MAGUS Mass Market Paperback – Deckle Edge, 1 May 1985

John Fowles' metafiction - The Magus, is an absorbing story. The protagonist gets embroiled in a master trickster's illusions that become darker as the story progresses.This is a literary classic that is engaging, eccentric at times and intense throughout. The masterfully created confusion between what's real and what is not keeps you in a dreamy world for the better part of the book's length. To try and sum it up in this review is impossible (at least for me), this book demands a read and then another to fully understand the intricacies of this fantastic world.

There were some brownish dot dirt marks on the rim of the book.

I liked the foreward in the book. Cool! by Fowels himself....

GOOD!

The book seems fine on the exterior but the print quality is extremely poor which makes it seem like a copy of the original.I had to go with this since it is hard to find in bookstores

One word - Boring.This book is the product of a writer who has too high an opinion about his vocabulary and philosophical ideas. Frankly, it felt like John Fowels suffered from a serious case of verbal diarrhoea when writing this.The characters are so shallow and the plot just pointless. I listened to the audiobook and while the narrator was great, that's where the magic of The Magus ended.Skip the weeks of self-inflicted torture and pick up a book that's actually worth reading.