The Picture of Dorian Gray - Chapters 1-5

[Meghan]

Angie - the book people are referring to comes later (in Chapters 6-10).

[Robbie]

I just finished Chapter 5 last night. I'm really enjoying this. I'm enjoying the snarkiness. And, I don't take offense to the comments about women, because they seem quite appropriate to LH's character. (They also remind me of things a guy I used to hang out with would say--as Meghan said, there is often a little ring of truth in there. That makes it funny to me.)

I like that the language is modern. Again, as Meghan said earlier, I'm not too fond of Austen etc. because of the language.

I though it was very interesting that Wilde died at the age of 46. Although he apparently died of meningitis (I think) and not of suicide, something tells me that he might have been glad that he wouldn't grow old.

If I didn't already know about Dorian's future of sinful acts, I might have been envisioning a sweet romance between him and Sybil.

I'm not ordinarily an underliner of quotes, but I liked two especially. One was the one about brute intellect that Meghan metioned in one of the first quotes.

The other is: "I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. I cannot sympathize with that...The less said about life's sores the better."

[Meghan]

Ooohhh nice point Robbie! I didn't realize Wilde had died so young. Seems rather fitting (or ironic) considering this was his most infamous book and the subject matter within.

And didn't Lord Henry (or Dorian) mention something about it being better to be poor than dull? One wonders if LH was referring to the author indirectly.