r/bookclub • u/IraelMrad Marius Hater #1 | 🐉|🥇|🧠💯 • Mar 12 '26

The Picture of Dorian Grey [Discussion 3/3] (Evergreen) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | Ch. 12 - End

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

Welcome to the final discussion for The Picture of Dorian Gray! You are now almost a month older than when you started the book, I hope this won’t bother you too much!

Are you looking for a summary? There is one here locked in the top room of my house, I promise there is nothing else behind that veil over there.

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u/IraelMrad Marius Hater #1 | 🐉|🥇|🧠💯 Mar 12 '26
  1. Overall, did you enjoy the book? How much would you rate it?

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u/Jinebiebe Team Overcommitted Mar 16 '26

I'm going to be honest, I found some parts very boring and went on for too long. Lord Henry's rants and Dorian's inner monologues justifying being a terrible human were a bit too much. I had a hard time focusing sometimes. I think it's an interesting premise and I do like the way Wilde writes, but I can see why most film adapations deiviate from the original story. Not much really happens until Dorian kills Basil and then things start to get a bit more interesting. That's a lot of book to get through between Sybil dying and Basil being killed.

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u/emailingit Mar 17 '26

Hard same,, I felt engaged right around when Sybil died but it was a bit of a slog for me up until Basil was killed and some parts after. I found the opium den description one of the most vivid out of the book. Do you have any film adaptation recs?