Reading "The Magus"

I finished reading The Magus today. I'll admit, after reading the last sentence, a part of me wanted to throw the book against the wall. Perhaps this makes me foolish or naive, but I don't care. I guess I just had so many unanswered questions. But, after all, "An answer is a form of death" as Fowles would say. 

What I'm about to say may seem unusual or even blasphemous to some people in this class but, for me, reading is a chore. I must say that I've never found myself particularly enveloped by a text and you will probably rarely find me reading for fun. However, The Magus is a whirlwind. It reminds me of a car accident. Much of what I read seemed somewhat disturbing or unsettling, but I just couldn't put it down. 

As I read The Magus, I was immediately expecting something magical to happen. During Nicholas’s first encounter with Lucy, it appears as if she was able to be in two places at once, but it turned out that she actually had a twin. Also, his experience with the performance on the beach and the masked experimenters during his “trial” both appeared to have magical elements. However, the novel turned out to be complete realistic fiction. Though not likely, all the events that transpired could theoretically happen in real life.