I'm about to read this. What am I in for, /lit/? After reading

>>8527479
its boring

I have the john ciardi edition, but I feel it's the sort of book that requires annotations, so I feel I'd need to buy the norton critical edition or something.

>>8527479
>tfw John and Dante are the only 2 humans to ever have visited heaven

>>8527507
and Enoch

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>>8527490
>its boring

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But is it funny? I heard that pic related is actually from Inferno. thats pretty hilarious. It is a comedy after all, r-right guyz?

>>8527479
What translation?

The single worst classic to ever worm its ways into the western canon outside of any thing written by Charles Dickens. On average, its about as vulgar as a /b/ post and even less insightful, any good prose is lost in its age, translation, and initial bad quality

>>8527534
>>8527534
no

>>8527491
My copy is also a Ciardi translation but contains extensive footnotes. One doesn't neceasarily have anything to do with the other.

>>8527765
are you baiting?

>>8527479
It's *not* funny, but it *is* the single greatest work ever written by man. So there's that.

>>8527765
>prose

>>8527479
That's very funny, op. Great thread.