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I’m 45 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since October 05, 2007.
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- Wuthering Heights finished
- The Scarlet Letter finished
- Madame de Staël finished
- The Sign of the Four finished
- A Study in Scarlet finished
- The Adventures of Sally finished
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde finished
- The Scarlet Pimpernel finished
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes suspended
- The Picture of Dorian Gray suspended
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - the men of Dorian Gray
Okay - but Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Scarlet Pimpernel were also written in the same period (I don't read a lot of Edwardian) and I don't remember them having so many moral drawnout speeches. Lord Henry is the Julia Sugarbaker of this book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - the men of Dorian Gray
I couldn't agree more. So far there is not one character in this book that I would want to spend any time with. Basil already seems weak, LH is way to pompus, and in the little exposure we've had so far, Dorian seems flighty. Maybe as the book progresses they will become more endearing, but I doubt I would be able to put up with LH's grand statements.