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Slow start, but I'm into it now.

Omg. Both men are going to be Christened Earnest now. This is hilarious. I'm going to have to watch the movie after this!

"Hasn’t a Jew got eyes? Hasn’t a Jew got hands, organs, limbs, senses, likes and dislikes, passions? Fed with the same food, injured by the same weapons, vulnerable to the same diseases, healed by the same medicine, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die?"
THAT's where the line is from?!

"What says this leaden casket?
“Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.”
Must give, for what? For lead? Hazard for lead!"

Yeah. It's totally the lead one. Kudoos to dad! I thought he was being kind a rando crazy jerk, but he wants his daughter's husband to be willing to give all her has to her. Still kind of crazy. But not a jerk.

Omg. Bruiser is amazing. I love him so bad. AND he's bi??! Please, please let him have his own book.

"I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning"
This situation sounds SUPER familiar. Did I read this and forget? Or maybe I've seen a parody or something..... hmmm.......

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Youth! There is nothing like it."

Frigg'n dammit. I hate that I still like Henry despite him being such an utter bastard.

"They have had my own divorce-case and Alan Campbell’s suicide"

NOOOOOOO!!!! Basil! Now Alan? Will nothing tear down this walking deathtrap called Dorian?

"“What do you mean? Wasn’t he one of your men?”

“No, sir. Never saw him before. Seems like a sailor, sir.”"

Noooo. It's Vane. Vane is dead. DAMN IT!!! Is Dorian going to get away with everything?! If Oscar Wilde does this to me I will hate him forever.

BASIL!!! NOOOOO! 😭

"monstrous or mad: Filippo, Duke of Milan, who slew his wife and painted her lips with a scarlet poison that her lover might suck death from the dead thing he fondled"
Holy f***. O_O What is this yellow book? I forget what this started being about. This book sounds so well- monstrously mad. As horrified as I am, I kind of want to read it....

" An hour later he was at the opera, and Lord Henry was leaning over his chair."
Typical man. Lost his resolve in the matter of seconds. This book definitely has misogynistic vibes, but my gosh is it making me hate men!

"Surely his wish had not been fulfilled? Such things were impossible. It seemed monstrous even to think of them."
Which is why I don't know what the hell to make of this novel!! Is it horror? Is this black magic? Cause Lord Henry is terrifying!! Also, is it the fujoshi in me or are all the guys gay for each other?

Ok. Harry is starting to scare me a little. What is happening???

Ok. Lord Harry is the favorite. All hail Harry.

No, no. Say it ain't so. It's almost 80% in. I thought we'd be wrapping up to the hea. Not revealing a cheating scandal. Say you didn't do it! Noooooooo!

34% DNF. As expected I'm bored of the plot. I don't feel excited about reading on at this point. I kind of miss the short story format. So many different POV's telling the same story kind of annoyed me too. I just wanted them to get to the point of the story but it was taking forever transitioning from Dandelion to Ciri to random Nilfguardian boy. I just don't feel compelled to pick this book up again.

Too much exposition. I'm bailing for now. But I definitely want to get back to this since it's considered such a foundation for the fantasy genre.

You know what. I should have skipped that painful Inferno section and just started reading Roads. Cause the prince and Soren are totally kicka@s!!

I've just started reading, but all the different POV's and character names is leaving me confused. I hope the narrative focuses a bit more so I can follow.

"He began to feel like a cad."
You very much are. Yes, Anthony, you absolutely suck.

Wow. Anthony is an even bigger asshole in the book. I can't believe he actually kicked her in the stomach. Such a dick.

Is it weird that as he kisses Essy I keep shipping him the Dandelion in my head? There must be fan art of this ship, right?