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Read amazing Amazon reviews on Camus so I've gotten about 100 pages into my first book and find it's boring as shit. I couldn't read it anymore.

Does it get better farther in and are all his books like this? I thought they were supposed to be edgy, pseudo-philosophical reads not narratives of relentless tedium.

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>> No.1126630

Wow, I didn't think it was boring at all.
What do you usually read?

>> No.1126638
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1126638

>I thought they were supposed to be edgy, pseudo-philosophical

>> No.1126644

>>1126630

Well previously I was on a tirade of classic lit. Wilde, Dumas, Dostoevsky etc.

>> No.1126651

camus probably wrote all those reviews using sockpuppets

>> No.1126656

The Plague is so fucking good. Probably my favourite of his works, I love it to bits - though I won't say much more so as not to spoil it.

>> No.1126667

>philosophical novels should like, totally blow my mind man

>> No.1126671

I suppose I'll give it another go.

What does /lit/ think of the Stranger and the Fall?

>> No.1126672

>>1126644

Camus is tough to read. The messages he is trying to convey aren't as obvious as they are in Dostoevsky.

>> No.1126675

>>1126671

If you can put aside any initial gripes with the narration style the stranger is amazing.

>> No.1126683

>>1126675

I didn't personally like The Stranger nearly as much as The Plague. The latter just seemed much more powerful to me, as well as making more of an emotional impact.

>> No.1126713

>>1126683
well it was super brief, think the stranger's meant to be read with the others: A Happy Death, The Fall, The Rebel as well. The Plague is more of an dense standalone

>> No.1126967

>>1126671

I think The Fall is actually the best of all his books. The Stranger is also very good, but very ambiguous in its meaning.

>> No.1126985

The myth of Sisyphus and other essays.

>> No.1127025

Agreeing with OP, The Plague wasn't that great. But OP, don't worry, because The Stranger is fucking amazing.

>> No.1127038

>>1126713
I would say that, to the contrary, The Plague should be considered almost as a thematic 'sequel' to The Stranger. The latter presents the problems of nihilism and disillusionment; the former provides us with a solution.

>> No.1127715

>>1126671

Read the Stranger than the Plague.

>> No.1127750

You are now aware that The Plague was a reply to 1984. Camus deeply admired Orwell. Note the sections where they talk about 1+1 etc, and also the plague being a pervasive oppressor just like the party.

Also the fall is his best work, but it's best read at the end of his ouevre, similar to Nietzche's Zarathusa.

>> No.1127772

Existentialism was the most overrated abortion of an artistic movement that ever shat out a shit.

>>I am a repressed bourgeoisie
>>My life is so "inauthentic"
>> I must challenge "taboos" and "laws"
>> I am now happier, despite being destitute/dead/disease-ridden/despised by all

There, I summarized em all for you, now go read something older than Coca Cola.

>> No.1127812

>>1127772

wtf are you talking about? Existentialism isn't an artistic movement. It's a philosophical movement. Plus, Camus wasn't an Existentialist, he was an Absurdist.