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It's amazing how quickly you can get through audio books while you are working from home (thank you snow day)! That being said, this book was only 4 discs long with the actual novel only taking up the first 3...the final disc was notes, afterwards, commentary, etc.
I am glad I finally read "The Stranger". It seems like one of those books that so many people have read or that is often listed on lists of "most influential books". ...more
I am glad I finally read "The Stranger". It seems like one of those books that so many people have read or that is often listed on lists of "most influential books". ...more
Nov 2020 reread. I did not really remember this book, and picked it up at a book trade. I found it very interesting this time around.
Mersault has a fiance (they have been seeing each other for...weeks? But did used to work at the same office. He has a decent office job. He has a few friends. But he has virtually no social skills, and seemingly experiences little emotion. He put his mother in a home and never visited, and then begins seeing Marie the day after the funeral. He worries about his n ...more
Mersault has a fiance (they have been seeing each other for...weeks? But did used to work at the same office. He has a decent office job. He has a few friends. But he has virtually no social skills, and seemingly experiences little emotion. He put his mother in a home and never visited, and then begins seeing Marie the day after the funeral. He worries about his n ...more
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