Kelly's review
The Magus
by John Fowles
I have this on my list too - I've heard lots of good things about it.
yeah, after The French Lieutenant's Woman, this one seems to come up the most. The premise is certainly intriguing.
Awesome. Am excited to hear what you think of this.
you have my sympathy. fowles best magic was The...Woman for me. and i really really liked The Aristos when i was vewy vewy young. ( non-fiction personal interpretation of greek philosopher.)
i either never made it through, saw an excruciating movie verion or have forgotten. i teeter on the brink of shame....
I'm pleased that someone agrees with me about this book and/or movie. It sounds like both were equally excruiciating. I read in someone else's review that Woody Allen said that if he had one thing he could do over in life it would be to take back the hours he wasted on seeing the movie version of the Magus.
oh but i thought you were gonna finally do this for me and report back.
... do what? I tried this book!
Damn, I heard such good things about this, too! The Collector is on my list, as well, maybe I'll start with that one instead.
The Collector! Now that was fun, tho not by any reckoning of mine a mature work. And the movie too - Terrance Stamp collects Samantha Egger 1965 - tho i have no idea how well it has aged.
This is interesting - i associate this writer with my 20's - he was really important to me, the later conversations about the casting and screenplay for TFLW were animated and complex... and he has not turned out to be one of the writers i've gone back to. Tho i am thinking that finding TFLW on cd would be fun.
Kelly's review
The Magus by John Fowles
Kelly's review
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did-not-finish
NO. I can't. I can't do it. Its like if you took that Most Dangerous Game Bradbury story and RUINED IT FOREVER. At first I thought it was going to be an amazing, longer psychological version of that book, right? NO. It's an unbearably pretentious attempt for Fowles to show off his education for 400 pages of heavy, slowgoing, super emo emotion and dialogue all while congratulating himself on how erudite he is. It's really hard to get into something that's supposed to be a thriller, if an intellectual one... when NOTHING THRILLS. NO GOOSEBUMPS, PEOPLE. I'm feeling no shivers. Except those that I feel when I sigh and try to pick up this book to keep going.
I'm sorry, maybe my patience is impaired. Perhaps I'd get into it more if I really just dedicated a whole day to transport myself to that world, but.. really.. should I have to work that hard?
I'm sorry, maybe my patience is impaired. Perhaps I'd get into it more if I really just dedicated a whole day to transport myself to that world, but.. really.. should I have to work that hard?
I have this on my list too - I've heard lots of good things about it.
yeah, after The French Lieutenant's Woman, this one seems to come up the most. The premise is certainly intriguing.
Awesome. Am excited to hear what you think of this.
you have my sympathy. fowles best magic was The...Woman for me. and i really really liked The Aristos when i was vewy vewy young. ( non-fiction personal interpretation of greek philosopher.)
i either never made it through, saw an excruciating movie verion or have forgotten. i teeter on the brink of shame....
I'm pleased that someone agrees with me about this book and/or movie. It sounds like both were equally excruiciating. I read in someone else's review that Woody Allen said that if he had one thing he could do over in life it would be to take back the hours he wasted on seeing the movie version of the Magus.
oh but i thought you were gonna finally do this for me and report back.
... do what? I tried this book!
Damn, I heard such good things about this, too! The Collector is on my list, as well, maybe I'll start with that one instead.
The Collector! Now that was fun, tho not by any reckoning of mine a mature work. And the movie too - Terrance Stamp collects Samantha Egger 1965 - tho i have no idea how well it has aged. This is interesting - i associate this writer with my 20's - he was really important to me, the later conversations about the casting and screenplay for TFLW were animated and complex... and he has not turned out to be one of the writers i've gone back to. Tho i am thinking that finding TFLW on cd would be fun.
