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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. This story was really interesting. I think we can’t expect the end. But, I knew “Dorian”, the main character of this story because I’ve seen the movie “The league of legend”. He’s a character in the movie. So I could enjoy reading more! And, I was interested in the character “Lord Henry”. I think he changed Dorian. I wanted to know about him. (  ) miyukih | Dec 24, 2009 |  Loved it. Consistently interesting, though a few of the speeches dragged on as did a few of Wilde's "detailing paragraphs." Though I may not have agreed with everything that was said, overall it was very good, and Wilde is a beautiful writer. (  )1  AlbinoRhino | Dec 23, 2009 | I could think of the darkness of the human. I think this is interesting story. (  ) harunak | Dec 17, 2009 | The beautiful boy Dorian was painted by the painter of his friend. Dorian in the picture was very beautiful.And he want to keep himself young and beautiful. But he repeat to commit crimes in spite of his pure face. Then,his picture start to change... This story was very expressive and grim. So I don't know how to say after reading it. Dolian's life and personality was very fragile. ( ) deep_tarutaru | Dec 16, 2009 | Reading A Picture of Dorian Gray was a transformative experience. Often times, too often, I felt like Dorian himself reading about his own life from the view of one past. The idea of living a life for the senses, one of nothing but desire and pleasure, is too close to home. Oscar Wilde’s wit manifested through Lord Henry was the OG caustic, cynic intellects for which many I know strive to be. I am somewhere in the middle of Dorian and the Lord. I am nowhere at the same time, since I am just a modern man using technology. Still, I can dream that I am not a loser and don’t spend all my time writing reviews because I have nothing else going for me. I want to be loved and hated, I want to smoke in an opium den, I want to commit suicide by destroying the painting of myself that’s kept my youth in tact. No, I want none of it. Now that I’ve finished Dorian Gray, there’s nowhere left for me to go, nothing left for me to do. I have no outlet. Just as Oscar Wilde finishes his masterpiece wit the unaware suicide of his handsome devil, a knife through his heart, lying decrepit on the floor, I have no where else to venture. I have exhausted life, or has life exhausted me? (  ) TakeItOrLeaveIt | Dec 10, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Amazon.com (ISBN 014043187X, Paperback)A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." (retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) A primeira ronda de testes foi já encerrada. Visite o grupo Open Shelves Classification para mais informação. |
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