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kaydondino 's review for:
The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
This book was recommended in a comment section somewhere in the vastness of the internet. I can’t remember where but I’m glad I stumbled upon the comment. Post civil war Boston and Cambridge have never held much interest for me and I confess that I only know of Oliver Wendell Holmes because he has a sweet 3 part name that my middle school mind locked onto. Longfellow I know existed and that people like his poetry but unless your name is Homer or TS Eliot I don’t care about poetry.
I almost put this book down for good because the first chapter is a exceedingly slow. We get bogged down because the author cannot just call his characters Holmes or Longfellow, oh no they must be called by their full names because Pearl needs us to know who he’s writing about. But stick around a few chapters after that and it gets better, I promise.
The mutters are good and so is the twist.
And hey, it’s the first fiction book I’ve read this year by a dude. Weird.
I almost put this book down for good because the first chapter is a exceedingly slow. We get bogged down because the author cannot just call his characters Holmes or Longfellow, oh no they must be called by their full names because Pearl needs us to know who he’s writing about. But stick around a few chapters after that and it gets better, I promise.
The mutters are good and so is the twist.
And hey, it’s the first fiction book I’ve read this year by a dude. Weird.