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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night!
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Reading progress update: I've read 212 out of 248 pages.
I’m always baffled at the incorrect page numbers. This is 212 with footnotes.
Not going to lie, very interesting, but not a favorite.
Some parts were slow and Wilde not coming right out to explain the terrible things Dorian was doing was a strange literary choice. I know readers are supposed to just guess, but it just sounded like he was drinking, smoking opium, and having affairs. I guess as long as it was hidden that’s fine. He didn’t do anything too evil until he murdered Basil and then forced someone to help him cover it up.
I didn’t like Lord Henry at all and wondered why Dorian paid any mind to him.
One wonders of this was a cautionary tale or what at times since Wilde depicts mostly everyone around Dorian to be awful in some form or another.
