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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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Sep 11, 2019 Wendy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: pbs-great-american-read, 2019-reads

Oscar Wilde never disappoints with his witticisms and creative characters. I found myself chuckling aloud as I read many of the lines. I especially enjoyed Lord Henry's outlook on life and found him to be entertaining to read about. His funny lines include:

"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

"My dear Dorian, the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible intere ...more

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Aug 15, 2018 Melanie rated it liked it

I have constantly been hearing about this book and thought I would take the time to read it. I pretty much knew the story before reading it. Hard to get into because I really didn't like Dorian. It is a classic and one that we should be paying more attention to because we have become more and more like Dorian as this book ages. ...more

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Feb 19, 2011 Hettie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: format-e-book, classics, top-100-fantasy, read-2011

I went into this book with some preconceived ideas of the storyline. Only from the league of extraordinary gentlemen but enough that I though I new what the story was going to be.

I think many people know the basic story line so I will not repeat it here. I really enjoyed the basic plot of the story and it did provide surprises - don't expect a film were Dorain Grey plays a mall part to reflect what will happen in a book.

I did not enjoy all the speeches from Lord Henry however. There were some cl ...more

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