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Review of
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics)
He cried. |
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 Considering the age of this book, I was quite mislead by the term 'cry/cried' throughout. A lesser educated person would have been ravaged with mind-boggling confusion.I have a knack for writing down favourite quotes from the books I read. I couldn't do that with this text. This is by far the most beautifully written book I have ever laid my short-sighted eyes on. Every page had so much detail and wonder that I was close to jotting nearly all of it down on a seperate pad of paper. Oscar Wilde has my full respect and I intend to read more of his work. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a tale trekking the life, beauty and scandal of Dorian G: as a young man he is picked up by a moderate & not so talented artist. The artist has found his muse in Gray and creates one of the greatest portraits of his career by modelling him. The picture alone captures the essence of DG's astounding and blessed good looks. After seeing it, DG wishes that his good looks would never fade, like the painting before him. As time goes by, his wish becomes more and more true. Yet there is a price to pay for a wish as grand as his. I struggled toward the middle of the book because of its tendency to dribble about how special one man is by his good looks alone. It has very little links to modern beauty but the right to ones soul has always been the pricetag for it. I also felt a sense of culture when I commuted on the train to work whilst reading it. I was reading a novel by Oscar Wilde, they were reading shit rags like the London Lite. Anyone who loves the beauty of words and language should earn a copy of this book. The enlightened out there should never skip this step. 8/10 Comments |
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'I like men with a future and women with a past'
'Punctuality is the thief of time'
'A man who calls a spade a spade should be compelled to use one, its all he's good for'
But I agree..it is very very good book.
"I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself."
I think I just need to sort out my issues with all consuming obsession and desire... seems to be bit too large a theme in literature and films of my liking.
Wilde's wisdom will never be out of touch for any generation;
"Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot . . . "