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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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bookshelves: classics, non-ya, owned, lgbt-plus, project-clear-ur-sh-t, 4-stars, recommend, beautifully-written, reviewed, to-buy
Nov 08, 2021
bookshelves: classics, non-ya, owned, lgbt-plus, project-clear-ur-sh-t, 4-stars, recommend, beautifully-written, reviewed, to-buy
Books like this are why I love classics. They may be old as hell, but in another, much more real way, they never get old.
We as a society will never outgrow the need for a beautifully written book about being hot and evil.
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Bottom line: Valiantly resisting the urge to make this book my entire personality.
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
and who says the classics aren't relatable.
review to come / 4 stars
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nice eternal youth and beauty you got there. i sure hope you don't descend into mortal sin with it
We as a society will never outgrow the need for a beautifully written book about being hot and evil.
End review.
Bottom line: Valiantly resisting the urge to make this book my entire personality.
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pre-review
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
and who says the classics aren't relatable.
review to come / 4 stars
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currently-reading updates
nice eternal youth and beauty you got there. i sure hope you don't descend into mortal sin with it
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Nov 08, 2021 07:43AM
Wow I just finished this book yesterday and I was looking for your review. Kind of weird kind of cool haha
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Lol! You should check out The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis; it is somewhat the same premise. A pure and holy man spirals himself into hell.
This is kinda funny I started this book today. But it says there is the original version and a censored version and I don't know which one I have.
Valeria wrote: "Wow I just finished this book yesterday and I was looking for your review. Kind of weird kind of cool haha"omg!!! love a coincidence
Kendyl wrote: "Lol! You should check out The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis; it is somewhat the same premise. A pure and holy man spirals himself into hell."!!!!
Mia wrote: "This is kinda funny I started this book today. But it says there is the original version and a censored version and I don't know which one I have."likely the censored - i don't think the original is widely published, but i don't know for sure!
I was trying to look at the link for your "clear ur shit" challenge linked at the bottom of the review, but it looks like the link doesn't work anymore. Did your Twitter get deleted?
Kylene_reads wrote: "love the review😍"thank you <3
The Story Girl wrote: "I was trying to look at the link for your "clear ur shit" challenge linked at the bottom of the review, but it looks like the link doesn't work anymore. Did your Twitter get deleted?"oh i'm addicted to deleting my social media. i have a shelf for it though!
Agreed that some stories never truly get old. ... perhaps they have paintings of other books aging on their behalf hidden somewhere. =)
Ginger wrote: "Agreed that some stories never truly get old. ... perhaps they have paintings of other books aging on their behalf hidden somewhere. =)"
genius
Make it your whole personality? Like Dorian did the yellow book? I thought the novel was warning against stuff like that. lol
Damn girl if you feel like this then whats a book gotta do to get 5 stars??
I read this right after crime and punishment which was a big mistake (I definitely got the classic fatigue) wanna reread at some point
So would that be an AI created image or candid selfie in your case? Great review! May just steal the inserting memorable quote in review trick....imitation after all is the sincerest form of flattery...
Lily wrote: "Make it your whole personality? Like Dorian did the yellow book? I thought the novel was warning against stuff like that. lol"the book was warning against jokes?
Lucy wrote: "Damn girl if you feel like this then whats a book gotta do to get 5 stars??"magic
Dani wrote: "I read this right after crime and punishment which was a big mistake (I definitely got the classic fatigue) wanna reread at some point"you 100% should!!!
When I hear the word "classic" Arthur Koestler's comment comes to my mind. "A writer's ambition should be ... to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years." There might be more classics produced if this were the aim of more writers.
Georgia wrote: "When I hear the word "classic" Arthur Koestler's comment comes to my mind. "A writer's ambition should be ... to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one ..."i love that!
me and dorian being twins- him with his little yellow book from his hedonistic dickhead mate and me with my little orange book that took way too long to arrive in the post
