The book is short and of value if you have some knowledge of Oscar Wilde and Blaise Pascal. It is the background of The Picture of Dorian Gray and other works by Oscar Wilde that this little book is interesting.

his lectures are better than the book. They can be found on youtube

Wow so good. Almost in one sitting. Couldn't stop.

This book was difficult to read. Ravi is a great thinker. Much better at that then I am. I take life as it comes.

I am amazed at the brilliance of Ravi Zacaharias's ability to provide us with such a message leveraging fiction, as he he places our human soul in the presence of death and reflection upon choices of the flesh, and the reality of the Grace of Jesus Christ, walking through the life of the talented and inspired Oscar Wilde. I am enamored for the life our Savior lived, and his presence in the Holy Spirit that guides leaders such as Ravi to deliver such a powerful message to us during a time of devaluation of morality.

I confess this one wasn't anywhere on my radar until it popped up on a deal of the day email several months ago. As I have enjoyed Mr. Zacharias' writing before, I decided to try it. It is an intriguing little conversation! I didn't remember much about Oscar Wilde's life, but I went and researched what I could find, which helped me understand just what is going on in this "conversation". It provides great food for thought and response when faced with so much of the sensuality in culture around us...

Definitely a book that I think gets better in the second read. And definitely worth a second read!

Excellent book. I will probably re-read this one in a year or two, to see what else I can glean from its pages. Ravi Zacharias has an amazing mind... I think I read each paragraph of this book twice, just trying to pull more and more out of it each time.

Rereading this book after a few years ago...trying to review perspective on this topic...
Got new perspective...deep thoughts provoking...

Note: reference to Dorian Gray...

What I've gathered as the main point of this book is that our sensual desire are given to us by God, but perverted by sexual deviance and we can not be justified by arguing "but we are made in God's image".
With slightly ascetic undertones in the end, Zacharias concludes that we confuse pleasure with earthly things are are innately evil, until we accept God and a new purpose of our heart takes over. The true pleasure is that which pleases the soul, not the body. Pleasure will eventually come from pain.

It was a good book, and I really like the presentation of an imaginary dialogue between Wilde, Pascal, and Jesus. I just wish it played more off of reason than it did emotion and revelation.

A fantastic book for Christians/struggling Christians to read, but the bent is certainly not towards conversion.

I loved it! Really smart and captivating! Highly recommended

Wilde’s last words before he died was something along the lines of “Either this wallpaper goes or I do.” He of course did die and Ravi provides a fictitious conversation between Wilde and Christ. Mostly interesting.