/lit/ - Literature

>>20464052
If you give me a good answer, I'll post a cool pepe :)

>>20464052
the only reason I remember this book being a thing is because I remember anons saying that it has some sort of super fetishy cuckold scene in it which made me immediately nope out of the prospect of ever reading it.

>>20464164
Yikes!

Fidel pepe wants answers :(

>>20464052
Original, abridgments are an abomination. Now post your cool pepe.

>>20464052
both are for cucks lmao

>>20464052

>>20464164
I read about 50 pages and dropped it. Oxford Chad bangs some engaged BPD slut from Australia and tells her it's ok to be a slut.

>>20464267
>good answer
Sorry, nigga, you gotta work for it!
Let's see that effort post :)

>>20464267
the revised edition is longer

>>20464052
The revised. Fowles said it was the better version.

>>20464324
How come?

>>20464557
Sex scenes are more explicit, and so is the ending.
(haven't read either version, but this is what I got browsing around the forums. Just ordered the revised edition)

>>20464643
give me a brief synopsis pl0x
im really considering grabbing a copy of this down at my library because the cover seems cool and I like the title
Whats your personal rating for this book out of 10?

>>20464653
I haven't read it. Just finished The Collector by Fowles aswell, which I found to be pretty good.
The Magus strikes me as either a top 10 book or an absolute crap, I'll read it and see for myself.

>>20464673

The Magus is in my top 10, but I think it's not for everyone. The pervading sense of repressed doubt and anxiety is what really stuck with me. I remember thinking somewhere around the middle of the book that I could not even tell what was waiting for me at the end of a sentence. Nothing captures the descent into delusion and madness so well for me – and its something I've personally experienced, though ironically years after reading the book. I wonder if I knew it was waiting for me and thats why it resonated so much even then.

Collector is a much easier read, and still very good. I never finish The French Lieutenant's Woman, but it has such a different tone to the other two that I think I just wasn't in the right gear for it. All three are quite different in style as well.

>>20464052
Original.

>>20464052
Fowles is a boring, moralising, faggot who was probably a literal cuckold. Don't bother reading anything by him.
As a side, 'The Magus' is unparalleled misogyny fuel. Alison is the biggest bitch in literature. No contest.

>>20467343

Fowles was unapologetically a massive mysoginist, antisemite and classist. I would have thought 4chan loved that shit.

>>20464052
What's the difference? I read the original.

>>20464052
All these replies and still no answer. :(

>>20467912
The ambiguous ending of the original is made more clear
The sex scenes are more explicit

That's about it

>>20469007
>The ambiguous ending of the original is made more clear
Do you think this improves the story, or detracts from it?

>>20464275
some nigga wrote my biography. damn.

>>20464264
kys fidel hijo de puta mas algeria no pudiera tener que ahora que estas muerto

>>20470038
in english, doc

>>20470045
fidel is a fag and sucks cocks in hell

>>20470061
Hell isn’t real, stop simping for a crumb of pussy on fucking /lit/ of all places you dumb autist

>>20467898
And he made his name writing a novel about an incel who captures and murders a woman. What could be more 4chan than that?

>>20470008
What's ambiguous on the original ending is the state of the romance between the main character and one of his love interests.
Frankly I'd say it neither adds nor detracts, mainly because after reading the original you can simply google about the new ending and see what Fowles changed/added.
I'd say if you want explicit sex scenes go for the revised version.

>>20464653
English lad goes to a small island in Greece to become an english professor. Gets involved with a mysterious figure called Maurice Conchis (The Magus) and some equally mysterious girls who lives with Conchis, all of them manipulating him into something that isn't revealed until the end of the book. The best part of the book is the prose, it really captures the reader and is a great example of very good writing, but the plot and the setting are both great as well.
There are some shitty things on the book: a lot of it will leave you blueballed, there is indeed a cucking scene, and the ending can be a little bit disappointing depending on what you were expecting of it. But it's a great book nonetheless. I've read it in 2020 and can still remember very vividly a lot of things about it, and that's saying something because since 2020 I've read more than 70 books.

>>20465857
This sums it up well. I have never read a book that had me questioning its narrative and what is real so much. Fowles experiments with narratives in all of his books and in a different way in each. The Maggot is a collection of interviews on an event that is told wildly differently from every character's perspective. French Lieutenants Woman breaks off the narrative quite often to provide you with historical information or him talking about how the characters are tropes, and even in one part of the book copies word for word from a 300 year old English novel to explain a brothel. Daniel Martin is a bildungsroman, about a woman writing a bildungsroman about a character who may or may not represent Fowles in some way.
Still haven't read The Collector yet, though

>>20470045
It's Spanglish gibberish

>>20470157
fidel is a fag and you'll choke on his cock in hell

>>20472159
>being this illiterate
lmao