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The Dante Club is by far my favorite of Pearl's books so far. Creepy, well-textured, and marvelous. The others aren't bad by a long shot, but I liked Dante Club the best.

... the Dante and the Browning all interwoven, and the narration is just perfect. As I think I said when I was writing about The Dante Club recently, this is the novel that got me into reading Dante "proper". Reminds me also that I don't have a copy on my shelves... my original went missing, ...

The Dante Club is one of my favorites. I particularly liked the references to the literary characters of Boston.

93. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl Continuing my streak of random reading here... I've had a copy of this for ages; in fact, this is the second one I've had as I gave the first away via BookMooch unread after I read a bunch of unfavourable reviews. There's a lesson in there somewhere about ...

Thanks MrsPenny, I think you'll notice some crossover characters from The Dante Club appearing in The Last Dickens! I hope you enjoy it. Riverwillow, so glad you'll also be rereading The Mystery of Edwin Drood, I bet you'll have a blast looking at it again.

Hallo Matthew - thank you sharing your thoughts on your writing life - I enjoyed The Dante Club very much and am waiting for my copy of The Last Dickens to arrive.

Evening Matthew, I read The Dante Club a while back (and recently picked up a copy of The Poe Shadow. I found myself drawn into the dark storyline of your book, the images were disturbing yet gripping, I was compelled to read on. As a reader, a book stays with you, not only while you are ...

... other hand, I do feel much more in control of my material. The Last Dickens, for example, required far fewer drafts than The Dante Club for me to feel it was ready. I am able to identify problems or obstacles and address them more quickly than I would have been when I was writing my first ...

... of The Last Dickens on order and I'm looking forward to reading it. I enjoyed The Poe Shadow and have to confess that The Dante Club is buried somewhere in my 'to read' mountain - in my defence I wanted to read this close to my rereading Inferno and as I've just started an English MA, ...

... with this subject. I had first researched Fields, Osgood & Co. (previously Ticknor and Fields) for my first novel, The Dante Club, in which both Fields and Osgood are characters (although they play larger parts in The Last Dickens). Because that publishing firm does not exist anymore, ...

... read The Mystery of Edwin Drood or, for that matter, any Charles Dickens novels in order to read my book. That's true of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow, too, in relation to previous knowledge of Dante and Poe. All that said, I'm always happy to hear a reader whose interests are sparked ...

I've owned The Dante Club for years without reading it. This is a good nudge towards a historical fiction category. Sorry about the migraine. They are truly miserable things.

Starting with the Dante Club, I was hoping to have a big chunk of this read by now but had the remains of a migraine most of the weekend :(

Hey Superman, thanks for joining in here. Like all first novels The Dante Club was a very special book to write. It channeled years of creative feelings and ideas for me, and your description of "reader's reads" couldn't be more gratifying to me. If you ever go to Cambridge, make sure you tour ...

... with very few words. For me, writing fiction came almost accidentally. I had an idea for a story (what would become The Dante Club) and I think I made myself into a writer to tell it. I didn't have any training. What I take from my own path is that there is no "track" to writing--every ...

What was your favorite part about writing The Dante Club? I thought it was really interesting the plot you weaved around so many different characters and you also made me interested in those authors! In The Poe Shadow I really loved the mysterious way that Poe was portrayed and how very ...

I loved The DanteClub and Alias Grace. A Suitable Boy is on my TBR pile as is North and South, although I'm not sure I'll get to them this year. I'm doing the Les Miserables Group read and I can't wait to get started on that one. Looks like you have already picked out some great ...

... done: tbr: 1. Last Orders, Graham Swift 2. Chocky, John Wyndham 3. Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand 4. The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl 5. V., Thomas Pynchon 6. The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, Louis de Bernieres 7. The Empress of South America, ...

33. le cercle de Dante de Matthew Pearl Boston, peu après la guerre de sécession, plusieurs écrivains se consacrent à la traduction de l'enfer de Dante. Un meurtrier commence à assassiner en appliquant les châtiments décrits dans le livre. Malgré une bonne idée, le livre m'a un ...

... of buying new books. Unfortunately, I'm not very good with that. >202: Jbleil, That was especially frustrating with The Dante Club, after a difficult beginning, the mystery sped things up and made the plot interesting, and then the ending happened the way it did. Kind of a disappointment ...

#71. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl Read: August 21-31, 2009 *******SPOILERS************ Synopsis: In 1865 Boston, a judge is found behind his house covered in blood, maggots, and blowflies. Shortly after, a reverend is found deep in underground tunnels beneath the ...

Okay, I'm looking for a Rollins to try. I don't know about the Dante. After just recently reading Pearl's The Dante Club, it seems a bit grim.

The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise by Dante

... to the end (mostly because I was trapped in a car from California to Texas). Not recommended, though I did like his first The Dante Club.

... to finish. William Styron's Darkness Visible I felt too much of him, it just didn't ring true, something was off. Dante Club No one lives long enough to finish!! Wuthering Heights I liked yet was very depressing and brutal. I didn't even bother with The Thirteenth Tale after ...

... Case of Christmas Murder by Robert Lee Hall Goose Chase by Patrice Kindl Space by James Michener The Dante Club: A Novel by Matthew Pearl A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks ...and many others! Please come by and check it out. I need to move these ...

Yeah, I tend to get angrier with bad writing and formulaic writing. I literally threw The Dante Club into a rest stop trash can. On the other hand, one book that I hated but nevertheless finished that made me extremely angry was The House of Sand and Fog. In this case, it was the main ...

... the Catholic church for some time, since I had learned about it as a child in Catholic school. This was in a section about Dante and the Divine Comedy, when he was talking about Dante's difficulty with the idea of the unbaptized going to hell. Limbo was a later solution to this difficulty, ...

2.Adult Fool by Christopher Moore Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay Books to Read: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen A Spot of Bother by Mar ...

... we picked up Evil Genius and Genius Squad, as well as The Reformed Vampire Support Group and Coraline. Also grabbed The Dante Club and The Elegance of the Hedgehog off the BOGO table. The mail fairies brought Daughter of Fortune this week, too...

#44 The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. Pearl presents a dark, gripping story in a moody style with a period feel. Once I adjusted to the author's sudden and frequent shifts in time, I was completely riveted. I am adding some L ...

I'm working on The Dante Club and The Elegant Universe. Just finished Confucius Lives Next Door, lots of kudos, very good read.

I got Dante Club in the mail from PBS today.... and jhedlund, I added Packing Girlhood to my wishlists, as well. I do have a couple books on Mt. TBR like it. Deadly Persuasion (for som reason, the TS for this one say Can't Buy My Love and Can't Buy My Love, both ...

... book and is due soon) 3. What book did everyone like and you hated? The Time Traveler's Wife, The Da Vinci Code, The Dante Club ....probably a few others too... 4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't? Dance With Dragons because George R.R. ...

I really enjoyed The Dante Club. It really made the time and characters come alive for me. I remember reading about Longfellow, Holmes, etc. in American literature in high school and felt that Matthew Pearl did a good job of making them real to the reader. The book made me want to read not ...

What did you think about The Dante Club? I read that about a year ago. finished Matthew Pearl's new one, The Poe Shadow, and thought it was well worth the read. It's neat to see well known works of literature and authors used in such a way.

>33: I recommend you give The Dante Club a try. I haven't heard of A Rich Full Death, but since it comes so highly recommended I will be adding it to my reading list. I also plan on reading The Divine Comedy which I've never read in its entirety. In school I think we just read sections, and ...

i recently read The Dante Club which is a nifty little book that incorporates a lot of Inferno references. I think it's sorta along the lines of a DaVinci Code style book, but it did keep me entertained.

i recently read The Dante Club which is a nifty little book that incorporates a lot of Inferno references. I think it's sorta along the lines of a DaVinci Code style book, but it did keep me entertained.

>32: thanks for the notes on The Dante Club. I've seen really mixed opinions of this - it's a book I acquired from BookMooch, swapped on another site without reading it after a swathe of negative comments, then recently bought again in the library sale... Michael Dibdin's A Rich Full Death, ...

... Duel I've been reading and awful lot of fantasy and YA books recently. However, the exception in my recent reads is The Dante Club. This book is a historical mystery/thriller. It is set in Boston shortly after the civil war and the main characters are some of the authors I read in America ...

23. The Dante Club 24. The Princess and the Hound 25. Goose Chase 26. Just Ella

23. The Dante Club 24. The Princess and the Hound 25. Goose Chase 26. Just Ella

Lisa, I confess I could not get past 200 pages in The Dante Club. As a native Italian, I have been "exposed" to Dante ever since I was 11 years old. In school, we had to memorize part of it, usually from the Inferno (Conte Ugolino, Farinata degli Uberti, Ulisse, Caronte). I would be very ...

... and has even appeared in contemporary popular literature like Jodi Picoult's The Tenth Circle and Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club.

01. The Fire by Katherine Neville 02. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl 03. Arcana Mundi by Georg Luck 04. Black Market Truth by Sharon Kaye 05. Medicus by Ruth Downie 06. The Night Villa by Carol Goodman 07. Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf 08. T ...

... been a lot more cautious about jumping on the bandwagon. (Oh, but there was that attempt to read the unbelievably putrid The Dante Club . . .) I've never read a Harry Potter book, anything by Sue Monk Kidd, or DaVinci Code. Just not the kind of thing that interests me. A few other ...

I could not finish The Dante Club either, but I loved The Meaning of Night, The Quincunx (as I have already said ad nauseam), and quite enjoyed Drood, which I FINALLY finished last night.

... reading at least the first 50 pages or so. Otherwise I can't bring myself to give up an unread book. >44 I found The Dante Club to be very poorly written. I kept reading all these reviews that marvelled at the fact that it was written by a 20-year old. Didn't surprise me; it read ...

... I just don't want to go to that place again. I want to read because I love to read. Period. #31: I could not enjoy The Dante Club either. I love Dante. I love mysteries. But I found that book a complete grind.

>31 Deborah - Now I liked The Dante Club, but then I like mysteries. I think the last time I wanted to throw a book against the wall was with Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. I know that most people really love that book, but I just could not stand Lily Bart. At least she got what she ...

... favor of this group. I just can't keep up over there. >22 Haven't read The Quincunx, but I had the same reaction to The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. And anything by Carolly Erickson provokes the same response. Glad to know I'm not the only book thrower around here! I'm not a ...

1. The Fire by Katherine Neville 2. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl 3. Arcana Mundi by Georg Luck 4. Black Market Truth by Sharon Kaye 5. Medicus by Ruth Downie 6. The Night Villa by Carol Goodman 7. Pr ...

I did actually enjoy it (The Dante Club) and I agree that some parts were, as you say, a bit "dense." It took too long to get to the point at times and it seemed as if the author was trying to be too "literary." But for the most part, I was really into it and found it quite interesting. Have you ...

What did you think of The Dante Club? I enjoyed it, but found it very "dense" in parts.

1. The Fire by Katherine Neville 2. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl 3. Arcana Mundi by Georg Luck 4. Black Market Truth by Sharon Kaye 5. Medicus by Ruth Downie 6. The Night Villa by Carol Goodm ...

Starting Off... 1. The Fire by Katherine Neville 2. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl 3. Arcana Mundi by Georg Luck 4. Black Market Truth by Sharon Kaye 5. Medicus by Ruth Downie 6. The Night Villa by Carol Goodman I'll Expand kswolff in Literary Snobs : Personal message board (Jan 13, 2009, 3:50pm)

Maybe Dante was right in making Hell a frozen landscape ;) I guess that's why "fire and brimstone" preachers don't do very well with me. Plus all the rock bands, Gandhi, and Jewish stand-up comics will be in Hell with me. Take that, Rick Warren

So it's back to The Historian for me now and then The Dante Club. Both partially read. After those I'll need a complete change of direction not sure which way I'll go though. I did manage to get an ER book The Cross by Arthur Blessitt which is non-fiction so if it drops on the mat in ...

... Zimmer Bradley 12) Het parsifal mazaïek / The parcifal mosaik - Robert Ludlum Alternate list: 01) De Dante Club / The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl 02) Code Rood / The Firefly - P.T. Deutermann 03) SAS commando - Andy Macnab 04) Een liefde in Afrika / Tomorrow to be brave - Susan Tr ...

... ges 69. The Kingdom Keepers - Ridley Pearson 325 pages 70. By the Book - Nancy Warren 249 pages 71. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl September: 72A. A Far Side Collection: Unnatural Selections - Gary Larson 107 pages 72B. Garfield in Paradise - Jim Davis ...

... by Christopher Brookmyre Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser Marley and Me by John Grogan The Old Curiosity Shop by Charl ...

... 3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4. Shogun by James Clavell 5. The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo 6. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl 7. Emma by Jane Austen 8. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

I'm putting The Dante Club on the back burner for a while, just can't seem to get into it so now I need something else... and that something else is The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Let's see what delights these pages will hold.

... which doubles as an alarm clock, a notepad and pencil, and whichever book I'm reading at the moment. At the moment it's The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl.

I just finished The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl. I found it hard to get into. Fortunately, I brought it with me for plane reading, so I didn't have any choice but to stick it out, and I found it engrossing, if not a little disturbing. The resolution, though, disappointed me, although I ...

Books finishied while traveling 1000 miles over Thanksgiving: #24 The Dante Club ~ Matthew Pearl #25 Mudbound ~ Hillary Jordan #26 The Vacation ~ Polly Horvath #27 My One Hundred Adventures ~ Polly Horvath

... for RL book groups or I never would have picked up the second one. Didn't finish Poe, just couldn't endure it anymore. The Dante Club The Poe Shadow Clunkers I liked Fearless Fourteen The lovely Bones Foreigner The Sword in the Stone Grave Peril Blood Pact ...

#43 TheTortoise I actually enjoyed Dante Club--it has its shortcomings but I found it entertaining and I liked the ways the plot used elements of Inferno for the crimes. But, then I'm a huge Dante fan. As a result of reading the book I bought a beautiful illustrated edition of Longfello ...

>31 Cariola - Oh dear! I recently bought The Dante Club because I thought it sounded so interesting! On the other hand its not as bad as Special Topics, so it can't be all bad! Can it? - TT

... Pessl. I'll admit that I didn't finish it; it was so irritating that I just couldn't. It knocked Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club out of first place for my Most Irritatingly Pretentious Book Ever Prize.

I have a poetry category, and intend to get through one volume of Dante - I think I'll choose the Paradiso, but not sure. Not matter what I choose, i don't expect it to be easy reading, but want to challenge myself with something that's stood everyone's test of time.

Words and Music 22:15 to 23:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long). Wild Wood. The Wild Wood is where to find Danteand Winnie the Pooh. It's where to shelter from the storm and where one is stalked by nameless terror. It's a place for monkish retreat and contemplation, and a place where, according to V ...

... Historian it was soooo boring. Both were book group reads. And I hated both Matthew Pearl's books The Poe Shadow and The Dante Club. I just can't stand his writing. I never finished the Poe book. Again 2 book group reads.

- I've just finished #16 The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Although normally I don't like historical fiction, I still enjoyed this thriller. ...

... now my verdict is that this book makes J.D. Robb look like literature! If you want a really great literary mystery try The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. 42. Greene, Douglas G. & Robert C.S. Adey, editors: Death Locked In: An Anthology of Locked Room Stories (BC 553) This is a ...

So I may as well post the titles of my two all-time most hated books: The Bridges of Madison County The Dante Club #115 I knew enough to avoid that one!

... Pratchett The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

... 2007: 2007 Black Orchids by Rex Stout (New York) The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler (California) The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (Massachusetts) Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (Tennessee) Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Illinois) 2008

... Brown's two popular books are written like he is a 7th grader. The two books by Matthew Pearl, The Poe Shadow and The Dante Club were horribly written. Both were chosen by different book groups I am in. I managed to finish the Dante book, but could not force myself to finish ...

The Dante Club: A Novel by Matthew Pearl

... > 3. The Meaning of Night: A Confession 4. Cyrano de Bergerac 5. The Prestige 6. The Dante Club 7. The Caine Mutiny 8. Cold Sassy Tree

... struggle through a book if I'm curious to see how/if an author will get themselves out of a mess. Loved Matthew Pearl's Dante Club. Was bored silly by the follow-up The Poe Shadow, but kept reading just to see if Pearl could come through in the end.

... Town by Robert Crais (Sept 19.) 5. The Runaway Jury by John Grisham (Sept 29.) 6. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (Okt 6.) 7.The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon (Nov 28.) 8. Black Ice by Michael Connelly (Dec ...

... edition) Heaven and Hell: A Compulsively Readable Compendium of Myth, Legend, Wisdom, and Wit For Saints and Sinners The Dante Club The Gigantic Book of Pirate Stories Now, my challenge is to find space on my shelves for these. Somehow, the 786-page Pirate Stories is a tiny bit ...

... finished The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly, a dark but fun read. The audio book in my car ended today too, The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. It was also good. I sometimes got the characters mixed up though. They all had three names and they were referred to by each ...

I just finished The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber. It was pretty good, and moved quickly. I'm listening to The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl which I'm also enjoying. I just realized now, both of these books use real people as main characters in the books. I kinda like that.

... from another book, and I found that by the time I finished those two, my TBR pile had grown by at least 15 books. Oh, and The Dante Club, which inspired me to pick up The Divine Comedy again and subsequently took up about 6 months of reading time.

... Biblically earlier this year and loved it. I am reading The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell and listening in my car to The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl.

I'm listening to The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl With regard to abridgments, I shake my head every time I'm at the library looking for another audio book. I get excited for the book, I take it off the shelf and see "abridged" on the front and then put it back on the shelf. I would truly ...

... solved, the other I was misled by the red herrings. Reminded me slightly of Larson's Devil in the White City and Pearl's The Dante Club, but not quite up to par. More simplistic style, more like an Agatha Christie maybe. The short chapters and jump in characters and location made for a ...

... Eye of the Needle The Poisonwood Bible The Glass Bead Game How Soccer Explains the World Lucifer's Shadow The Dante Club Rose Daughter Funny in Farsi QB VII Counselors Troubling a Star War Story Death in the Andes Empire of the Ants Gone for Soldiers ...

#82, #83 I couldn't finish it. I haven't felt so strongly negative about a book since I tried to read The Dante Club. In both cases, it seemed to me that the authors were young writers trying way too hard to be clever and original. I had no trouble following the plot, as far as I got, but I ...

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte Lots of things by Edgar Allan Poe

I'm still working my way through The Dante Club, not a difficult read but entertaining. I am itching to start something non-fiction, haven't decided which book yet.

... all, This is probably a random question but I am looking for books that have large vocabulary words in them, for example The Dante Club has words such as pedantic, abhor, etc. Any genre with an interesting story plot is appreciate. Thank you for your help.

... tales and Confessions of an evil stepsister Wicked and Son of a Witch as retellings of The Wizard of Oz The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl A mystery involving Dante scholars

... The Awakening. The Rule of Four is all about a book I'd never heard of before reading it-Hypnerotomachai poliphili. THe Dante Club relates to translating The Divine Comedy, but also to a number of American poets. The Lightning Thief is all about Greek mythology. I'll post more as I ...

... weten, maar ik zal het boek niet snel weer oppakken. Niet uitgelezen... o.a. Nevelen van Avalon, Foucault's pendulum, Dante club en Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

#21 Well, I also had The Dante Club on tape and was listening to it on a drive to DC. it was so bad that I pulled into a rest stop and tossed it into the trash can. I didn't want to subject another human being to that.

The dante club did take forever to get going-the only reason I think I managed is that I was listening to it on a cross-country car trip. So far I haven't given up on any books yet this year, and I'm kicking myself for it. I should have given up on The Memory Keeper's Daughter-the funny ...

#19 I don't know about The Poe Shadow, but Pearl's first novel, The Dante Club, has topped my list of Worst Books I've Ever Attempted to Read for several years--tied with The Bridges of Madison County and now, perhaps, Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

Thanks, fyrefly. I think I'll take your word for it. This one is reminding me of The Dante Club, another one I despised for its overhype and sophomoric pretentions. That one went in the trash as I couldn't bear to subject another human to it. OLD ranch salad dressing on top of a Rollo at ...

I read The Club Dumas a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was reminiscent, in a few ways of Pearl's The Dante Club. I have never seen the movie though.

HaHAAA!! I remembered one I read earlier this year: 48. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. It was a little slow and somewhat convoluted at times, if I remember, but I really enjoyed this literary mystery and hope to read Pearl's next book, The Poe Shadow sometime.

... work, and the paste oozed out from the joins. My wife was amazing--we had a wonderful old illustrated edition of Dante's La Vita Nuova that had the original dust jacket which came apart at the bends. She took the spine and front and rear covers of the jacket and made a slipcase ...

5. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl (Finished Dec 9) 367 pgs I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I had heard that it was good, but that it dragged a bit. I disagree. It was very good and kept me turning pages quickly throughout. It reminded me a bit of The Da Vinci Code only with the writer ...

... Henricks 9)Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling 10)A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr 11)The Dante Club by William Pearl 12)Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling 13)Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling 14)Har ...

... better. In the second half it is easy to see Wolfe setting himself up to write The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now onto: The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

... write research paper on Dante’s Infernousing at least five secondary sources.” Two of the secondary source books were The Dante Club (2006) by Matthew Pearl, and The Dante Game (1992) by Jane Langton. I think it’s interesting that a mystery would be considered as a secondary ...

#92. Try him, I think you'll like him. I would suggest perhaps not starting with the earliest of the series, as the characters were not fully fleshed out at the beginning. I started with a book called "Club" (touchstone won't work), which is still my favorite, although several others are top ...

Finished The Dispossessed (enjoyed it) on a plane ride home , so now working on finishing The Dante Club and Immodest Proposals. Tenn's IP is what I read in bed, so that one may take a while. I also pulled On her own ground : The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles ...

... England by Vanessa McMahon - more like a class book than an average reader's book, but love her illustrations 11. The Dante Club: A Novel by Matthew Pearl - good story but sad about the lack of women and he's not the greatest writer. 12. (for Western Civ class) The Great Train Rob ...

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed The Dante Club, too! I loved the intellectual challenge of finding bits and pieces of Dante's "Divine Comedy" everywhere throughout Matthew Pearl’s Dante Club. But mostly, I fell head-over-heels in love with the opportunity—through the transport magic of ...

What interested you most about The Dante Club, David?

Matthew Pearl has written two books (that I know of anyway) THe Dante Club I found entertaining, interesting and informative. I also found it to be a nicely put together book. The Poe Shadow on the other had I give mixed reviews. On the one had it is entertaining, interesting and ...

welcome, gerbam! >134 -- i will be very interested to hear your thoughts on The Poe Shadow. i loved The Dante Club but couldn't force myself to finish PS despite several attempts. i think it's still sitting with the bookmark in, 50 pages before the end.

... Ghosh Saturday by Ian McEwan Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates Triomf by Marlene Van Niekerk Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholemew I turned ...

... Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope or, with a different approach: The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl The Butterfly Net by Amber Frangos The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck It Begins with Tears by Opal Adisa

This one ended up in a rest stop trash bin: The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. It was a best seller and got great reviews. Critics raved that they couldn't believe a college student had written it. Really? I teach college English, and I thought it read like bad sophomore writing. Not to ...

49. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl In post civil war Boston, a group of literary figures forms a club to prepare an English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in order to introduce Dante to America. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell H ...

... high school), I think the best English translation is the one by Allen Mandelbaum. I recommend it. How do you like The Dante Club? I confess I gave it up after a couple hundred pages. Perhaps I should give it another try.....

... any recommendations as to which is the "best" translation? I know it's a very subjective question. I'm just finishing The Dante Club : a novel right now, just in case you all are curious as to why the sudden renewed interest. :)

... Club - Donald Zochert Death of an Honourable Member - Ray Harrison The Pump House Gang - Tom Wolfe The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Camel Club by David Baldacci The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud by Julia Navarro Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy

I'm one of those multi-readers. I'm currently somewhere in the middle of: Devil in the White City Band of Brothers The Dante Club ...and wow, I guess that's all! It's usually more like 5. :-D

I'm currently reading The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. I've raelly gotten into it, and I want to start dante'sdivine comedy afterwards. I've read Inferno, but I'd like to get to reading his other canticles as well.

Most recently I purchased Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl, Moon Called By Patricia Briggs, The Radon File by Denise Vitola and Myths for the Modern Age by Win Scott Eckert.

... Craig, Jane Langton, Margaret Miles, Dianne Day, Cynthia Peale (the last three being historical), also The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl.

... were others I didn't care for, but I can't recall what they were at the moment. Edited to add: The Last Templar and The Dante Club

... two speculative novels on different periods in Edgar A. Poe's life. The Poe Shadow is by Daniel Pearl who wrote The Dante Club, and covers the last few days of Poe's life, or rather the investigation of the last days. Clark, an avid Poe fan is convinced that there is something ...

I have to second the Dante Club suggestion. It's an interesting slice of Cambridge and Boston history with a little bit of mystery thrown in as well. Pearl takes historical events surrounding Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and Dante scholar J.T. Fields and turns them into ...

... The Hub: Boston Past and Present. If you like mysteries/literary thrillers set in Boston, Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club is excellent.

I read The Dante Club two years ago (bought and read it while on vacation in Venice actually), and I think it was after reading it I went on to read the divine comedy. The first version I read was actually a Norwegian edition (I think it's the only available edition) which only included 34 ...

Just finished The Dante club by Matthew Pearl and enjoyed it despite a slow start (I read a couple of other things at the same time - it wasn't a 'can't put down' kind of book). Am reading Under the banner of heaven by Jon Krakauer and The Geographer's library by Jon Fasman, but ...

I also loved the Dante Club, and Shadow of the Wind and would like to add to your list The Haunted Bookshop and Reading Lolita in Tehran. I loved both of them too! I'm going to look for The Book Thief. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in enjoying book about books!

Putting all the classics aside, this year my favorites include, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl and The Turtle Warrior by Mary Ellis Relindes. As I read the first two, one non-fiction, the other fiction I was struck by the fact that I felt ...

... high school and most of college, I never had actually read or studied the work. It was after reading Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club, which I absolutely devourted, that I decided I had to read the real thing, and did (using the Longfellow translation first and then some others). Now I'm ...

Yes, The Dante Club was a touch dry, all in all - drier than Eco's The Name of the Rose, which I admired as authentically "medieval". But I hope you enjoy Bayard! I was wrong about Bayard only having written two books - he's written four in total! But only two historical mysteries so far.

Finally someone else who didn't completely adore The Dante Club! The one thing I really enjoyed about it was the revelation of the killer's identity (because it made me think, "Oooh, why didn't I see it myself?!"). It seemed to be trying too hard to be Umberto Eco -- not one of my favourite ...

... Allen Poe: for these reasons, I thought they wouldn't mind sharing a thread :) In a nutshell, my thoughts are: PEARL: The Dante Club - great revelation of the killer's identity, great evocation of what led him/her to kill, but a leaden prose style and an unforgivable "red herring" who was ...

... others that are more non-fiction: Brunelleschi's Dome & Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, both by Ross King The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl- Actually about literary works, as opposed to artistic works...but very similar in style and appeal. Murder mystery set in early new ...

I'm reading Nancy Mitford's The pursuit of love as well as The Dante club which I posted about before. I adored this from the first page. Witty and sharp, about an upper class English family in the 1930s, many of whose members you really couldn't like, and allegedly based on Mitofrd's own ...

amateras, I agree with PDeebs - while both are good, I was totally enthralled by The Dante Club and only mildly so by The Poe Shadow. I'd certainly recommend both though, they're very interesting. The thing I really enjoyed about Poe Shadow was the archival work that Pearl did with it; the ...

Hi, amateras. I've read both the Matthew Pearl books, and in my opinion The Dante Club is the better book. The premise of The Poe Shadow is fascinating, but I found myself pulled out of the story by abrupt changes in focus and plot devices that made no sense at all. I thought that it read ...

Has anyone read either The Poe Shadow or The Dante Club? I'd be interested in knowing opinions on these books (both by Matthew Pearl).

... me). Am currently reading Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black for a book group I have recently joined, and Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club. Nice to meet you all.