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A review by elfs29
The Collector by John Fowles
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.75
I feel like I will continue to unravel the complexities of this book and its characters, the intersections between class and male privilege, the psychological horrors and demands. Especially Miranda’s character I found fascinatingly constructed, not the perfect victim but of course a victim nonetheless, how her determination and will to survive are both admirable and a consequence of her privilege.
I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.