There was so much that I just hated about The Picture of Dorian Gray! I hated all of the characters except Basil (and he wasn't in the story that much, otherwise I'd have probably hated him, too), I hated the structure and pacing of this story, and I wasn't overly enamored of the writing, to be per...
I first had read this when I was in the 8th form, at school. Always ready to reread classics especially a famous one. it's like a new adventure with reminding of school-days.
I decided to read this book because I liked everything I’ve read of the autor so far. At first I didn’t like it, it seemed very dense and even boring to read. But, when I reached the middle of the book, the plot was much more compelling and I was more interested to the point of being unable to stop...
Wilde's flowery prose, (over)loaded with sensuous details, gives the impression of having been written, appropriately, for the author's own pleasure. The tale is clever, and ultimately morally simplistic, though Wilde's sympathies seem to lie chiefly with the devilish, amoral tempter Lord Henry. Per...
To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. It's times like these when I'm glad that I rate books apples-to-apples. If the exact same characters from The Picture of Dorian Gray had shown up in a modern day book, I might have considered pulling a DNF. But I am glad that I stuck with it bec...
Read in kindle/Audible through Whispersync/immersion reading. Fabulous one-liners interspersed in dialogue throughout the book. "Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. " "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." "To get back my ...
This book was less of a horror novel than I expected, after reading the summary for it. The ending was probably the most interesting part of the whole book. It's odd that Dorian had wanted to be forever young but after only 20 years he went a little mad with it. I wonder how different he might have ...
A friend of mine was shocked, shocked that I'd never read Oscar Wilde, a great favorite of hers. She virtually twisted my arm to read this novel NOW. Since I do trust her literary tastes, after duly resisting I gave this a try. My first reaction was that the style was gorgeous and sensuous without e...
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