A review by dajanplackovic
The Collector by John Fowles

4.0

The Collector is a competently written thriller, which succeeds in making the reader empathize with both captor and victim, despite both of them being horrible people, while at the same time instilling in the reader the dread of captivity and of being unable to find affection in others due to trauma. Fowles' writing is beautifully convincing, if occasionally annoying when he attempts to emulate the vernacular of an uneducated working-class man, and the themes of class and the idea of the division between the many and the few (which sounds quite fascist, but comes from the pen of a liberal arts student with a questionable worldview), while not particularly developed, are presented well enough. All in all, competently written, quite good in parts, nothing special, but nonetheless a good read.