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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
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
Only one extra star because of the ending. I couldn’t stand Dorian. I know that’s the point but I just couldn’t get over it.
dark
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
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
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
.Dorian Gray is one of the stories where the aesthetic and story itself is 5*, but the actual writing - jfc. I would probably give a more modern/politically correct adaptation of this story a 5*. Good ideas, bad execution. Oscar Wilde was a terrible writer. It makes me realise in my creative writing course it’s not the skill or execution of the story that matters, but the aesthetic/idea around it all. Most classic writers have no idea how to write. Their grammar is horrific and their sentences are like drunkards rambling.
It made me so angry that I got to about chapter 16 and just googled summaries. Even ChatGPT writes better than Oscar Wilde. The novel closes with poetic irony—Dorian cannot destroy the evidence of his corruption without destroying himself. The portrait regains its innocence, while he suffers the fate he tried to escape: the return of age, sin, and mortality.
It made me so angry that I got to about chapter 16 and just googled summaries. Even ChatGPT writes better than Oscar Wilde. The novel closes with poetic irony—Dorian cannot destroy the evidence of his corruption without destroying himself. The portrait regains its innocence, while he suffers the fate he tried to escape: the return of age, sin, and mortality.
Too bad it’s written in 1890. I could not give a shit about the world, the characters or Wilde’s shitty writing style. Someone let me know when a “woke” version has been published so it can be a tolerable read.
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Lord Henry says heinous things in the moat charming manner and i fear that if he were real, i too would fall for his charms hook line and sinker.
I actually really enjoyed the book and am surprised by how much i liked it. Its very different from what i typically read in terms of style and content but it was an easy read nonetheless.
also chapter eleven is the greatest literary masterpiece ever written?? thats crazy???
I actually really enjoyed the book and am surprised by how much i liked it. Its very different from what i typically read in terms of style and content but it was an easy read nonetheless.
also chapter eleven is the greatest literary masterpiece ever written?? thats crazy???
tbh i would also make a deal with the devil to be a hottie forever but maybe id skip traumatizing my friends (just a suggestion dor!)
“he is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there”
“there were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful”
“what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul”
“he is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there”
“there were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful”
“what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul”