NP but John Fowles

[Thomas Eckhardt]

FWIW: I didn't like 'The Magus' all that much, despite all the alchemy. 
But it was okay. 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', on the other hand, I 
found thoroughly enjoyable.

Thomas

Am 19.07.2011 19:13, schrieb Ian Livingston:
> My Pa read The Magus and recommended it to me somewhere back around
> 80. I never got around to it, as I was into the American labor
> struggles at the time and entered into my Marxist phase. Read nothing
> but Marx, Engels, and pre- and post-Marx for a while there. Then
> dropped into school for a few years, before dropping out again.
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> 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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