A review by andreaskuschwitz
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.

I had such high hopes for this book. And it started off good, it really did. But at some point, Oscar Wilde just started shitting on women every single chance he got. Also, the notes of antisemitism really didn’t work in his favor. 
Okay, I get it, being a gay man in the 1890s, knowing you will eventually be forced into marrying a woman and getting kids with her would make just hating all women a very natural coping mechanism. But, I cannot read pages on pages of someone droning on and on about how stupid and shallow women are, I can’t. 

Dorian Gray‘s and Sibyl Vane‘s relationship made me so goddamn angry as well. Sibyl was described as a „delicate flower“ one gazillion times too many and their breakup was the thing that made me dnf this book.

It was one of the many many instances of characters being way too overdramatic. And if there‘s one thing I hate in a book, it’s unrealistic characters. 
I just for the life of me can’t get into classics. This one might just have been the last straw.