The Divine Comedy

[mr.brighteyes]

Now that I have finished the Watchmen I am once again going to attempt this. I have a lot of free time and have always wanted to read it. anyone else want to do a reading club with me on this. I don't care if you have read it before. maybe you reading it again while I'm reading it for the first time will help me gain perspective.

Who's with me?

[Donald M.]

Thanks, I think I'll just wait for the video game. (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ea-confirms-dante-s-inferno-game) :wink:

[Dan Felty]

Yeah, I'm down. I've just been reading The Canterbury Tales, and Chaucer's affinity for Dante has piqued my curiosity. I've never tried reading it before.

Is there a particular translation which you have in mind? I would prefer a verse translation.

[mr.brighteyes]

Yeah, I'm down. I've just been reading The Canterbury Tales, and Chaucer's affinity for Dante has piqued my curiosity. I've never tried reading it before.

Is there a particular translation which you have in mind? I would prefer a verse translation.

I have a copy already its the Barnes N Noble leather bound hard cover translated by Longfellow

[Gryphon]

i read this every so often as i find it a great work of literature.

[Aaron Kashtan]

Be warned that the Divine Comedy is not actually funny.

[Dan Felty]

Maybe you just don't get it. :tongue:

[Dan Felty]

i read this every so often as i find it a great work of literature.

So are you in, gryhpon?

[Gryphon]

So are you in, gryhpon?

unfortunately right now ive got aton of stuff to read for school so i wont have time.

[section 8]

I have read it, but this was some time ago, and my copy is in storage, i doubt I'd contribute much.

[Rabid Trekkie]

I started reading it once, put it down when a family member died (not exactly the happy thoughts I was looking for at the moment) and just haven't gotten back around to it yet. If I can find my Dad's old copy I'll be in on this book club idea. At least for the Inferno, don't have a copy of the whole thing for some reason.

[mr.brighteyes]

The devine comedy is very good and polite in its nature.


It's DIvine not Devine

[visablewoman]

It'a great read but I'd suggest gettting notes to go with it, as some of the symbolism can be a little lost on a modern reader.

[Mr.EZ]

Thanks, I think I'll just wait for the video game. (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ea-confirms-dante-s-inferno-game) :wink:

That's the worst thing I've ever heard...

[Roquefort Raider]

That's the worst thing I've ever heard...

Have you seen the version of the Divine Comedy that features Wolverine? :wink:

[Shot]

Now that I have finished the Watchmen I am once again going to attempt this. I have a lot of free time and have always wanted to read it. anyone else want to do a reading club with me on this. I don't care if you have read it before. maybe you reading it again while I'm reading it for the first time will help me gain perspective.

Who's with me?

I'll read it with you. Make sure and post what version/translation you're reading so we can all be on the same page. This could be a lot of fun.

[vonni vice vivace]

Thanks, I think I'll just wait for the video game. (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ea-confirms-dante-s-inferno-game) :wink:

Ohahahaha, noooo.

Nooo.

That is hilariously, no.

Hahahaha, hahaha!

Anyways, I've only read the Paradiso because I am a very backwards individual. But I will get back to you when I read the Inferno and Purgatorio

[Shellhead]

I found Inferno, by Niven and Pournelle, to be a much more enjoyable work. More action and more theology, and less weighted down with obscure and frankly local references than Dante's over-rated work.

[berk]

I found Inferno, by Niven and Pournelle, to be a much more enjoyable work. More action and more theology, and less weighted down with obscure and frankly local references than Dante's over-rated work.They just came out with a sequel, I saw in the bookstore the other day. "Escape from Hell."

[christoph68]

i've got the bantam classic version of all three books which have a verse translation by allen mandelbaum. it has one page in italian and the next in english [which i thought was cool].
i bought these from b.dalten books back in the fall of 1987 after i graduated from high school.
i took a collage reading class my senior year that touched on many classics and dante was one that i really liked even though we only looked at the inferno and not purgatorio or paradiso at the time.
i reread them back in the mid 1990's but have not looked at them since.
they're all a great read but if you can get the cliff notes for the books it might help in understanding each book otherwise you might end up going back and having to reread some of the canto's a second time [especially if you get other copies instead of the bantam classics].