I've had this book on my TBR for a long time. I am glad I finally read it. I've long been an Oscar Wilde fan. I was in his play, The Importance of Being Earnest in high school.
Dorian Gray is a good novel. It raises questions about narcissism, morality, even the association of ugliness with aging (and with evil), and the old being less than. It also has one of my favorite quotes, "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." So true.
The only problem I had, and it's a minor one, were the long passage describing Dorian's interests, his fleeting passions, and Lord Henry's various monologues. Yet there's no denying that this is an excellent novel of Gothic fiction.
I have seen two film adaptations of Dorian Gray. The 1945 and 2009 films. Both of them changed the story and I have to say I much preferred the book. Not really a surprise though, right?
I read the book a few years back and enjoyed it. It did an excellent job of espousing the lesson of how easy it can be for especially a young person to lose their way when they are unmoored from their conscious. In that, I felt the book wasn't really a horror story in the supernatural sense (the picture notwithstanding,) but of the moral sense.Also, Wilde's prose is exquisite.
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