Kerri H. reviewed on 11/9/2009

Helpful Score: 1

I've heard about this book for years and glad to have finally gotten to it. It left me with a variety of emotions: melancholy, a feeling of creepiness, a sense of vindication, much saddness, thoughtfulness,...

The entire story held moral dilemmas that are timeless. "Beauty above all else is nothing". "your actions will have consequences, maybe not immediately but they will occur." "How easily one can be influenced" or "Is one influenced or did someone bring out what is truly inside of you" And many more ideas flow through this book. But as relevant as they are in 1890's, they still stand true today.

It does have it's dull points. Chapter XI was misery and I skimmed it. Hopefully I didn't miss something! As well, the constant footnotes were distracting. (But that could just be that I'm easily distracted)

The final 1/3 of the book was by far my favorite and I would like to hope that the wheels in my head will keep turning, and I will continue to think about the concepts it brought up.

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