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Summary: Pretentious and boring
Review: The definition of "classic" is something timeless and universal; this book is neither. It does ask some "deep" questions but it doesn't make you really care about the answers; the characters are one-dimensional and transparent. It's hard to seriously relate to any of them, or this story. The writers' language is beautiful in a flowery way. If you want a feel for the book, read the intro/prelude; there are some interesting statements Wilde makes about "ART". Otherwise, don't bother. There's only so much of art-imitates-life-life-imitates-art you can take.
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Summary: "Timeless Literature" defined
Review: This was a compelling and thought-provoking book that was also engrossing for people who just want a good story (like myself:). The pages were full of thought and depth, and the book was absolutely amazing. Some might find it lacking in action, but Wilde makes up for that by making the story fascinating and subtly chilling.
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Summary: Beautiful Tragedy Of The Effects Of Callousness & Hedonism
Review: A gorgeous & cultured young man of wealth is twice destroyed by his twisted love for himself. This book was written with a haunting and lovely prose style, excellent plot development, and a satisfying & breathtaking conclusion. It is in every sense a classic.
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Summary: greatest book i've ever read
Review: this is the most beautifully written piece of literature i've ever read. it makes you look at people and life in a whole new way.
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Summary: The Picture of Dorian Gray is master piece
Review: Oscar Wilde is able to conjour about an amazing story about a hedonist that sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.
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Summary: An excelent book that shows the high price of eternal youth.
Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray has to be one of Ocsar Wilde's best books. This book, which takes place in 19th-century England, signifies the high price one young man had to pay for eternal youth.Basil Hallward, a mediocre painter, became infatuated with an extremely hansom but innocent young man, Dorian Gray. It was Dorian's picturesque beauty which inspired Basil to paint his best picture ever. Overcome by the beauty of his youth, Dorian wished that he would ramain young forever and that the portrait would deteriorate with age. However, when Dorian realised that his wish had come true and the picture took on the effects of his sins, his lifestyle signifcantly altered. Dorian went from leading a normal aristocratic life, to living a secretive life full of sin and slander. This book is proof that one can not be happy with youth and beauty alone. The suffering of Dorian Gray shows us that there is more to life than mere beauty. Dorian's life was ruined by a simple wish to be forever young. Although no one can stay young forever, this novel is a key example of why one should not simply focus on base characteristics such as youth and beauty, for these things will always fade.
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Summary: This Writer Has No Equal
Review: I am a fan of many writers, but Oscar Wilde holds a special place in my non-existant but nonetheless real Hallway of Marble Busts of Famous Dead Guys. Obviously, Wilde was aware of his already-forming legend status at the height of his popularity, and his arrogance is permeated throughout every one of his works. This does not, however, disqualify him from being rightly honored by his huge and admiring readership. It also doesn't change the fact that he was victim of his own irony, dying young and humiliated in jail. No one illustrates tragicomedy better than Oscar Wilde. This particular book is the Bible of the Infinitely Quotable Strokes of Verbal Genius. My personal fave: "Cigarettes are the perfect form of the perfect pleasure. They are exquisite and they leave one unsatisfied. What more could one want?"
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Summary: a tale of moral decadence
Review: It is a tale of moral decadence and debauchery, dorian seems consume in his self portarit, his love for himsel is so big that he cannot see beyond his image and when his true image dawns on him he dies. However i did not give him five stars because of the way the plot moves. It is a little bit slowly and only at the end do you feel it taking full force.
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Summary: Great piece of literature.
Review: I think it's easy to read Dorian Grey and be superficially fixated on the notion that the book was just a facade for Wilde's homosexuality.But refrain from that state of mind and I think you will properly permeate Dorian Grey.I believe the book had several prevailing messages buried under a slew of witty epigrams and paradoxial ideas and musings,which consequently served as a spur for his role as a dramatist.I hope that anyone who reads Dorian Grey will avoid making the mistake of reading It as a referance to early homosexual conduct(And let's face it,that topic has become so banal in recent years)but as a semi-iconoclastic landmark piece of literature.
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Summary: ¿As lovely as an Arabian carpet¿ - but quite real
Review: The book at times appears to be a sequence of Wilde's best one-liners, intersperced with narrative. Once, when I thought that that was all that the book was, I still liked it: after all, the story was a good one, the one-liners were mostly good, and if the two didn't fit well together, well, that was a pity, but it didn't prevent the book from being fun to read. I realise now that the book packs a greater moral punch than I'd thought. Wilde makes evil seem genuinely attractive; and this is not to be done merely by telling us that so-and-so finds evil attractive, and then giving a spurious causal explanation. When Dorian performs his first act of genuine cruelty, not only Henry, but the author as well, tell us to forget about it, that it doesn't really matter. They even give us some genuinely good arguments. (Whereas Basil, the force of good, seems to be able to do little but utter stolid platitudes.) So we forget about it as much as Dorian does, and are hit over the head all the more smartly by the end of the book. It's true, Wilde still gets a bit carried away with himself in places; and the effect of seeing so many of his epigrams together in the one place is to make us wonder if we could write a computer program capable of creating a couple of hundred more; but I was wrong in my initial reaction. The flippancy and the deep seriousness are both necessary. They contrast, but they do not clash.
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