As much as I admire Wilde, his constant use of epigrams drives me nuts. I find it detracts from the point he tries to make. Sure, some them have remained memorable but I rarely remember them for the context of the story they were supposed to support. And some of them are just ... generalisations that are forced to sound witty but have very little substance.

I agree, the jokes work better in a script than in this fiction.

I did not know there was an audio version narrated by Fry, omg. I know how the re-read of this book will happen now.