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Recursion - November 2019 - Thriller/Suspense
By Katrisa · 3 posts · 11 views
By Katrisa · 3 posts · 11 views
last updated Feb 29, 2020 12:32AM
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You can certainly tell that Wilde was mostly a playwright when this novel was written. It could be easily adapted with very little changes as it is largely dialogue and internal monologue with most of the 'action' being relayed second hand.
Nevertheless, it was a chilling gothic tale which really encaptured upper-class Victorian London and is a biting commentary of superficiality and morality (or lack of) within this class.
It also had some surprisingly gruesome passages that I wasn't expecting. ...more
Nevertheless, it was a chilling gothic tale which really encaptured upper-class Victorian London and is a biting commentary of superficiality and morality (or lack of) within this class.
It also had some surprisingly gruesome passages that I wasn't expecting. ...more
Happy Pride Month or whatever. Someone told me "oh Dorian and Basil are just really good friends" mhm yes Basil is definitely blindly in love.
That was a real rollercoaster read my god. I have never read a book by Oscar Wilde and the only I thing I know about him was his affair with Sir Alfred Douglas. And he was sent to jail for it. Very interesting fact from AP Lit lol. I can't get over how it took one really pleasurable experience to send Dorian into a spiral and how in the end, even though h ...more
That was a real rollercoaster read my god. I have never read a book by Oscar Wilde and the only I thing I know about him was his affair with Sir Alfred Douglas. And he was sent to jail for it. Very interesting fact from AP Lit lol. I can't get over how it took one really pleasurable experience to send Dorian into a spiral and how in the end, even though h ...more
Sep 19, 2016
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