The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This is said to be one of Oscar Wilde's most famous novels. There is an interesting plot: a young man named Dorian Gray stays young in appearance, while all the traces of getting old and his misdoings are applied to the portrait of his. There are some interesting moral questions raised.
However, another of the main characters, a cynical Lord Henry, bored me with his numerous artificial quote-like monologues. Some lengthy descriptions of Dorian's possessions did not appeal to me either. And description of the male beauty which the book is, in a way, centered around did not touch my emotions.
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