/lit/ - Literature

Literally me

>just finish Crying of Lot 49
>get recommended this book
>that ending
Honestly I'm so fucking pissed and blue balled, I'm going to find whoever recommended this and punch them in the throat.

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The Magus by John Fowles made me feel weird for about a week after I finished reading it.

So this is an anti-degen book right?

Conchis is clearly representing the Jew in Western Society. >Wealthy and educated. >Survived the Nazi's by collaborating and selling out resistance.
>undermines traditional values by doing the ultimate jewish science (even the Kabbalah)
>subverts white europeans to sexual degeneracy
>hooks the girls he psyops into bbc
>makes young diseffected white men watch

>Letting your wife fuck a negro is actually intellectual and mystical
Was he right?

Are his other books this good? This is now one of my favorite books.

I don't know how I feel about The Magus anymore. It started out really god but I'm getting towards the end now and I think it's just turning into a bit of a coomer book. Fowles could have stood to jerk off before writing in some of these places. I hope the pay off is worth it. It's been good, but frustrating. I don't know what I'm feeling.

Does anyone have an opinion on this?

Ignore the fact that Fowles is a highly competent writer. This was so long winded and exhausting. Degenerate and unsympathetic characters. Hyper focus of trivial body language. I read this because some anon posted a thread that it was his favorite book of all time. Now it isn’t absolute shit, the writing is good, but I did not like it whatsoever. I was hoping for Eyes Wide Shut and got the most pedantic thing possible. If you are not a hedonistic fag, skip it.

Just read this. Found it enjoyable, but it reminded me how stunted my natural-world vocab is.

If you were going to write a novel requiring you to describe picturesque natural-world scenes -- bordering on adjectivitis -- what resources would you use to develop your ability?

Incidentally, I have the same problem with fashion, food, and other everyday things. It would help if I could find a "vocab for creative writers" resource of some kind.

I read this 3 years ago and it ruined literature for me because not a single novel has come close since. I mostly stick with genre fiction like golden age mysteries because nothing will ever top this utter masterpiece.