The book I read is illustrated by Sandow Birk, with text adapted by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sandes. It is special because modern words are used, and the author even replaced characters, places and events with modern ones at their well. The illustrations are supposed to be the big selling point: all drawings use San Francisco (and sometimes LA?) as background.
When I read the first several chapters, I thought it was very funny. I had read about 14 chapters of Inferno from a normal translation, and had thought it very boring. So I appreciated this funny "adaptation". However, when I kept reading, this book became more and more boring. The repeating of the same funny tricks did not work.
My conclusion is that Dante's work is really really boring. Homer's work is years and years earlier, but is far far better than Dante. Jia said that I have to recognize that fact that Dante wrote in the dark age. Well, this is true, but it can't change the fact that his work is extremely boring.
published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco. 2004. ISBN 0811842134.
The book uses very good quality paper.
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