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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Start date: January 1, 2010

Finish date: January 31, 2010

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May 21, 2011 Sarazen rated it really liked it

I'm still working my way through an audiobook version of this, and Woo doggie I just gotta say that's some nice misogyny with that misogyny. Lordy.

Wrestling with self...so conflicted...so much offensive in this book...but so INCREDIBLE. OMG! It's great! it's great! And it burns so much!

***Review*** I finally got this one fully under my belt, and I gotta say that's a great place for it. It took some time for me to let this one settle before I could expand on this here review.

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May 15, 2009 Bucket rated it really liked it

Shelves: magical-realism, 1001-read-all-editions, literary, philosophy, classic, reviewed, tragedy, good-v-evil, identity

This is a dark, dark book with an interesting premise. If our sins and years didn't blemish us, would we become totally evil? The answer seems to be yes, however, even the eternally youthful Dorian is demonized by his sins and eventually driven to destroy himself. In some ways, this story is about how the outside of a person doesn't always reflect the inside. Henry was an interesting character - able to corrupt Dorian so easily, but not quite evil himself.

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