Reviews - Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

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Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

4.08 AVERAGE

merrit_132's review against another edition

4.75

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lemonadegirl29's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

martalou's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective 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

freezeveganpolice's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark funny 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

Was in kind of a reading slump and thought, "Oscar Wilde can fix me," and I was right. No one was writing prose like him. What the fuck.

Also. Required reading for entering your 30s in the era of filler & facelifts.

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keight8perry's review against another edition

4.0

took me over a month cause i exclusively read it during the 10 minutes reading warmups with my 7th graders. great book! full of incredibly wise and witty one-liners. can’t believe no one realized oscar wilde was gay. also—its main pitfall was the crazy 20-year time jump with looooooong blocks of text telling me what dorian got up to (mainly fragrance, gems, and a book) that i mostly skimmed. the first of many must-read classics that i haven’t read!

vruts's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious 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

This was a tough read for me. Classical fiction is not my cup of tea and I was forcing myself to complete the book. Admittedly, I skipped a few monologues

about the yellow book and other superficial things

.

I do appreciate the class disparity that shows up sometimes. Unfortunately, things have not changed much since the book was released.

I am so happy that I was right about the

homoeroticism

.

This book is about the graph of

morality and hedonism

. I think it was beautiful. The message and meaning is relevant centuries later as well. I had difficulty with the language (and had to constantly look up meanings) but I do appreciate the book.

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