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A review by yanners
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
5.0
This was an indisputably inordinately intoxicatingly good book.
So good, that I’m adding it to the hallowed halls of my five-star shelf, where good books reside and multiply on an indiscriminate basis.
This is a book about sin, vanity, corruption, art, deceit, soul bartering, and fountain-of-youthing. It’s a story about human vices and the temptations of lust. It’s a story that will charm, bewilder and disgust. Above all, it’s a story about why you don’t vow to tie the knot on a whim or let your sneaky philosophical friends near impressionable, sheltered children.
More concisely, it’s a story of the century and how it trended too late for my boy Oscar to see it become the literary masterpiece it now is.
To all my literary demons who said I could never read 17th century literature eat this.
5 stars
So good, that I’m adding it to the hallowed halls of my five-star shelf, where good books reside and multiply on an indiscriminate basis.
This is a book about sin, vanity, corruption, art, deceit, soul bartering, and fountain-of-youthing. It’s a story about human vices and the temptations of lust. It’s a story that will charm, bewilder and disgust. Above all, it’s a story about why you don’t vow to tie the knot on a whim or let your sneaky philosophical friends near impressionable, sheltered children.
More concisely, it’s a story of the century and how it trended too late for my boy Oscar to see it become the literary masterpiece it now is.
To all my literary demons who said I could never read 17th century literature eat this.
5 stars