Do you know those books whose covers are so inexpressive that you don’t expect to find anything great within them? But then you go on and you find out they actually enshrine a treasure? This happened to me when I decided to turn the first pages of “The collector”.
It’s not necessary to be an avid reader to finish it in a few hours. The author manages to tell a curious and electrifying story in an innovative style and using a few pages – the number could not be more appropriate.
[A quick digression: I believe some books are shorter than they should be whereas others are longer than they should. Among the formers I place “The picture of Dorian Gray” and among the latter “The lord of the rings”].
Back to the point: “The collector” describes the case of a maniac who manages to kidnap the woman he’s in love with (tough he doesn’t really know her). Actually, it’s not exactly a description, but a first person narrative, with the additional element that it is told from the point of view of the kidnapper and also of his victim.
The maniac in case is particularly different from any other I had ever seen on TV shows, movies and books. He’s disgusting, of course, but in a different way; you don’t feel like hating him, you feel like despising him, just the way his victim does. But you surely will feel like despising the victim either.
One of the most interesting moments happens when she encourages him to read “The catcher in the rye”. Due to her prejudicial and limited point of view, she believes that he’s going to identify himself with the young Holden Caulfield and that it is going to make all the difference for her… poor creature. His opinion over the book – he simply doesn't “see much point in it” – sounds hilarious.
Please, don’t think that I don’t sympathize with the victim. Despite her “la-di-da voice” and snobbish ways she didn’t deserve to go through what she did. It is just that the whole story is so unreal that I don’t feel bad at involuntarily laughing at it. Maybe I'm still shocked with the end of the story.
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