Ariel’s Reviews > The Moon and Sixpence > Status Update

I'm reading a different edition than the one listed here and it goes to 280-something.

I started to read "The Magician," but the Intro and Autobiographical Note were enough for me to lose interest. The fact that a great deal of it is almost verbatim plagiarism on mystical and arcane "knowledge," and that the main character is based on that liar, braggart, fraud, and snake oil salesman Aleister Crowley (aka "the biggest douche of the early 20th century) made me decide I just did not need to read it.