The Stranger
1942 • 134 pages

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Average rating3.9

15

After finishing this, I feel like a need to go find a time machine and go back one of my college English Lit classes and chat about existentialism, narcissism, indifference and depression until we're going in circles.

Overall, an interesting and well written read. I get why it's considered a classic, why it's important in literature and why so many people feel so strongly about it. And yet, I was bored (that is when I wasn't depressed). Books with very little plot, lots of randomness, absurdity and no meaning to life are apparently not my cup of tea.

May 31, 2016