Chez’ novel of choice was Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This Book Club night was held on 11 October out at Chez’ home in Karaka. Present were: Chez (of course), Laura, Jonathan, Greg, Nicole, Marnie, Anne, and Georgia. Food included petites pastries and a fruit salad.
It was a great night, though regrettably, Chez was not particularly taken by her own book choice! Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s only novel, published in 1890. The book follows the fortunes of Dorian Gray, who trades his soul for eternal youth/beauty. The novel develops themes of the human relationship with the soul and provides a commentary of society at the time. Most members found that Lord Harry was a charismatic and entertaining character; extremely articulate and a lover of all things fine. One gets the feeling that Lord Harry was closely modelled on Oscar Wilde himself. Everyone scored the book highly, aside from Chez, giving an all time low score of 3.5/10! Laura loved Dorian and gave the novel the perfect score of 10/10. Nicole and Anne also loved the book, giving the very high score of 9/10. Jonathan and Greg gave scores of 8.5/10; with Marnie and Georgia giving a score of 8/10. Chez found the book frivolous and did not enjoy the characters that Oscar Wilde had created in this novel.
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