NP but John Fowles

[Mark Kohut]

esp/ The Magus. Worth reading, any p-lister?  As fiction. 
 
My preconceptions: read The Aristos years ago, was unimpressed. I've come to like some of his
expressed ideas in non-fcition stuff....on Nature, on Love (like so many), on existential loneliness, on ecology but
I wonder if the good ideas are embodied in good fiction or is the fiction weighted down by unembodied ideas. 
All that talk and erudition I know is in The Magus?  Closer to Dostoevsky or Pynchon than, say....some forogttten
fictioneer of good ideas with little real aesthetic embodiment?
 
 Never tried a work of fiction of his, escept one okay story in The Ebony Tower.....
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