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The picture of Dorian Gray,
a good story. but what impressed me most was wilde's razor-sharp wit and insight. he gives his opinions on everything from love to art and was his sharp tongue that brought on his downfall.i think it's more important to be intelligent than goodlooking, however...
The picture of Dorian Gray,
When I first began reading this book I was intrigued. The first few pages are incredibly interesting. They are written extremely well and are filled with facinating ideas. That doesn't last long, though. After the forthy-somthing page the reader begins to understand that Oscar Wilde uses a lot of words to say nothing. And he does say something, you won't notice it because it's strangled to death with a lot of useless information.However, I do think the book does make a good read. You can't really blame Wilde for writing the way he does, since he, himself, says on the second page of this book: "The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one adimers it intensely", and Wilde does admires his work intensely and for that we "owe' it to him to read "The Picture of Dorian Gray".
The picture of Dorian Gray,
I enjoyed reading the book, and thought that it was a great allegory. I loved how Wilde used vivid details in all his characters, especially in the life of Dorian Gray! I also saw the movie starring George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield, which I thought was really good also!
The picture of Dorian Gray,
I thought it was good, I don't know why people are saying it was boring.
The picture of Dorian Gray,
There is too much monotonous content in this book, but when it all comes through it isn't all that bad. This book's intention was clear, but it took to long to develop. This idea should have been made into a short story and not a two-hundred page story.
The picture of Dorian Gray,
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" poses some problems for certain readers. Certainly, it is dated insofar as many other Edwardian novels out of Nineteenth Century England seem trite and shallow (faring badly with what was coming out of Russia at the time: Gripping, universal, human stories from titanic authors like Dostoevsky or Tolstoy). But, cultural handicaps aside, let's give Wilde his due: The book is a treasure trove of wit--from his brilliant epigrams to its very fascinating plot, which anticipates Magical Realism by at least 50 years. That is to say, when one thinks of "Twilight Zone-esque" writing one is put in mind of Kafka, Borges or Grabriel Garcia-Marquez. The best in World Literature. But all of these writers take their cues from Wilde.