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The Collector by John Fowles
2.0
2 - 2.5
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i really don't know how i felt about this whole thing.
i think i might need to give this another read one day.
the bolinda narrator was amazing though- absolutely outstanding. a 5/5.
this novel wasn't what i was expecting which is both good and bad.
good in the sense that it wasn't cliche and a copy-paste "captor r*pes his captive and makes her bear his child"
bad in the sense that frederick was so-passive? as a captor?
also so uninteresting? lacking in so many ways and as a main character really failed to make the reader like or hate him.
all that i really garnered from him was that he was inept for the world.
really inept to function as a member as society not because of any sort of inherent fault beget by himself- just that some people are born into this world and raised in a household that teaches a set of values along with acceptable mannerisms that equip them in a more superior way, allowing them to not only survive but to thrive in society as well.
frederick unfortunately did not have that sort of luck.
miranda did.
and so we kind of just watch the two go back and forth, their differences quite stark.
miranda as a character was good. interesting enough, not super snobby, surprisingly maiden-like (if u kno what i mean..........................................). but i found her waffling about GP (oops called him JP before) a bit of a chore to listen to even though the bolinda narrator was a 5/5.
i don't understand how so many people that have committed similar crimes to frederick used this book as inspiration.
there really is nothing in this book that portrays kidnapping in an attractive light.
// possible spoilers
frederick literally just displays miranda. he traps her in a room. his negligence towards the conclusion of the book is equivalent to a cat playing with a dead mouse, morbid and sick. except he isn't even doing it intentionally. frederick is completely ill-equipped to function in a society and he knows it. he doesn't care.
overall, between a 2 and a 2.5.
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i really don't know how i felt about this whole thing.
i think i might need to give this another read one day.
the bolinda narrator was amazing though- absolutely outstanding. a 5/5.
this novel wasn't what i was expecting which is both good and bad.
good in the sense that it wasn't cliche and a copy-paste "captor r*pes his captive and makes her bear his child"
bad in the sense that frederick was so-passive? as a captor?
also so uninteresting? lacking in so many ways and as a main character really failed to make the reader like or hate him.
all that i really garnered from him was that he was inept for the world.
really inept to function as a member as society not because of any sort of inherent fault beget by himself- just that some people are born into this world and raised in a household that teaches a set of values along with acceptable mannerisms that equip them in a more superior way, allowing them to not only survive but to thrive in society as well.
frederick unfortunately did not have that sort of luck.
miranda did.
and so we kind of just watch the two go back and forth, their differences quite stark.
miranda as a character was good. interesting enough, not super snobby, surprisingly maiden-like (if u kno what i mean..........................................). but i found her waffling about GP (oops called him JP before) a bit of a chore to listen to even though the bolinda narrator was a 5/5.
i don't understand how so many people that have committed similar crimes to frederick used this book as inspiration.
there really is nothing in this book that portrays kidnapping in an attractive light.
// possible spoilers
frederick literally just displays miranda. he traps her in a room. his negligence towards the conclusion of the book is equivalent to a cat playing with a dead mouse, morbid and sick. except he isn't even doing it intentionally. frederick is completely ill-equipped to function in a society and he knows it. he doesn't care.
overall, between a 2 and a 2.5.