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  <title><![CDATA[The Dante Club: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;b&gt;The New York Times Bestseller  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante&amp;#8217;s &lt;b&gt;Inferno&lt;/b&gt;. Only an elite group of America&amp;#8217;s first Dante scholars&amp;#8212;Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields&amp;#8212;can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante&amp;#8217;s literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Trade Paperback edition.&lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Matthew Pearl]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This marvelous book is a superlative example of numerous genres: historical fiction and mystery being two examples. While the premise of engaging famous historical figures in a mystery is intriguing, Pearl never allows this element to drive the narrative.  His characterizations of Longfellow, Holmes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2182053">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 02 08:51:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This author sure does name drop: &quot;Dante&quot;, &quot;Harvard&quot;, etc. Granted, I read this book because of that Dante name drop, even though I don't really like murder mystery type novels. (Consider that my disclaimer.) It's an attempt at an intelligent book that, despite the author's bio, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29618252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9071198">
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 13 15:12:07 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 06 09:35:23 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is the reason you should never buy a book just because the cover says it's a New York Times Bestseller.  It's a badly-constructed murder mystery set in Boston, in which a group of famous poets bands together to stop a series of murders inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy -- think Da Vinci C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9071198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28983171">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 01 10:30:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 05 14:00:39 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Dante Club is a wonderful debut novel from Matthew Pearl. It is the story of the Fireside Poets - Henry Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell - who initially form the Dante Club to assist Longfellow in finishing the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's Commedia Divina.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28983171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7062985">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone  (except for kids under 15 years old, i think)]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 30 21:21:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 30 21:22:22 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book reached number 1 on Border's, Washington Post, and Boston Globe best seller lists, and also New York Times Best Seller List. The genre is fictional mystery.<br/><br/><br/>This book has a strong relation with Dante's DIVINA COMEDIA (Divine Comedy).<br/><br/>You don't have to read the Di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7062985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7871510">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 17 21:41:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 18 14:59:46 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When my friend was describing the book to me and read one of the quotes about the book on the cover, I asked, &quot;Who gave that review? Dan Brown?&quot; Yup.<br/><br/>It's a lot like the Da Vinci Code. A pretty good crime novel with some interesting historical and literary info tossed in, but ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7871510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3946086">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Aug 19 19:12:02 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a murder mystery that takes place in Boston just after the Civil War.  The murders revolve around Dante's Inferno, and a group of Dante scholars are the only people who may be able to find the killer. For a while I couldn't figure out why I wasn't really into the novel, and by the end, it fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3946086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16220694">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 23 21:21:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 23 22:28:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was at a show (as in indie rock, guitar and drums and beer) in a faraway city [this did not happen in Seattle, although you would expect it to, since this town is so flippin' small], it was past midnight, I think it was the 8th or 9th band we had seen that day, and a person who had joined our grou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16220694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1082273">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 06 18:06:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it took me two tries, but I finally managed to get past the disgusting maggots at the beginning.  Note: do not read this book while eating.<br/><br/>I found this book to be quite interesting and full of incredibly vivid descriptions that I would have called beautiful if the subject matter ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1082273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16216034">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Save yourself some time and read Dante's &quot;Inferno&quot; instead.]]></body>
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    <review id="24981911">
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 20 08:58:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 20 09:40:02 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting literary thriller.  <br/>The main characters in this are the great 19th century 'Fireside Poets', namely Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Olver Wendell Holmes, and three other lesser-known men (James Russell Lowe, George Washington Greene, and JT Fields, their publisher).  They are prepar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24981911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12875101">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 18 18:52:54 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 25 16:05:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A cool premise mired in humdrumery and bludgemongering.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and their publisher J.T. Fields comprise the Dante Club, a group of Harvard scholars who are attempting to birth the first American translation of Dante's Divine Comed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12875101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8199981">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 24 16:37:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly 3.5/5<br/>A series of murders takes place in the late 1800s in Boston which are inspired by the book Dante’s inferno.  I assume that if you are familiar with Dante’s inferno and enjoy it,  you would appreciate this book all the more.  I thought it was very well-written and a great murd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8199981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7887168">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 17 09:43:16 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a serial murder mystery in historical Boston where literary types (a small group of famous American writers and poets) translate and promote the translation of American/English-language editions of Dante's writings while battling the politics of a conservative Harvard review board. It is wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7887168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9950690">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 04 17:00:51 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a mystery.  good mysteries leave clues that the reader may or may not pick up on.  but the clues lead logically to the killer.  this is not a good mystery.  the investigation takes wild jumps from one clue to the next.  and such clues don't narrow down who the likely culprit is.  the main ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9950690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1561721">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 31 10:20:23 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 31 10:25:24 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished this book...<br/>It was refreshing. I was reading some very bad books recently,books which make me fall asleep half way. But this was different..<br/>So what is the story?<br/><br/>It is about a club called the Dante Club,which has as members poets and Harvard professors Henry Wads...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1561721">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="261783">
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    <body><![CDATA[A series of brutal murders is taking place in post-Civil War Boston, leaving victims brutally in respective scenes from Dante's Inferno (The Divine Comedy).  Not yet released in English, the only way anyone could know about the specifics of the murders is if they know Italian, are educated, OR have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/261783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up at a great bookstore in Seattle, Eliott Bay Books. It was on the staff picks shelf - and I couldn’t resist the premise: a bunch of poets and academics in 19th century Boston (including Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell) are engaged in a surreptitious tran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5396376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So a major fan of literature, murder and mystery should love this book right? Well thats what I thought too but I struggled with this one and couldnt wait to finish it..Its not that the book isnt great or doesnt have potential it is just too verbose and tedious..The book has alot of words and descri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29092543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was suspicious of this book at first-- there's a lot I love about Dante, as well as the auspicious American poets who are the main characters in this book.  How could a work of fiction do justice to them?<br/>Well, if anything, the book seems to know that it cannot <em>quite</em> do justice to its subject...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6754679">more...</a>]]></body>
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