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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
continuing with a different edition bc im too stupid for this one bruh
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-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
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
slow-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This and all the young dudes are my favorite fanfictions of all time.
challenging
dark
tense
slow-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 book felt like the final installment in a trilogy to me. my Mom's old copies of both The Aeneid and The Divine Comedy are now resting next to my own mass market paperback copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Virgil gave Aeneas a home in Rome to bolster a founding mythology. Ovid took Bacchus/Dionysus and gave Rome Liber and the rest of its pantheon. and now Dante scoops both of their worlds lovingly into his arms and delivers them to a new context within Renaissance Catholic myth. an evolving theory+story that shifts to fit everything that came before it.
i won't pretend there weren't long bored doldrums while reading this. but i found my mind circling the drain dug by a few of Dante's motifs in the Comedy that i think i'll be stuck on for a while. the first is his geometric conception of morality. the second is his ability to immortalize inconsequential people just because he chose them as avatars for a given vice or virtue. the final one is his ability to place human reason within its subordinated position beneath beauty and how it affects the other two.
i'm grateful for all of the art that helped give this book space in my mind
i won't pretend there weren't long bored doldrums while reading this. but i found my mind circling the drain dug by a few of Dante's motifs in the Comedy that i think i'll be stuck on for a while. the first is his geometric conception of morality. the second is his ability to immortalize inconsequential people just because he chose them as avatars for a given vice or virtue. the final one is his ability to place human reason within its subordinated position beneath beauty and how it affects the other two.
i'm grateful for all of the art that helped give this book space in my mind