The Magus

by John Fowles

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Title	The Magus
Author	John Fowles
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Tags	novel, fiction, greece, mystery, 20th century, psychology, read, readin2007, 50 book challenge, verified
Collections	Your library, Fiction, Books I've Read
Your review	For the first half of this book I thought it was pretty much the best thing ever. Now it ended and I’m in a bit of shell shock. I strongly believe that this novel would appeal to those in the Da Vinci Code set. It’s plot-driven and stretches one’s credulity until it kind of breaks. One desires, no, one feels that one must understand what is going on. It’s fascinating, well-written and had philosophical moments that had me–sadly indifferent to most philosophy–on the edge of my seat (well, bed, usually, that’s where I read), almost reaching for a highlighter (those who know me know I also don’t do this either). It postures itself to be about humanity, reality and the search for identity, but in the end I found that I was still burning with anger on the protagonist’s behalf, not satisfied, and dully, dumbly confused. Fun times were had with the onslaught of literary, historical and artistic references. Have at; hope you’re better-read than I am! Update: I read this book just over a year ago, but I cannot stop thinking about it. It informs my metaphorical sense of things. For this reason, I'm upping my rating to 5 stars.
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Publication	Back Bay Books (2001), Paperback, 656 pages
Publication date	2001
ISBN	0440351626 / 9780440351627
LC classification 1	PZ4.F788Mag2
Dewey 1	823/.9/14
Subjects	British › Greece › Fiction British › Travel › Greece › Fiction Fiction in English Greece › Fiction Islands › Fiction Islands › Greece › Fiction Psychological fiction
Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
Original language
Date acquired
Date started	2007-04-22
Date finished	2007-05-03
Summary 1	The Magus by John Fowles (2001)
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BCID	XXX-
Number of copies	1
Citation	MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, Wikipedia citation
Data source	amazon.com

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