I have a few niggly problems with this book. Oscar Wilde seems to have cut quite a few corners, Dorian figures out the painting straight away and automatically accepts that as true. His life gets a bit out of control, he has got people in trouble but no reference to that happens and somebody commits suicide and that is mention only in passing. But once Oscar gets on to describing curtains and materials he has loads to say, pages and pages in fact.

All that aside I really did like this book, there is one scene in the middle which is so sudden and violent it is really shocking, very clever stuff. Also Sir Henry and his views on marriage and women had me laughing.

My copy of the book said it was uncut, all the parts that were banned due to homosexuality had been put back in. I have the feeling that was a lie cos I didn't notice anything... Maybe I am just super-innocent.