The Magus
Could anyone help me with the book I'm reading - The Magus? It does not seem like a good book to me, and yet it has fairly high renown etc. Basically the main character appears quite juvenile and annoying, the dialogue between him and the old man is quite pretentious and annoying, not to mention imperfect, and alot of the intellectually creative bits of the book seem a bit amateurish - for instance:
"There are three types of intelligent person: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind."
Blah! So, am I just reading the book wrongly; is it going over my head? Are the dialogues pretentious for a reason; the main character juvenile to attain enlightenment later on? Or is the book just famous because it has an engaging title and touches (badly, it seems so far) on Jungian stuff?
I am maybe 2/5ths of the way through.
"There are three types of intelligent person: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind."
Blah! So, am I just reading the book wrongly; is it going over my head? Are the dialogues pretentious for a reason; the main character juvenile to attain enlightenment later on? Or is the book just famous because it has an engaging title and touches (badly, it seems so far) on Jungian stuff?
I am maybe 2/5ths of the way through.