Sunday, January 16, 2011

Dorian Gray, day 1

"Of all the people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature" -Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

This is a bold statement coming from an Irish author. It is by one of his characters but still is a profound statement to make about a country that has produced some of the greatest writers in human history, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Lennon, Paul MaCartney, etc.  

I enjoy this book so far and find it to be incredible writing but four chapters in and I am still wondering where the story is going? I know that the picture ages and Dorian Gray does not but that is not a sufficient plot. It seems like a mystery but that is just because I have not seen a firm plot yet. 

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