Kendra's review
The Collector
by John Fowles
Kendra's review
The Collector by John Fowles
Kendra's review
rating:
bookshelves:
five-star,
heebie-jeebies
recommended for: heebie jeebies
John Fowles, the author of one of the creepiest books ever written, The Collector, died a couple years ago. He was 79. The NY Times description of the plot: “…An eerily plausible portrait of a psychopath who kidnaps a young woman out of what he imagines is love, telling the story from the two characters’ opposing points of view until, at the end, the narratives converge with a shocking immediacy.”
“I know I have a reputation as a cantankerous man of letters and I don’t try and play it down,” he told The Guardian newspaper in 2003. “A writer, more-or-less living on his own, will be persecuted by his readers. They want to see you and talk to you. And they don’t realize that very often that gets on one’s nerves.”
“I know I have a reputation as a cantankerous man of letters and I don’t try and play it down,” he told The Guardian newspaper in 2003. “A writer, more-or-less living on his own, will be persecuted by his readers. They want to see you and talk to you. And they don’t realize that very often that gets on one’s nerves.”
