# 5: The Dante Club

A Novel by Matthew Pearl.

I was looking for a page-turner, a Da-Vinci Code type book. So I heard about Rule of 4 and the Dante Club. Finally got around to reading the latter.

Summary: A disappointment.

First of all it took forever to actually get into the book. I had to force myself to focus, the first 70 pages are really rough. Finally managed to push ahead and then entered a reasonable rhythm and was able to knock it out.

I'll remember the relaxing weekend in Wedbley island much more than the book itself. Except for the dogs, but that is a whole other story.

Anyway, not much to say about the book - I was not seduced by the historical characters, especially since apart from the existence of the Dante Club, everything else was fictionalized. The murder mystery was also sort of poor, I guess that at the end I didn't really care who did it.

However, it did make me want to pick up Dante once again, but with my own personal (on-line?) Virgil, or else most of the references get lost in the shuffle.