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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
This is only the second novel I've read by him. The other one was "The Magus," one that I read when in my mid-twenties. That novel, as they say, blew me away. It may be one of those novels that is more appropriate for a certain age group, such as discovering Thomas Wolfe, when at a young age.
One that I have yet to read is "The French Lieutenant's Woman," but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Don
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Originally Posted by BelleZora
I read The French Lieutenant's Woman back in the early 1970's. It was probably my favorite book I read in that decade. I still remember the beautiful last paragraph pretty much word for word. Must have struck a chord. It influenced my reading choices for years, sending me on a Thomas Hardy and existentialist binge. I then spent the 1980's reading all of Thomas Merton as an antidote, while also trying to lighten up. Ah, youth.
The Magus and The Collector were very different books, but I loved the way he wrote anything.
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Loved both the
Magus (can't pretend I
really understood the end, though) and
The Collector, but despite trying three times (!) I could never finish
The French Lieutenant's Woman. Perhaps I was too much of a callow youth, more in search of horrible happenings or the eternal search for the meaning of life, rather than what I saw as a rather turgid romance story. As I say, callow youth...