According to the author introduction, the book is one of his first and less favourite works. It is also derivative of a renowned French novel, although it basically reads like a young man's facile philosophizing most of the time. Fowles considers it unfortunate that this is also the favourite work o...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - It was my first encounter with David Mitchell although I have seen and loved the movie "Cloud Atlas" (I definitely have to read this novel). I can`t compare if Thousand Autumns is better or worse than Cloud Atlas, but I enjoyed it a lot. Writing style is quite...
I find myself caught between rant and rave. More rave, which is why I rated it so high, but enough wish to rant to withhold that fifth star. This is a strange book. In the Foreword to the 1978 Revised edition, Fowles said one title he considered was "The Godgame." A young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, ...
Going to have to call this one "unfinished" and part ways with it. Found it much too wordy and with so many pages to go I was depressing myself with the effort I had to put into trying to forge on.
4.5 stars. How I loved this book! For me, it was one of those works that out of the 700 pages the edition I borrowed from a friend of mine, 600 hundred I loved and 100 I was like: "oh God, please pass quickly, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!". Before anything else, I'd wish to say that lately, I haven't been r...
JoHM fowls 1965 book the magus (iPad spell correct is going whack) is one of those madcap books that somebody with mad staring eyes is telling u "best book EVAR" . So afterwards you kinda smile and back away slowly. Picked it up once in 2003, and now ten years after finally finished it. Yes, you hav...
I'm not exactly sure how to rate this book. But I have a sneaking suspicion that I might read it again at some point, which is generally my personal line for four stars. I picked this up as one of the books on the BBC's Big Read list, which I am slowly making my way through. I am not sure what to ma...
I don't know where i stand with this book. Altough i liked it's way of always reinventing the story (you can never get bored with this kind of plot), there's only so far i can go. I find that leaving the end open doesn't help, because after a 600+ pages affair, you want to know where you're left.The...
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