anyone want to discuss?

masterpeice or wanna-be american noir overrated drivel?

neither.

i dont really understand why people say it changed the way writers write, etc.. all that really high praise for it. i thought it was a good book, an interesting pattern of events and reflections. but nothing mindblowing.

yeah, true.

it took me maybe two hours to read it, but even after that short, the indifference rubs off on you, at least for me. i think most people cant quite wrap their brains around that kind of unfeeling, or rather selective feelings of one human. its a bit fascinating in that sense. theres no malice, no remorse either, but you also cannot say that there was any sense of rebellion as motivation either.
it just is, its so damn objective in a way.

it seems like camus was trying to get more inside the head of the character from 'the postman always rings twice' but i felt there was more to understand that characters actions by. the atmosphere of his world was just more sleazy and sinister, as were some of the other characters. the stranger was almost straight existential dilemma.

blahh, whatever im so bad a ttalking about books.

I read the english translation and it was so...bland. I've tried at least a couple times to read it but I've never gotten through the first few pages.