Posted by almondjoy on October 31, 2003, at 20:05:38
In reply to What is everyone reading right now?, posted by Searchlight on October 9, 2003, at 19:27:06
"The Inferno of Dante Alighieri" a new translation by Diaran Carson...I had to read it for class (a 100 level Western Civ=boring!) but this turned out to be the best we've read so far (out of Plato's "Symposium" and Marcus Aurelius' "Meditation" [supersuck!]) Its a new (2002) translation by an Irish poet, and though I haven't read any other translations, I heard it's one of the best.
Also, at the end of "Just Cause" by john katzenbach, and the beginning of "Cry the Beloved Country"" by Alan Paton, (I love to read books that have been made into movies way after I've seen them, instead of the book first, remember few images and the book is always better but the movie isn't ruined) and just finished a Richard Wright book.
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