#9: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I finished this several days ago and have not written a review of it until now because I needed time to process it. The characters were so wonderfully absurd in the first half of the book, but then take a dark turn. It was this shift that really made the book interesting for me. I found myself marking page after page of insightful quotes and philosophies, which all in all teach the reader about the value of youth and beauty. And, it was Lord Henry that I loved the most, not Dorian, because it felt like every time he came into a scene the story suddenly became a play. In the novel, Dorian becomes obsessed with a book that changes his entire life and I can see how this one might do the same for someone else.