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by Bruguru  in Books,  - Top 50, Feb 04 '04
Pros: Elegant prose, thought provoking ideas.
Cons: No admirable characters.
Beauty is a form of genius-is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. So speaks Lord Henry, the cynical, superfluous, and callous gadfly to the protagonist Dorian Gray in Irish author Oscar Wilde’s only novel, The ...
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by mike.holmes in Books, - Top 500, Aug 16 '05
Pros: Beautiful prose with a message for all of us
Cons: A little wordy in a few places
After seeing a classic movie, Spencer Tracy's "Dr. Jeykl and Mr. Hyde,", I decided to read the "book" on which it was based. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, it was actually a novella. That experience of reading a classic brought about a desire to ...
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by joshg2fl , Aug 05 '04
Pros: Interesting idea for a story.
Cons: It's a little dark.
What you have waiting below for you are reasons why I liked The Picture of Dorian Gray. They may or may not be the reasons you’d have for liking (or disliking) the book. But, if I’m successful in what follows, you’ll be able to use ...
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by johngo , Apr 26 '04
Pros: Historically interesting.
Cons: Critically over-rated.
In returning to The picture of Dorian Gray after rereading A rebours I became increasingly irritated as I read it. The book begins with a collection of windy aphorisms collected together in a preface. The aphorisms are disconnected, ...
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by morela10 , Apr 24 '01
Pros: Entertaining, summarizes the philosophy of the era
Cons: not a beach book
One of the critical conflicts of British society, evolving along with the very identity of Britain and peaking during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, has been the conflict between appearance and self, that gap between how one is and...
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by beesperanto , Aug 10 '03
Pros: Beautifully written, universal message
Cons: None
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is set during the late 19th century England, the late Victo ...
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by waseom , Feb 19 '04
Pros: Stimulating and enlightening. A beautifully woven tale.
Cons: Slow at a couple of places.
The first point to make would be that if you saw the movie LXG, Dorian Gray is weakly and badly portrayed in that fiasco. This novel is truly one of the most stimulating of all time. Next to The Catcher in the Rye, a very different yet ...
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by misharenu99 , Jul 20 '01
Pros: Entertaining, Provocative, Fairly Brief, Interesting characters
Cons: Drags around the middle
The first thirty pages of this book are extremely entertaining. Wilde provides a "Paradise Lost" garden in which we first meet the three main characters of the story (Basil Howard, Dorian Gray & Lord Henry Wotton).
This was my second...
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by PoeticLegend , Nov 11 '00
Pros: Witty, beautiful, a literary masterpiece.
Cons: Most critiquing of life, than real action, not necessarily a drawback, unless you're looking for an exciting plot.
This book changed my life, as it took all the horrible things I knew to be true about life and put them into poetry. Reading this book leaves you with a feeling of glamour and pomp, as it's witty and scathing cynicism about the nature of humans...
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