Re-read in May 2013.I don't remember why I liked this so much when I was younger. Maybe it appeals more to teenagers with the emotional turmoil and all this?Now, I was annoyed and a bit bored by the long monologues which transported all the philosophical beliefs and statements. Aestheticism is not m...
To be honest I'm not even near eloquent enough to do The Picture of Dorian Gray justice. It is a wonderful book containing spot-on descriptions and commentary of life of the upper class during the nineteenth century. Unspoiled and pure Dorian Gray becomes acquainted with Lord Henry through painter B...
My oh my.Another standard by which to judge other authors.At the age of 43, I've finally gotten to Wilde (aside from his delightful children's tales) after many years of the "I'll get to him, I'll get to him, stop bothering me" stage. I wish you all hadn't stopped bothering me. Reading this at 23 mi...
PODG gets unde3r your skin in a way, without you knowing it. I've read it a few times and have to read it again. It reminds me of the phrase monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo. [“monster in face, monster in soul”] which I think I read originally in Twilight Of The Idols but it is attributed to So...
Review courtesy of Reading Project 2015.Welp, this is a classic.Never has the word tremulous fluttered so gaily and so often upon the page.Look, it's kind of camp and exquisite and over-wrought and gothic as hell.It may, in fact, be just about perfect. An ornate jewel of book.Also epigrams.I don't h...
I had a bit of a sinking feeling after the first few chapters of this book. The style at the start is light and witty with lots of drawing-room banter, but so much so that it becomes aphoristic to a fault. "Being natural is simply a pose"; "I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredibl...
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