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Beiez t1_je4atob wrote

I hate that I‘m like the only person to ever not love this book

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junjunjenn t1_je4q90f wrote

I really didn’t like this book. But I also abhor reading about the lazy lifestyles of upper class Europeans of this time. They literally just sit around eating and drinking for hours and I feel nothing towards them.

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Beiez t1_je50x91 wrote

Yeah this about sums up my feelings towards a majority of the book. Reading about people either salivating or being shocked over Lord Henry‘s fancy preaching became tedious quite quickly.

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UseMoreLogic t1_je55719 wrote

I found it unrealistic. People who are as into hedonism as Dorian usually don't suddenly have this desire for moral reformation.

They just... die from the hedonism/old age while still being into hedonism.

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Relative-Disaster-87 t1_je6imh0 wrote

I hated it so much I rage finished it and made my husband read it just so I could have someone to rant to about it. The bare bones of the story are great and the language is great but it reads like a giant soup of quotes. You can pick out great one liners and descriptive paragraphs but it feels to me like it needed pruning. People accuse you of not understanding it for not liking it though.

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Septymusmyth t1_je6h4e9 wrote

Well, now I'm glad that I AM not the only one who doesn't love it.

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sawyer1027 t1_je4ypto wrote

Can't get through one chapter without falling asleep another of the classics that is a full letdown for me. absolute snoozefest.

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Sqeeter t1_je4iks9 wrote

I didn't care much for it either. I kept waiting for him to actually do something salacious and it's like "oh no, he did drugs and had sex"

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Hazakurain t1_je4jfzx wrote

Yeah, in the Victorian era, it's the equivalent of slashing someone's throat in the streets.

So it was something extremely salacious in the context in which the book has been written

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W3remaid t1_je4tojd wrote

He’s a (wealthy) dope fiend who takes advantage of poor women in a time when even the implication of sexual activity outside of marriage meant ostracization and poverty for them. He betrays his friends and straight up murders one of them. He’s a massive piece of shit even for current standards

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albertossic t1_je9ocgr wrote

He stabs his friend to death and drives a young girl to suicide, following which her brother goes crazy and is killed in his pursuit

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