YOU WON'T DARE OPEN YOUR MOUTH ... BUT YOU'LL BE SCREAMING FOR HER TO ESCAPE!

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	• The Collector (Back Bay Books) John Fowles Back Bay Books, 1997 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 83 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

fascinating

The author keeps your attention throughout the book. Every detail of nearly every day of the relationship between a madman and this young woman is captivating. I wanted to know from page to page what was going to happen next. The way the author tells the story from two points of view is intriging. I thourougly recommend this as a good read.

YOU WON'T DARE OPEN YOUR MOUTH ... BUT YOU'LL BE SCREAMING FOR HER TO ESCAPE!

Frederick Clegg is a social inadequate, yet a totally obsessed and
painstakingly thorough Butterfly Collector/Bank Clerk.
When he wins £71,000/$132,000 on the English Football/Soccer Pools,
he purchases large remote Tudor country house, near Lewes, Sussex, England (Reading in the movie) with chess-like precision researches, develops and initiates a meticulously chilling (perfect?) plan to expand his collection ...

This time it's serious ... this time he wants a human female specimen ...
he wants one particular female ... he wants a beautiful young art student ...
he wants the enchanting Miranda Grey ...

An absolutely riveting, magnificently mesmeric psycho-thriller, superbly written by John Fowles and splendidly narrated by James Wilby, this is atmospheric story telling at it's very best.

John Fowles delivers a terrific, incredibly powerful suspense thriller that is almost a love story, but which culminates in a frenzied, moving and hauntingly passionate climax that is shocking and terrifying - readers are universally captivated by intense brilliance of this literary masterpiece. A superb, spellbinding, chilling thriller that haunts the mind long after listening to the audio book, reading the book; or viewing the film adaptation.

Written in the form of Diary entries from Miranda Grey's and Frederick Clegg's viewpoints - The Collector is regarded as one of the very best and most disturbing British thrillers ever written.

The book was developed into a sublime feature film starring Samantha Eggar as the beautiful Miranda Grey - the fabulous female specimen, and Terence Stamp as Frederick Clegg is the unworldly unhinged collector, respectively.

A magnificent, unabridged, uncensored, sexy, haunting, ferociously explosive, power-thriller - a 5 star masterpiece - very highly recommended.

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Amazing Work Of Literature

I read this book in my early teens and have picked it up and reread it throughout the years and no amount of time has changed the impact it had on me. A very good movie was made from the book but didn't quite capture the horror of it, although Terrence Stamp was brilliantly cast. Before the term "stalking" ever came about, this novel did on the subject of unrequited love. An innocuous Englishman is hopelessly infatuated with a beautiful young artist he feels is out of his "class". He wins a vast amount of money on the pools, buys a house in a remote suburb outside of London and kidnaps the woman, hoping time will make her fall in love with him. The story is so unusual in that it is told in sort of two diaries. His perception and hers, which differ vastly. Anything more I say would spoil the end, but the book is beautifully written. One reviewer described it as "haunting", which is perfect. You'll never forget this book, either character, and it will leave you chilled to the bone.

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The Collector is superb!!!

I read this book over the summer and was entirely enthralled by it. I loved how Fowles was able to create such a strange and unique character as clegg. I thought that it was interesting to see how the collector himself compared Miranda to one of his butterflies. I also enjoyed how later in the book we were able to see the situation from Miranda's point of view. At times I felt I could entirely relate to her desperation. People always talk about Dan Brown's books being exciting, yet they never have even heard of John Fowles. He is able to deliver suspense with such brilliant writing. I can't wait to read another of Fowles' books.

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The Collector

I absolutely adore this novel. Fowles's treatment of the relationship between the kidnapper and the kidnapped girl is superb and the tension in the story never lets up. John Fowles was a writer of extra-ordinary talent to which The Collector is a testament.

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