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zelda139

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Female 41 from USA
Home on web at http://www.gracestreetstudio.com
DailyLit Reading:
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

Posts and Reviews:

The Picture of Dorian Gray - the men of Dorian Gray - posted last year

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 - posted last year

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.