Young Writers Society

Difficult? Yep.

Full of symbolism and allegories? Sure.

Like wading through quicksand at times? Oh, yes.

But an incredible work that everyone ought to read? Definitely.

So who has read it?

Oh, come on, you guys! Somebody must have read it!

:raises hand vaguely:

Dante was a nutcase, and excepting Inferno, the rest of the "Comedy" sucked. This would be easier to discuss on AIM, so...yeah. If you've got it, IM me at glisterystripe. If not...:shrug:

Yes but...

I'm going to learn Italian so I can read it in its proper form.

That's awesome, Snoink! I think it's really cool how he wrote the poem in the vernacular Italian so that his countrymen could read it, rather than writing it in the classical Latin. Yep.

I loved inferno. thats all Im gonna say

I like it as a whole, but Purgatory might actually be my favourite...oddly enough. Inferno scared me...LOL...

Purgatorio was kind of...pointless and disturbing.

Once past hell, you get to go float around in an empty white box and contemplate what you did. OOOOOH now that was creative given his timeframe. :shrug: Dante is a waste of time. If you want an Omnibus coures, you need to keep materials current; as religion is nothing but a superstition that is eventually superceded by science in the future.

how was Heaven? I only had the chance to read Inferno

Paradiso is probably the least-liked of all three parts in the Comedy. It lacks in gory description so common of Inferno and contains many lengthy lectures on things like the function/nature of angels, the Fall of man in the Garden, Creation, the nature of sin, etc.

Incandesence wrote:Purgatorio was kind of...pointless and disturbing.

Once past hell, you get to go float around in an empty white box and contemplate what you did. OOOOOH now that was creative given his timeframe. :shrug: Dante is a waste of time. If you want an Omnibus coures, you need to keep materials current; as religion is nothing but a superstition that is eventually superceded by science in the future.

Disturbing how?

Keep the material current? Brad, that's probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard you say. If we kept everything current that would mean not reading Homer, Virgil, Suetonius, Plato, Aristotle, and Chaucer.

AUGH!!!

I want to read Inferno so badly...but...all the copies in my library are always checked out.

Ah well.

I know this site questionaire thing that you answer and it tells you which level fo Hell you go to, accorinding to Dante's thingy.
I got to Level 6 (I think anyways).

Anyways - never read the actual story though .

I've just read The Inferno.

Loveee.

Seriously. Best thing I ever read in highschool. Definitely worth the Saturday spent on it!

Oh, and my level? Eighth. Haha.
Meg

I read in my appalling English II class a month ago.

I enjoyed reading it. Quite difficult at times.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

not me =(