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The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

208 reviews

mindoftheraven's review against another edition

3.25

dark mysterious relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Minor: Death, Violence

pizzaisjesus98's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Damn near perfect

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Grief, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria

Moderate: Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Antisemitism, Murder, Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Blood, Alcohol, Classism

bootsmom3's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Alcohol, Dysphoria

calllmewes's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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i personally hate henry but the conversations he has with dorian bring a lot of questions to the table and that are interesting to dive into

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

tkat211's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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"I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference."

Interesting read. Amazingly poetic writing. 

(I WILL listen to anything Ben Barnes narrates)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts

seforaflorian's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

luxxltyd's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Grief

lightningmc_logyn's review against another edition

4.5

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I read this in 3 days. It was amazing, absolutely insightful. The context of Oscar Wilde being imprisoned for homosexuality after writing this book adds a somber layer to the experience. 
It was very profound, and raw with discussions of human nature, and how it’s pushed and pulled within the lense of a Christianity based good vs. evil society. Wilde did something powerful here, presenting a fascinating argument for beauty and ugliness, power and weakness, and the shades of morality. I will think about this for the rest of my life. 
The older English was challenging for me at times, particularly as I started reading the book and as well as

in chapter 9, which I felt dragged on for too long. The intention I think was to articulate how much Dorian had abandoned all things but knowledge and sensation.

I definitely recommend people read the uncensored version. Seeing the book as it was originally written is magical. The textual introduction was interesting, but quite long and I primarily focused on the actual body of the novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder

Minor: Death, Suicide, Antisemitism

Antisemitism:

There is a Jewish character that is depicted as a corrupt man. He runs the theatre Dorian attends, and the language is very antisemetic.

kreglow's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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One of those books where I understand why it's a classic, but it just doesn't resonate with me. Mainly, the story would have been engaging if there was more focus on the plot rather than meandering and focusing on Wilde's philosophies. Honestly, this would have worked better as a stage play, something akin to Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Murder

broccoli_mmm's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Wow wow wow.

Sometimes a piece of art just finds you at exactly the right time in your life. I had no idea what to expect going into this besides the queer subtext but wowww.

The idea of life itself as a form of art is brilliant and beautiful. Dorian’s complete misapplication of that principle is both fascinating and horrifying. Lord Henry is both clever and right and wicked and wrong. There is no room for absolute truth here.

The dialogue is insanely good, the only books ive read that come close are Austen’s. Every Basil and Dorian scene had me floored. sweet Basil </3

I want to read lines from this over and over and over again.

-0.25 because of the chapter listing every gemstone, tapestry, and instrument Dorian owned lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Classism

Minor: Gun violence