Reviews for Days out

The average rating for Days out based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-12-23 00:00:00 Daniel Callahan My current obsession with Dante's Divine Comedy led me straight to reading as many of his writings I could get my hands on. The first point that drew me to this book was not only it's format (a series of poems used as "letters" between Dante and a circle of his friends but the inclusion of the Vita Nuova, which more fully explains his Beatrice (and what she represents) than The Divine Comedy. There are plenty of other places to find the analysis of these texts and Dante himself as a writer so I will not do that here. I will say, however that the poetry has an almost classical focus on love, character, and circumstance. The outlay of the text moves in a linear framework such that at the beginning the words are of sweetness and rendezvous before collapsing into the bitter realities of political machinations, intrigue, and exile. A span of men's lives captured in verse and immortalized, Dante and His Circle is a definite must-read.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-11-12 00:00:00 Jason Ridley King Arthur. Myth, legend, reality we would never know about what he is. But we do know this. A tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table. King Arthur lives in a world where magic is real and technology is not. King Arthur is a king that was chosen to move out of the royal family at a small age. Later when there was no king, a sword appeared on the rock that said that the person who pulled the sword out of the rock was worthy of the king. King Arthur got the sword out of the rock and became king. Merlin, the man who chose to move him out of the royal family, mentored him to be a great king. Unfortunately, that is not where the story ends. One mistake triggers another one to lead to an unpredictable ending.