Gayness

I'm currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, a really unhappy book about a coupla guys in high society Europe around the late 1800s. Mainly it's about a narcissistic guy named Dorian who gets caught up in the grandeur of his own beauty. From there it seems to be a huge plummet in his psychological well being after comparing himself to a portrait painted by one of his friends.

I was reading the mini biography about the author Oscar Wilde and it says he was alienated for being a homosexual from his own society by his own father in public. Makes me sad to imagine a guy going through turmoil over words that blood could spill.

The book itself was in a top 100 novels to read book, and it's way more thrilling than The Count of Monte Cristo which I should have read in high school anyway. That book is so dense and hard to follow, seeming to paint images of wealthy society and the interweavings of a few prominent characters. But they spend so much money just for holding appearances it makes my head spin. At least Dorian Gray isn't the richest count in all the land. I can actually keep a track of his life and his transformation of status and start to immerse myself in all the funny details about society in the novel.

Sadly I'm starting to get really confused with all this formal talk. I don't think this was a romance novel...