The Picture of Dorian Grey

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I am currently reading this book and I was just wondering how it settled with you guys. Please post back with ur feelings towards this book.

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Read the book, saw the movie, liked both!

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I really like this book-- but then again, I am an Oscar Wilde fan. I had to read it a second time to truly appreciate the subtleties, and to realize that it is not just the story of a wicked man!

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rarablue wrote:

I am currently reading this book and I was just wondering how it settled with you guys. Please post back with ur feelings towards this book.

I really liked the book, but then again, I am an Oscar Wilde fan.

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Great book. A real classic. I never saw the movie, though, is it worth getting?

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Is this something to do with greed? & making a deal with the devil? seems a bit heavy for my tastes.

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Good book. Interesting but a bit bizarre, I thought.
Yes, Dorian Grey "sells his soul to the Devil" in exchange for youth and beauty... It is a rather intense story - unlike Wilde's other witty stories such as The Ghost of the Cantervilles, The Importance of beimg Earnest, and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - these are cynical and funny but not bizarre.

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Excellent book, fantastic ending. I love the darkness of it all, amazing it got past the censors back then really. There is also a modern re-write by Will Self which is worth looking into called Dorian.

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Im reading it too, though I started over Christmas and havnt really looked at it this year.
The characters seem a bit wrapped up in themselves, like its all about their feelings and their love and how will they live without such and such.

Im up to the bit where Dorian has fallen in love with a girl.

I havnt seen teh film tho it was The Extraordinary Lague of Gentlemen that made me think I should read more classics as Grey was in it and I think Oscar Wilde is quite clever.
i was surprised that the description of Grey was the complete opposite of his portrayal in T.E.L.o.G.

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material girl wrote:

Im reading it too, though I started over Christmas and havnt really looked at it this year.
The characters seem a bit wrapped up in themselves, like its all about their feelings and their love and how will they live without such and such.

Im up to the bit where Dorian has fallen in love with a girl.

I havnt seen teh film tho it was The Extraordinary Lague of Gentlemen that made me think I should read more classics as Grey was in it and I think Oscar Wilde is quite clever.
i was surprised that the description of Grey was the complete opposite of his portrayal in T.E.L.o.G.

probably one of the worst films ever. I had the good fortune to go to the london premier, and sean connery didn't even stay to watch it.

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Oh I loved it!!

Sean Connerys a miserable so and so anyway.

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kashka wrote:

probably one of the worst films ever.

You should try to get your hands on the 1945 version with George Sand, Donna Reed and Angela Lansbury. It's a brilliant film (in my humble opinion, that is!) The recent remake, like most remakes, is bland and does the book no justice.

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Mahealani wrote:

kashka wrote:
probably one of the worst films ever.

You should try to get your hands on the 1945 version with George Sand, Donna Reed and Angela Lansbury. It's a brilliant film (in my humble opinion, that is!) The recent remake, like most remakes, is bland and does the book no justice.

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This past year i've made a big effort to go back and watch all those classic films which i'd never seen, the third man, citizen cane that sort of thing. Will definitely add this one to my list, thanks Very Happy

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kashka wrote:

This past year i've made a big effort to go back and watch all those classic films which i'd never seen, the third man, citizen cane that sort of thing. Will definitely add this one to my list, thanks

This may not be considered a "classic" film by many, but I think it is one of the best films ever (couldn't even tell you how many times I've seen it over the years). Made in 1968, starring Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole: The Lion in Winter. Everything about it is, I think, superb...especially the dialogue which is brilliant both in content and delivery. A remake was recently presented on US television with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close...the dialogue was identical but their dispirited acting (and I mean "acting"!) nearly made me weep.

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Right.Ive finished Dorian gray.
Annoyingly the end crept up on me as I thought the end of the book was many pages away but that was the appendix and pages of explanations of some things in the book,so I was only about 3 pages away from the end when i realised.
I hadnt built up enough tension as to what was going to happen so it was a bit of a dissapointment.
The thing that came through in his book and the Stephen Fry film of Wilde was that he was obsessed with youth and beauty.Is this a regular theme?

Anyhoo, a very good read.I like the way OW mind thinks.
If his other books are along the same lines Im gona read more.

Can you recomend which book of his I should read next.

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Another thing, I cant for the life of me remember how he disposed of Basils body,can anybody help?

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