adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

Excellent book, one of the best I've ever read. Footnotes and canto summaries in this edition are immensely useful for the uninformed/casual reader like myself - otherwise you would not appreciate the rich references through the text. Cannot speak to the accuracy of the translation having never read the original Italian or other translations.

i think about this book every day still
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DID NOT FINISH

Przestaję, przeszłam mniej więcej przez najbardziej interesujące mnie części i nie mam wielkiej potrzeby iść dalej. Widać że ten włoski z XIV wieku trochę taki ograniczony, a jednak da się napisać fajnie C:
dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Not a fan of poetry. I purchased a slip cover because, like a nerd, I loved the game. I wanted to read the original source material. Inferno was interesting. Purgatorio and Praadisio were beyond boring. I didn’t even finish it. The illustrations (historical) are astounding. A nice piece to decorate my shelf

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This just didn’t work for me…I gave it an extra star for the historical impact but it felt like the same tortuous ideas over and over and over. Every 5 pages I’d fall asleep again. At the time it was published I can agree it was life changing but now it’s so heavily used in society that a person could skip reading it and still understand the full importance.
adventurous challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

R.I.P Dante Alighieri, you would have loved RPF on Ao3