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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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March 2017: Ireland > The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - ★★★

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message 1: by Flo (new) - rated it 3 stars

Flo (daredeviling) | 243 comments I feel like I liked this less than the first time I read it, although I might not have been in the right frame of mind to read this. I only read this for my book club's March theme ('Ireland'), so my mind was actually wanting to read something else and I just wanted to finish this book.

I still found the story interesting, and I really enjoyed the premise and all that. There were just some bits that got overly philosophical and one chapter that felt like it would never end, and none of the characters were fleshed out, which I suppose is not the point of this kind of book, but is always very important to me. If I can't connect to the characters, then it is hard for me to get into a book at all.

Also as an aside, I approved of all the gay. c:


Anita Pomerantz | 9306 comments I have to agree with that one never ending chapter needing to be on the chopping block, but otherwise I liked it a bit more than you.

I didn't talk about the underlying homosexual themes in my review, but they were subtle enough that I wasn't sure sometimes whether or not I was imagining them or reading into it - - apparently not!


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