In China, people quoting this book and book-sellers always mark it a piece of touching love letter. Well. It's ABOUT love but it's about everything else too. It's private and strong and sensitive. It's raging and crying and laughing and cursing about love and life and, surprise surprise, trivial, ordinary, boring, daily affairs. No matter how love-related the book is exaggerated to be, the things he accused of can be found on Jerry Springer show, but downgraded in drama. Still I gave it 4 stars because not of what story it tells but how it is told. I would like to knock on those editor's door and tell them that there's much more of this book other than love. It is a cry from de Profundis. It talks about love yes. But it's also about Wilde as a person instead of an artistic figure or a flat character to quote in love letters. It is about him. And it is so well written.