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title: "In the Hand of Dante: A Novel"
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# In the Hand of Dante: A Novel

**Brand:** nick tosches
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    very well written tale
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2014*

An intricate tale of Dante and a modern story of discovery, crime, and murder. Erudite and well researched on Dante's life and times.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Quite an arduous reading experience
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2007*

I read Nick Tosches' In the Hand of Dante a month or two ago, and I've been putting off this review ever since.  Actually, I wasn't even sure I wanted to attempt a review because my opinions of the novel are rather ambivalent and, frankly, I didn't get a whole lot out of the experience.  This is the kind of book that makes me think I should like it more than I actually do.  After all, it's literary and deep (sometimes) and brought to life by a true wordsmith.  Honestly, though, I found myself floundering through many a section of the story, and I've already forgotten more than I ever knew about what I was reading.On the one hand, you've got the author inserting himself into the story as the protagonist.  Due to his association with some shady, underground, fairly despicable people, he ultimately gets his hands on a long-lost original copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy.  This is where the action of the book can be found, replete with lots of adults-only language, a few doses of brutality, and the blood of a string of murder victims.  Alongside this story, however, is Tosches' take on Dante's own journey - seeking to tap into something deep and eternal, I guess.  As I said, I got very little at all out of this section of the book.  It moves along at a glacial pace, sells out to pretentiousness early on, and made the simple turning of each page something of an internal struggle.  It doesn't help that Tosches apparently sought to use every word in the dictionary at least once, resulting in literary speed bump after speed bump.  I'm an intelligent, well-educated fellow, and I was constantly running up against words I could not define (and had I chosen to seek out the definition of each one, I would surely still be trying to finish this novel all these weeks later).  Using "big words" is no sin, of course, especially if the author actually knows what those words mean, but in Tosches' case I got the strong impression that he was just trying to show the reader how darn smart he thinks he is.  That doesn't make for a good impression among many readers, and it puts to ruin Tosches' otherwise impressive writing style.Despite what I found to be a remarkably promising story idea, In the Hand of Dante just didn't do anything for me.  The only memorable passage in the whole book is the one many other reviewers have mentioned: Tosches' no-holds-barred attack on the publishing industry.  That made for pretty gripping reading, but everything else left me quite nonplussed.  I can't for the life of me figure out how this became a national bestseller, as I doubt many casual readers will make it past the first 50 pages.  Only the most serious and dedicated of readers will want to tackle this novel.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    especially if you like books that challenge the mainstream
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2017*

Tosches' most mind-twisting book IMHO.  Really needs to be read carefully.  But it's immensely rewarding, especially if you like books that challenge the mainstream.  And it's actually a good story rather than just a philosophical manifesto masquerading as a novel.The copy I received was perfect except for the magnetic anti-theft device that's permanently glued to the third page.  Wish that hadn't happened.

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