The recommendations for The Magus by John Fowles are coming in thick and fast. It looks like I need to get around to reading the copy that's been sitting in my Kindle for a long time.
1. The new Robert Anton Wilson book, A Non-Euclidean Perspective: Robert Anton Wilson’s Political Commentaries 1960-2005, mentions the book three times, including once as a personal favorite, and also as a "great book."
2. I recently wrote about book.sv, a book recommendation site recommended by Mark Frauenfelder, the RAW fan, writer, artist and founder of the Boing Boing magazine and website. When I tried it, it recommended The Magus to me. In the comments, Lvx15 said the site recommended The Magus to him as well, and Mark Brown mentioned it's in his "to be read" pile (which I suspect is as big as mine).
3. Robert Shea (in the new book) recommends John Fowles as one of his favorite writers.
4. Email from Mark Fraunfelder today: "Thanks for mentioning my book recommendation review! I read The Magus earlier this year and loved it!"
OK, OK, I will try to read it soon.
4 comments:
Good for you. I have not read that book.
I am some 360 pages into The Magus now. I can see some of Hagbard Celine's DNA in the title character, although there are plenty of differences, as well.
It is interesting, reading this on an island (I'm on Maui), as the island setting is so important in this book. Of course, the book is set an a Greek island. Also, my late Father-in-law was very Greek, so my feel for the culture is stronger than it would have been, if I had read it earlier on my life.
I should ad that I'm really enjoying it. A novel that will likely have a lasting effect on me.
Thanks for all the chatter on here about this. It moved me to read it, and I’m really enjoying it.
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