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catladymcgee 's review for:
The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
I truly wish Goodreads would change their rating system, because a 2 star rating makes it seem as if I despised this book, when really I thought that it was well-written, intellectually stimulating, and quite interesting. It's just that I didn't really find myself enamored with it.
Anyway, the plot was good, the writing was superb, and the subject quite entertaining. However, the pace was staggeringly slow, and so many characters clogged the pages that the congestion started to wear on my ability to remember who was who.
That being said, I would describe this book as more of an Umberto Eco "Name of the Rose" than a Dan Brown "Inferno." High quality writing, high literary concepts, but low drive in terms of plot pacing.
Well worth the read, but not one I'm likely to read again.
Anyway, the plot was good, the writing was superb, and the subject quite entertaining. However, the pace was staggeringly slow, and so many characters clogged the pages that the congestion started to wear on my ability to remember who was who.
That being said, I would describe this book as more of an Umberto Eco "Name of the Rose" than a Dan Brown "Inferno." High quality writing, high literary concepts, but low drive in terms of plot pacing.
Well worth the read, but not one I'm likely to read again.