I know I’ll probably get a lot of hate over this but I started reading “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and I’m just not enjoying it at all. I can understand why other people might love it but personally I find the writing style to be a bit too much, a bit “pretentious” for my liking.
One might say it’s probably because I don’t enjoy writing styles that are wordy but it’s not even that. I enjoy books that describe something in a long-winded way, I’ve enjoyed books from Émile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre and they both were authors that never knew when to shut up. However, I do prefer books that get to the point, for example I love Ernest Hemingway’s and Albert Camus’ writing style.
I don’t know, I guess Oscar Wilde’s writing is just not for me but I have no idea what it is that I don’t enjoy about it aside from it feeling a bit tasteless for my liking. I wish I knew EXACTLY what it is that I’m not enjoying about it but I can’t pin point it, usually I can tell what of the writing I’m not a fan of but this time I can’t figure it out. I don’t know if it is just me that has felt this way about a book.
by allezvasy