Jonathan’s Reviews > The Picture of Dorian Gray > Status Update
Jonathan
is 99% done
not gay enough, sadly (i know it was scandalous). loved the premise, did not enjoy conflation of cruelty with ugliness; dorian could have lived his life aging in grace & beauty, unsuspected, despite how terrible of a person he was without the painting. a lot of this felt like padding (which it seems it was?), and the pacing seemed off due to it. ending felt too dogmatic about the book's message :/ fic was also eh :/
— Apr 20, 2026 12:52PM
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Jonathan
is 64% done
... guess who forgot why they didn't touch wilde for many years (it's the antisemitism, good grief). that aside i do not recall any of this at all, it's not even ringing a faint bell, so i must have never read it before?
— Apr 04, 2026 07:14AM
Jonathan
is 8% done
rereading so i can read a fic based on it and judge its execution informedly (the things i do for fic (but also i haven't read it in twenty years so naturally remember nothing at all))
— Apr 02, 2026 01:51PM
