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    1. Successful-Try-8506 on

      The Magus by John Fowles. It’s literary fiction. Read it for the first time when I was 24. Raced through it in a couple of days (and it’s a long book). Finished it in the middle of the night, slept fitfully for a couple of hours and woke up so depressed I could no longer live in it that I started over from the beginning. This has only happened to me once.

      I turned 60 this year, and I’ve now read it about 20 times. I’ve read thousands of books, this is my all time favourite – it has everything.

      Don’t want to say too much about the plot, so I’ll just leave you with the last sentences of part one:

      “I did not think about the future. In spite of what the doctor at the clinic had said I felt certain that the cure would fail. The pattern of destiny seemed clear: down and down, and down.

      But then the mysteries began.”

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