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Originally posted by castle outsider
hey cool! i found someone else in the forums taht read this book! cool
i've read it as well. It's all right, not that great in my opinion. It's only gained acclaim because of its ideas and not for its writing or story or anything else i think. It goes really fast, it can take you literally an hour to get through, but not saying that that's a bad thing. Furthermore, it is rather predictable. Anyway, I'm just saying don't expect to much everyone. Sartre will do anyone better probably though i've never read any of his stuff in their entirety and only excerpts (i'm just banking on the fact that his plays and the like are rather decent seeing how he won the nobel prize in literature), Camus doesn't really strike me as that great of an author, and is outsold by Sartre nearly 2:1. But if you want to learn about existentialism, this narrative could summate it very vaguely for you. Read "Being and Nothingness" by Sartre, i think that will help anyone who wants to learn about existentialism that is occupied in "The Stranger." Heidegger and Kierkegaard write about existentialism too yes, but not in the same approach that Camus illustrates, so...just saying that to show i realize there are other authors hoho 
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