Finished The Picture of Dorian Gray

I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde over the Christmas holiday (12/24/2009) after watching the 1945 Warner movie version (George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury) a week or so earlier.

I'm glad I finally read the book, but I didn't really like it or any of the characters in it.  I suppose knowing how the plot would end which removed the gothic conclusion took some of the wide-eyed wonder from the book.

To be honest I enjoyed the melodramatic movie version better.