Hello, folks, and Happy Tuesday! How is everyone doing? This will be a drive by cause I don't have that much to say, unless you want em to rant about what a bad time I'm having with The picture of Dorian Gray.

When you realize this started out as a novella that then got stretched into a novel, it all makes so much sense. Of course the characters all go on rants at every opportunity, rephrasing the same idea in 5 different, supposedly witty, ways. There's only 50 pages worth of plot, you gotta pad it out somehow. The sexism is also something else. Was Oscar Wilde a villain all along? Because in Dracula sure people insisted that Mina needed to be protected cause she's a delicate woman, but in actual fact she's shown to be the smartest one of the bunch and they never would have caught Dracula without her. The guys have money but she has brains. Lord Henry calls women stupid and everyone just goes along and we never see any female characters who prove him wrong. I'm not expecting feminism, obviously, but the book is dripping with contempt for the entire female sex, to an insane degree. I know this book is important for other reasons, which is why I'm reading it, but it's interesting that I've never seen any critique about the sexism on display which feels extreme, even for the period.

I suppose the author was right about one thing, how you interpret art says more about you than about the artist so the things that bother me will probably not bother others.

Ok, rant over. I hope this has entertained you. Wishing everyone an excellent day.