragment below:
'The Ptolemaic universe is the universe we recognize, as we recognize a photograph or picture of the house in which we live. It is inferior to the Copernican in that its mathematics, even when corrected by modern knowledge, would be too complicated for ready calculation; but it is superior as a description of what the Heavens have to show us, because it is a direct transcript of the observed phenomena" (295)
Deel 1 (hel) was goed.
Delen 2 (louteringsberg) en 3 (hemel) waren vrij droog en saai.
Delen 2 (louteringsberg) en 3 (hemel) waren vrij droog en saai.