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Men, Women, Dante, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
April 12, 2013
On the Shelf
GQ
suggested
the books every man should read.
So then Flavorwire
amended their list
.
You could, of course, also stick to
Robert Frost’s favorite books
. (If you like the classics.)
Women, meanwhile, get stuck with
awful titles
.
“Dan Brown’s forthcoming
Inferno
, of which Dante will be the central subject, has already got me trembling. Brown might have discovered that the
Divine Comedy
is an encrypted prediction of how the world will be taken over by the National Rifle Association. When the movie comes out, with Harrison Ford as Dante and Megan Fox as Beatrice, it will be all over for mere translators.” Clive James,
by the book.
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