Yikes. I’m conflicted.Brilliant and chilling.I will keep spoilers to a minimum - it’s all in the book blurb anyway.I’m unsure if this type of ‘abduction’ story was effectively covered prior to the 1960s, when ‘The Collector’ was released, but there have certainly been derivatives since then. Was this the ground breaker? If so, wow.I’m reluctant to recommend this. The misogyny (deliberate? I sure hope so) may be disturbing to some. It disturbed me. The clashes of class and sense of entitlement ma...

Rounded down from roughly 3.5 stars ⭐️The Collector follows Frederick, a young man who collects butterflies and is completely obsessed by Miranda, a young woman he has seen around. When fortune strikes, Frederick comes up with a plan to capture Miranda so that she can grow to love him.This was a very mixed read for me. I absolutely loved Frederick’s pages. Getting inside his head was so fascinating I didn’t want to stop reading! He is just the creepy protagonist that I wanted, but he also had a ...

Com licença, eu volto aqui pra escrever algo decente quando a minha pressão sair do meu pé.

Fredrick is a clerk and butterfly collector who wins some money that lets him retire. Fredrick is lonely and has trouble getting along with others, the only people he really has are his aunt and cousin. He watches an art student named Miranda who starts to become his obsession. When he suddenly has a lot of free time and money on his hands, his daydreams about Miranda turn dark and he plans to kidnap her and hold her hostage in the cellar of an old cottage he buys until she gets to know him and ...

Sin tener nada que ver ni en el estilo ni en la trama, me ha recordado mucho a Extraños en un tren por el hecho de que la víctima se vea envuelta en la fantasía de otro y la impotencia que ella siente ante la imposibilidad de hacer ver a ese otro lo delirante de su propósito. También en ambos libros el personaje es un ser débil, frustrado, con problemas sexuales, con una figura materna (una tía en este caso) dominante. Muy, muy recomendable: la parte final de la novela se lee con el corazón en u...

This novel was unlike anything I’ve read before and the character of Frederick will certainly leave a lasting memory. I don’t think there’s been a character that’s made my skin crawl or forced me to talk back (shout!) at a book on so many an occasion – well done Fowles!I definitely think Book Readers should have this book on their shelf.

The collector must collect… And the hero of The Collector collects…He started with butterflies… They are so beautiful… But young beautiful girls are even more alluring… Is it possible to collect at least one? And probably everything will end up in great love after all…   ‘Do you think you’ll make me love you by keeping me prisoner?’I want you to get to know me.‘As long as I’m here you’ll just be a kidnapper to me. You know that?’I got up. I didn’t want to be with her any more.‘Wait,’ she said, c...

Impotent sociopath kidnaps beautiful art student. Told (partly) from the sociopath's perspective. That's my jam! I should have loved this book!But something left me cold. I suppose it may have been all the bitching and complaining the beautiful art student did in her stupid diary. What a helpless twit! Not to imply that I'd be brave and cunning or anything...if someone kidnapped me. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'd be a helpless twit as well. But I'll be goddamned if I'd expect anyone to enjoy readi...

Rather than go into the plot details I'd rather touch on the larger metaphors of the book in this review. Although the basic plot is chilling enough on its own (A man kidnaps a beautiful and intelligent young girl) the parts that truly disturbed me had to do more with what I believe Fowles was saying about modern culture and the rise of the middle class. Though this book is decidedly "British" in many ways, I think the issues he raises are applicable to any society where a large middle class is ...

I read this when I was very young. Young enough that anything with a sexual connotation was interesting to me. Even really perverse deviations like this. A collector of butterflies 'collects' a girl and holds her prisoner. His deviation is far deeper than merely sex. But of course, sex is implied all the time.There are two sorts of kept women, those gold-diggers who actively sought it, and those trophy wives who had never planned for it and had been actively courted. This is a trophy wife by for...