Hello and welcome back to the Peerless Page-turner blog! We've come to an end of English and for my final blog post I will be recommending one of the three books I read for my reading study.
For my independent reading study, I chose the three books, The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, The Scum Villain's Self-saving System, by Mo Xiong Tong Xiu, and Shakespeare Saved My Life, by Laura Bates. Out of these three I would recommended The Picture of Dorian Gray the most.
I find old, classic novels tend to scare off most people my age; they are thought to be boring and full of old, stale, ideas. And while yes, I agree some classics can fall into that, The Picture of Dorian Gray is not one of them. The wonderful thing about literature is that humans have been the same since the dawn of time, we hold the same core ideas as those hundreds of years ago, and that is beautiful.
Dorian Gray is a truly brilliant novel, written elegantly by my favorite author. The ideas discussed in Dorian Gray, are ideas that are still important today, even if it was written more than 100 years ago.
Dorian Gray discusses youth and pleasure in an intelligent and well-done way, it is surprisingly the type of story I believe every teenager should read. Indulging yourself in every passing thought and pleasure is something that often plagues the minds of people my age; we've all had that thought, 'what's the worst that can happen?' Well, even though I am certain that nobody here will be selling their soul for eternal youth, I can tell you that Dorian Gray explores that exact idea, and let me tell you, once you finish the book your opinion on the nature of humans and pleasure will have completely changed.
I implore everyone reading this to head down to their local library and pick up a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray. I promise you won't be disappointed.
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