Reviews with content warning for Drug abuse - The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

97 reviews

kayskates's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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p_a_p_e_rcuts's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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aceofcryptids's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m glad I read this because it’s always good to read the classics. That said, I was a bit disappointed because it feels as though it’s been hyped up all my life as this big Thing. Whereas it just felt neutral. It was a book. It did its job. Not bad, but perhaps overhyped.

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nocturna_of_space's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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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pfirsichsirup's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious reflective

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

FUCKS

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caitlinastrid's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious reflective slow-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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books_by_tm's review against another edition

1.0

dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The part were it moves from telling how he changes as a consequence of the influence from LH, where it tells us about some 12+ years it becomes very tedious and boring because it is already highly philosophical and LH speaks nonsense in a way that makes you think because you are trying to wrap your mind around the true meaning behind his assertions. He is a contemptible character and DG is abhorrent. BH is insufferably annoying and what happens to him makes it hard to sympathise with him.

This book has dark themes in that it talks about a story where someone gets away with bringing harm to others without suffering any real worldly consequences, they are all in his head since he thinks about and 'feels' remorse for them when he wants to. DG is a cruel person and it is his own choices that bring him down in the end, choices made to protect himself always. Since the whole story is about something mystical that cannot happen in real life, I guess justice was served mystically.

I believe it is not appropriate to have black kids be forced to read a book such as this and I find that it has complex things that even I battled to understand or follow. Also, it denigrates artistic expressions of the other races while exalting those of the races that are considered superior in the world as we know it. Ergo, it has racism triggers.

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