A review by traveltounravel
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

It took me nearly 3 years to complete (quite fittingly) after taking a long sabbatical from the story near the end of Purgatorio. Its structure is remarkable & unmatched, incomprehensibly creative & complex, yet most of Paradiso can be mindbogglingly boring with Dante often saying, "Everything is so beautiful, all the light, I can't describe any of it!" yet never being short on words for the darkness of hell (I suppose on Earth we are more familiar with the likes of Hell than Heaven). Without literary notes and guides, good luck understanding half the references. Also, Dante finished writing it around 1320, and used closer calculations for the circumference of the Earth than Christopher Columbus did 170 years later so congrats Columbus, you're an idiot and a genocidal murderer. This review took a turn...