My English teacher Mr Steele has been trying to get me to read this one for ages and I’m like, “dude this is like 100 years old”, no thanks. And Oscar Wilde? Is he kinda like Matt Preston from Master Chef? But he gave me a copy anyway and I went to a health spa and while I was waiting for my facemask to work, I thought hey lemme give it a shot then. I quickly discovered it has cute boys and like, very DRAMATIC DEATHS WITH HANGING QUESTION MARKS LIKE THIS: ????? So it isn’t totes bad after all. Anyway, the story is about this one Popular called Dorian Gray, a babe with curly blond locks and blue eyes. It proves my theory that even 100 years ago, Jocks still rocked the schoolyard. He has this one friend Basil who is all serious and artistic and a painter and this other friend Lord Henry who seriously has his super snark on. Since they are all rich, all they do is lounge around all day having pseudo-deep conversations and partying at night. Which OMG, reminds me of so so many ppl around here.
Basil paints Dorian this one time and it turns out extra gorgeous and Dorian goes “oh yeah, if only I could look like this forever and the picture would like grow old.” Due to some Freaky Friday type switchero, Dorian becomes the picture and the picture becomes him. So then Dorian becomes really debauched and stuff cos no matter what he does, he stays all innocent looking cos the picture gets all evil for him. The only problem is that his life spirals out of control and all sort of wrong starts to go down. Dorian thinks “well, ah, maybe this isn’t such a good idea guise…”, but is it too late?
I would recommend this book to, like, all the Goths and Emos. Y’know, all the boys who like to wear eyeliner and their girlfriend’s black jeans and have super angst. I don’t personally care for all the descriptions of how debauched Dorian got, I mean, seriously – a little less conversation, a little more action? But I do like how it’s pretty creepy, Lord Henry is a bigger bit** than Marianne and the ending is a kicker (no spoilers from me, you will have to read it urself).
Do your reckon too many of the books that are set at school have male protagonists, Eliza?
ReplyDeleteThat Dorian cover is awesome - much better than my sad old penguin edition. Ben Barnes is just a little bit sexy, I might actually have to read it again...
ReplyDeleteWay too many Mr K, they should try and balance it. Plus I see they still like to do way-old books, but they aren't even choosing the good way-old books. I mean, why do Romeo & Juliet which is about a couple of 13-yr-old tweens having dramas with their parents over who they can or can't date (my mum never let me date at 13) when they can do McBeth first which has heaps of awsum murder.
ReplyDeleteOh and Mel, Ben Barnes is tots sexxy :)