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For English, should I read Dorian Gray or Catch 22?
For a 6 month long English project, I have the option of choosing one of 11 books. I've narrowed them down to either:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde or Catch 22 by Heller or Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.
Any opinions on them? From what I read online, I'm leaning towards one of the former two since Crime+P seems like a psychological belief frenzy I wouldn't enjoy.
DG I think I'd like the ideology, but I don't think I would like the 1800s setting and that type of dialect/characteristics. And I think I'll like Catch-22's war dialect and culture, but I think I'd enjoy the ideology less than DG, but only by a little.
Thank you for opinions, please give a reason, don't just list a title.
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Okay I've never read Catch 22 and I heard it's good but Dorian Gray and Crime and Punishment are two of my favorite books EVER.
If you want to read a short book that's jam packed with philosophy, then Dorian Gray is the right choice for you. The book definitely isn't shallow; you have to really think about what's going on when you read it to fully understand it.
Crime and Punishment is also AMAZING. This book is obviously a lot longer (my copy was over 500 pages) but it's an amazing interesting story that I could barely put down.
If I were you, I would do Dorian Gray just because you can really concentrate on it because it is such a short novel.
Hope I helped!
Source(s): me! - ?Lv 45 years ago
I've read: Wright, Richard: Native Son Williams, Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.: Slaughterhouse-Five Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye Shakespeare, William: Hamlet Orwell, George: Animal Farm Shakespeare, William: Macbeth Shakespeare, William: A Midsummer Night's Dream Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God Homer: The Odyssey Golding, William: Lord of the Flies Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsb Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
- Dwayne HooverLv 61 decade ago
Catch-22 is just great. It's funny, it has a clear social message, and it is well written. It is one of the best post-modernist works out there.
Don't get me wrong, Crime and Punishment is not bad. Catch-22 is just better. As for the Picture of Dorian Gray, I have surprisingly never read it.
- Bob SacamanoLv 41 decade ago
It's hard to recommend a book for someone I've never met, but I'd go for 'Catch 22'. Simply because I've read both the books and I enjoyed that one more. Also, 'Dorian Gray' is VERY late-19th century; therefore, if that's a problem, why put yourself through it?
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- ?Lv 41 decade ago
Catch-22
There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage.
http://www.amazon.com/Catch-22-Joseph-Heller/dp/06...
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