Cat Thursday - Current Mood

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Classics Club Spin #40 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I actually finished my spin selection! Seemed like I wasn't going to, as I felt I was plodding along at the end.

I've had this book on my TBR for a long time. I am glad I finally read it. I've long been an Oscar Wilde fan. I was in his play, The Importance of Being Earnest in high school. 

Dorian Gray is a good novel. It raises questions about narcissism, morality, even the association of ugliness with aging (and with evil), and the old being less than. It also has one of my favorite quotes, "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." So true.

The only problem I had, and it's a minor one, were the long passage describing Dorian's interests, his fleeting passions, and Lord Henry's various monologues. Yet there's no denying that this is an excellent novel of Gothic fiction. 

I have seen two film adaptations of Dorian Gray. The 1945 and 2009 films. Both of them changed the story and I have to say I much preferred the book. Not really a surprise though, right? 

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Cat Thursday - Charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and, talent

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Cat Thursday - It's all about the markings

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Cat Thursday - Cats Being Cats

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Cat Thursday - Only cat parents truly understand

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Classics Club Spin #40

And the spin landed on #4....The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde....to be finished by April 11.

What is the spin?

At your blog, before Sunday, February 16 create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain "to be read" on your Classics Club list.

This is your Spin List.

You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.

On Sunday, February 16, we'll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by April 11, 2025.

For full details and to join in, visit the Classics Club blog here.

My list

1. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
2. The Human Chord, Algernon Blackwood
3. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, Algernon Blackwood
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
5. Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol
6. The Centaur, Algernon Blackwood
7. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
8. Grendel, John Gardner
9. Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks, and Covens, Paul Huson
10. A Room with A View, E.M. Forster
11. The Witch of Ravensworth, George Brewer
12. The Werewolf, Montague Summers
13. Viy, Nikolai Gogol
14. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
15. The Collector, John Fowles
16. The Devils of Loudun, Aldous Huxley
17. In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires, Raymond T. McNally, Radu R. Florescu
18. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
19. Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Nikolai Gogol
20. Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot

Click here to view my entire Classics Club list

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