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thequeercaseofmarius's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
‘Why is your friendship so fateful to young men?’
Our main cast of characters are so very gay, and it’s crazy because it’s almost like Wilde met my gay friends and acquaintances and wrote a book about us (I like to think that I am Basil). But I also see each character as a different side to the Queer experience; Basil being the Queer artist who represents the beauty and tenderness of love between men, Lord Henry as the witty sass Queen that gay men are often viewed as from the outside, and Dorian represents Queer fears and anxieties that most of us have experienced some point in our life. The result is one of the most ingenious Queer horror stories ever written.
‘Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian Gray’s sins are no one knows. He who finds them has brought them.’
-Oscar Wilde
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Classism
Minor: Misogyny and Sexism
This novel is VERY dark as it covers a lot of internalised homophobia and fear of your own Queerness.lizziaha's review
4.0
Graphic: Death, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, and Classism
Minor: Animal death
estefizaga's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, and Classism
honeyvoiced's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Sexism, Suicide, Murder, and Classism
Moderate: Misogyny and Antisemitism
Minor: Drug use, Racial slurs, and Racism
sfx_naike's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Toxic friendship and Classism
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Antisemitism
writing_on_my_own's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
The hardest thing about this book I think is the paragraphs on paragraphs of dense philosophy. So if you are alright with that you will enjoy this book.
This symbolism and themes of mortality and sin and beauty were so wonderfully explored, it was so darkly beautiful. It was peak gothic, and I can’t wait to read more of the Gothic period.
All the characters were wonderfully flawed and awful, Dorian was such a compelling character.
Graphic: Misogyny and Classism
Moderate: Racism and Antisemitism
marthadude's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Classism
calais_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Sexism, Murder, and Classism
hauntedboi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Cultural appropriation, and Classism
spineofthesaurus's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Classism
Moderate: Ableism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Fire/Fire injury