Rating: 3.5 
 I've had The Picture of Dorian Gray for a while now, and I've postponed its reading for so long that I felt almost guilty when I finally decided to pick it up. 
 I didn't know what to expect - or, to be more exact, I didn't know how much to trust the movie transposition of the book - so I was hesitant at first, and the mixed reviews surely didn't help. 
 After a while, though, I was sucked right in, and even though this was not my (usual) cup of tea, I found some passages so sublime that I would re-read them a thousand times over - hence the ten days it took me to read this. Well, that, and the fact that I had basically no time. 
 Aside from being a perfect example of human psychology, volatility and malleability, this book was also a reminder of how deeply sins and vices can damage one's soul and that, no matter how, no matter when, you'll have to deal with the consequences.