piscesbooklover 's review for:

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

4.0

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This was a great, challenging book but one that is worth the challenge. This is a book that (being the tomb that it is) is meant to be read in chunks, instead of devoured in just one or two settings. The poem is beautiful with its structural complexity and vivid imagery. It moves you from concrete areas to areas that become more abstract as you travel along with Dante through each level of hell. I believe the best part about the entire thing is the further into the poem you go, the more complex it becomes and the more you have to sit and think on what you have read before you can go on. I love a book that immerses you so fully within the story-line.