So butterflies and a lock of hair and a key...yup, all the things a burgeoning serial killer needs. I think this novel must have influenced Thomas Harris somewhat. The novel, written in 1965, is the story of an obsessed man who decides to collect a beautiful girl. The first third of the book is interesting as we get a delusional narrator who attempts to explain his plight. He loves her, therefore he must capture, imprison, and look at her. And that's really as far as it goes...looking, as he is incapable of the act itself. The middle third (more really) is from Miranda (the captive's voice) and I am hear to tell that John Fowles does not capture the female voice like, say, S. E. Hinton does the teen male voice in The Outsiders. In fact, Miranda is wholly unlikable, judgmental, holier than thou, and a bit of a jerk. Maybe that's the point...I did not feel sorry for her until the end, an end I will not ruin here. Fowles, is no Nabokov that's for sure.
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