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4.0

Disturbing but fucking awesome. Plus did you know that Ben Barnes is Dorian Gray in the movie? He's so beautiful sometimes I think he's not even real.

So I guess I have this thing where I get really intimidated with classic books like Dickens, Austen, Dostoyevsky, etc. And this book has been categorised to Classic Books That Scared The Hell Outta Me before I even read it so I guess I kind of judged it prematurely. Remember that English isn't my primary language so sometimes classic books language just kind of hard for me to understand. But for some reason I tried reading this one and I quite loved it. It was not very hard to read or to understand and the story is just lovely in a dark-ish kind of way.

Reading this book certainly inspired me to read other classic books like Count of Monte Cristo (awesome as hell), The Idiot, and Fitzgerald's books. Will definitely try to get out of my comfort zone again as soon as possible.