 Each week this month I will be taking time to review a book that I did not like so hang on to something. Oscar Wilde wrote only one novel. Published in 1890 the picture of Dorian Gray is one of the most well-known modern weird fiction stories in history. It's about a beautiful and vain young man whose artist friend paints a portrait of him that is exceptionally lifelike and beautiful. Dorian makes a wish that the painting would take on all of his worries and troubles and that he himself would remain as beautiful and eternal as the painting and of course that's exactly what happens. It's a story that everybody knows whether they've read it or not and of course most people haven't including me until now. I listened to an unabridged audio book of it and I sat through all nine bloody hours of it. I was familiar with Oscar Wilde's short fiction and his plays and he truly is a genius writer but his quick witty style just didn't translate to the long form of the novel. I mean at least 90% of this book 90% is aimless rambling that does not contribute to the story or advance the plot. It really just needed to be a short story. The majority of the wasted text comes in the form of monologues from a character named Lord Henry who is obviously Oscar Wilde writing himself into the book. He just yammers on and on and page after page after page with his Oscar Wildean witticisms. There are a lot of quotes from this book that you would recognize like the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about that comes from Dorian Gray but it seemed like at least half of Lord Henry's pontificatings were devoted to repeating over and over and over how awful women are which I guess you would expect from Oscar Wilde. So great classic plot not a good book. Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.