Originally Posted By: Capo de La Cosa Nostra
How do you like the film, PB? (I think it's rubbish.) I imagine the novel is richer than the film.

Currently reading A Maggot by my beloved Fowles. It's amazing. I love how the vast majority of it is written in the narrator-less form of a Q&A murder investigation, and yet the questioner's humanity and personality shines through from dialogue alone. Fowles is a fine linguist (my favourite, actually), but he also knows his history, too...

Any Fowles fans?


Love Fowles. THE EBONY TOWER is my favorite short story collection ever. Period. That's all she wrote.

Read Lehane's MYSTIC RIVER. It's MUCH richer in vision than the film.


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