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French major in college.............I am pretty sure it is L'Etranger by Albert Camus

I'm 99.9% certain that is L'Etranger by Camus. I don't want to google it in case I'm wrong but if nobody's confirmed that within the next couple of hours I'll go ahead and check. Or I could probably reread the book in that time anyway. Maybe I'll do that instead.

... sweet, but extremely surreal story, which I enjoyed very much - and left me feeling all happy! 30) Albert Camus - L'etranger: I bought this years ago in French, as it looked like fairly readable French - the point being that I'm OK verbally, but would like to improve my written/reading ...

14. L'Etranger by Albert Camus I first read this at University 10 years ago and decided it was due a re-read. I think I got more out of it this time. While it's difficult to accept Meursault's complicity in the 'punishment' of Raymond's mistress, you can't help admiring his ...

Ferren and the White Doctor, Ferren and the Invasion of Heaven, Dies the Fire, L'Etranger, ... I failed...

Absurdism, the last of a bit of wikisurfing started at L'Etranger. 8 - And, TA, I'd so go for Australian steampunk. It'd be quite, quite different though. We don't have the sprawling London urban sector to go off.

†The Stranger (#80) ***** by Albert Camus 04/24/08 Riverside Drive *** by Woody Allen 04/25/08

... Victor Hugo **** 5. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost *** 6. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père ***** 7. L’Étranger by Albert Camus ***** 8. Germinal by Émile Zola **** Double 9. Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo ***½ 10. Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zo ...

I first read fiction by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus when in college in the late '70s, L'Etranger , La Nausee , and No Exit introduced me to the existential school of philosophy. I have not since strayed from my allegiance to existentialism. It has been a "touchstone" in my ...

Tuxedomoon's L'Etranger supplies another Camus reference.

The Cure had 'Killing an Arab' based on The Stranger, and since it includes the lyric , "I am the Stranger, killing an Arab", that would work. (Sorry, that's Camus' _The Stranger_, I don't think the touchstone is working).

... counts as a crime story and maybe even a mystery. It is a really good book, I enjoyed it a lot. I haven't read The Outsider yet. I think I have been avoiding Albert Camus , or anything related to existentialism, ever since I struggle through Nausea :).

>19 AllieW, no wonder I didn't get The Outsider when I read it in school .... And you really must watch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

... Galaxy (quite possibly the best 5 book trilogy ever), any thing by Bernard Fall or David Halberstam, Colin Wilson's The Outsider, Kitchen Condifential by Anthony Bourdain...oh, and The Grapes of Wrath, I could read that book all day.

The Outsider (also known as The Stranger) by Albert Camus is only 119 pages long if you've got a penguin modern classics version.

And just now I finally picked up La peste and L'étranger by Albert Camus here in Paris in nice old no-ISBN paperbacks for €3 each.

The Stranger is a continuation of the idea of the Absurd that Camus had already outlined in The Myth of Sisyphus and fictionalised in the play 'Caligula'. Much reduced, absurdism is the opposition between the human search for meaning in their lives and a cold uncaring universe. For Camus people ...

In the last few months, my big disappointments have been The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth, The Stranger by Albert Camus, and Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. With the Roth, I had wanted to read this book for so long and, after many false starts with it, finally got going ...

... Chute (a.k.a. The Fall) by Albert Camus is the answer! I was looking through all of your libraries and saw L'Etranger (The Stranger), so I thought it was safe to do La Chute. I guess it isn't as widely read as I thought.

I just finished Camus' The Stranger, and I have to say that I agree with those who haven't liked it much. It could partly be my mood today (I'm just not in the right one to deal with what seems like an unnecessarily depressing ending), but I think it's also that he (Camus) seems to me to be a ...

#28 and 29 I recently read The Stranger for the first time and, although I didn't hate it, it sure wasn't my favorite reading experience of the year. :) I agree that the novel is an attempt to embody a philosophy in a character, though. Very well put. BTW, thanks so much for your and Stra ...

>28, I read The Stranger and The Plague in high school for an independent project and remember hating The Stranger and loving The Plague. I thought it seemed much more like a "real" novel, with complex characters and whatnot, in comparison to The Stranger, which seemed like it was an ...

... reading: -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -Fanny Hill -Paradise Lost -A Good Dog -Phantom Just started: -The Stranger (Albert Camus): there's been a lot of buzz here lately on this one, so I'm excited to see what the fuss is all about...

I finished The Stranger, which wasn't terrible so much as painful to go through; the ending was so abrupt and unexpected that I protested out loud when it came. Anyway, a little later, I was doing stuff around the house and started listening to The Thirteenth Tale. OMgosh! It was so ...

Finished The Stranger and started listening to The Thirteenth Tale while I was doing stuff around the house last night. It pulled me in from the first sentence and I couldn't stop listening to it ~ was up till 4 a.m. before I was able to stop when the iPod ran out of charge. Am still reading ...

60. The Stranger by Albert Camus. I don't know how to rate this one. I didn't hate it, but I didn't enjoy it. The ending came so abruptly I actually made a sound of protest. I just finished it last night and need time to consider it, so I may come back later and edit this post.

... to read The Margarets by Tepper as it is a library book that needs to be returned on Monday. Am also listening to The Stranger by Camus and struggling.

... The three individual books of The New York Trilogy are really short...around 100 pages, IIRC. Camus' books (especially The Stranger/The Outsider) are easy too, and there's no shortage books analysing them in case you need help. :) The Turn of the Screw, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The G ...

(31) The Stranger - Albert Camus {re-read}

>85, I just re-read The Stranger (first time was in high school) and I had basically the same reaction as you did. Maybe I'm missing out on the book's hidden depths, but I too was glad that I didn't have to suffer long.

Am listening to Camus' The Stranger and not enjoying it much but have been encouraged by LTers in another group/thread to keep at it. It's not really difficult or confusing, but it seems kind of simplistic and pointless. I've been assured, though, that this is only an apparency and that a good ...

... I barely paged through it, but now will sit down and spend some time with it. I'm also prompted to search out a copy of The Stranger. It got by me in high school and is a long overdue read.

... Camus takes a little effort. My copy of Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia has about five illuminating pharagraphs on The Stranger in particular. I have to tell this story on myself: I grew up in a small American Western town, under 1,000 people, and I was a great reader but rarely heard ...

#110 and #112 ~ Thanks for your insights re The Stranger too. When I've finished reading it, I'll post a short note about my take on it and perhaps we can have further discussions.

#105 ~ Oooooh, I like novels about sociopaths. ;D OK, I'm definitely going to finish The Stranger and will let everyone who has commented on it know after I have done so and maybe we can have further discussion on another thread. Thanks so much for your insights.

#100 ~ Thanks for your tip on the discussion at the end of The Stranger and for sharing your thoughts with me. It has renewed my determination to finish the novel, whether I come to agree with you or not. :)

The Stranger. Ugh, I'm glad it was a short book. It was terrible. Lovely Bones. It was fine until the end. Then it was ruined. And almost everything I've read by Gregory Maguire. I just can't get into him at all.

Oh, and The Stranger is one of my top ten favorite books. It was so beautiful and disturbing, and really got me into philosophy, much to the dismay of everyone around me.

#85, #93, #98 I thought The Stranger was a marvellous book. It wasn't about what he did or who he killed, it was about his inability to see the world the way others do. Perhaps sociopath is the word. Almost finished Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (German). Different, and I ...

#85 and #93 ~ Thanks so much for your thoughtful insights on Camus' The Stranger. Strangely enough, I agree with both of you. Without a somewhat in-depth analysis of the novel, such as the kind that is required in English 102, it appears to be simplistic writing (a la Hemingway?) with boring ...

I think Albert Camus' The Stranger is being a little misunderstood. Consider that when the French title character kills an Algerian it is analogous to a white killing a black in the '40's Deep South. So how to explain what eventually happens to the character? He violated the society norm ...

#66-Storeetllr I found The Stranger very simple and quite boring. From the translator's notes in the copy I have, it says, "Camus acknowledged employing an 'American method' in writing this book. The short, precise sentences, the depiction of a character ostensibly without consciousness, and, ...

#62 Ladybookworm ~ What did you think of The Stranger? I'm reading it now and must say I'm having a bit of rough time with it. Not that it's confusing ~ in fact, the writing is so clear and unambiguous it's almost simplistic, but I'm just not quite sure what it's actually meant to be about. Per ...

... you have already fallen far short of the mark. In fact, my total thus far is zero, although right now I'm trying to read The Stranger by Camus but admit I'm having a rough go of it. I'm really not sure what it's supposed to be about, and worse yet am not sure I really care. But I'll muddle ...

I just finished The Stranger and Slaughterhouse-five, and now I'm about halfway through 1984. Catch-22 is next. I too have made a promise to myself to read more classics this year.

Am listening to Camus' The Stranger as part of a personal challenge to read more classics in '07. It's really weird. Not sure what the point of it is yet. Not sure I care.

Still working on my re-read of The Stranger by Albert Camus. Puttering around with Backlash by Susan Faludi still but having trouble getting into it. Just started Food Politics : How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle.

In Algeria, re-reading The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Metamorphosis The Stranger Slapstick Over these past few days.

27. The Stranger by Albert Camus Fantastic read. Much better than I expected.

20.The Stranger-Albert Camus 21. A Midsummers Night's Dream-William Shakespeare

... Pet Goat (no touchstone). He read this while teeching a f1rst grade class about Anglow-Amercan relationalistikles, and The Stranger an extrasenshualistick buk about why Muslims shouldn't have gun control and why the deth pentaly is a good thing and how we shud allus luv are mothers. Rumor ...

In a second hand book of Camus' The Stranger I bought last fall I found a newspaper article from 1979 about Camus' life and death. That was pretty interesting as I probably wouldn't have bothered to read a biography about him (I didn't like the book too much).

"It was a pleasure to burn." - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury "Maman died today." -The Stranger by Albert Camus Remembering all the first sentences from novels I read in high school tends to come in little trickles. :P

... will LibraryThing always add the most popular ISBN, or can I pick the ISBN I want? Example: I have a copy of Camus's The stranger, ISBN 8501154261. But when I go to the work's site and click to add the books, it automatically adds the 0679720200 ISBN. I can change the ISBN later manually, ...

Personally I preferred The Plague to The Stranger so I would back that recommendation. (I found it contained more 'humanity'). Camus is undoubtably the best 'read' of the French existentialists. Beyond that, Kafka is a good bet.

... like "hmm, what's this then?" and clicked and found myself here. Been hooked ever since. Haven't had a chance to read The Stranger yet, but I am interested in existentialism.

... Beckman - Hertigens kartonger 24. C. J. L. Almqvist - Drottningens juvelsmycke 25. Albert Camus - Främlingen 26. Franz Kafka - Slottet 27. Vergilius (Virgil) - Aeneiden 28. Stig Dagerman - Bränt barn 29. Witold Gombrowicz - Ferdydurke ...

Above all The Stranger because by the time one journeys with the character to his end, one actually "arrives" at a happy existentialist epiphany--personally, I don't buy it whatsoever (and am not sure Camus did either) as it seems much like John Wayne Gacy's way of going out, but for the purpose ...

Re L'Etranger.....ce n'est pas un homme. C'est une idee.

... find the entry as - for some works at least - there will be books with and without accented characters L'étranger and L'Etranger for example.

... is very earnest in a paranoid sort of way and I take his narrative with a grain of salt. He reminds me of Mersault from The Stranger in a way - he's very cut off from the rest of the world and this allows him to commit some heinous acts. But that's as far as it goes, Edward G is no ...

... children's book, I now moved to the next two classics on my tbr pile. So for the next two days or so it's Albert Camus' The Stranger and Friedrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist, both in German. So far I enjoy both of them, on a completely different level. Both seem to be pretty short and ...

... ... Dostoevsky Notes From Underground Franz Kafka The Trial Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea Albert Camus The Stranger Albert Camus The Plague Saul Bellow Dangling Man Norman Mailer An American Dream Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being ...

... ... Dostoevsky Notes From Underground Franz Kafka The Trial Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea Albert Camus The Stranger Albert Camus The Plague Saul Bellow Dangling Man Norman Mailer An American Dream Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being ...

... (a play, not really fiction, I guess) - it's hilarious and deals with the famous "hell is other people" idea. Camus's The Stranger is also an accessible intro, and I think the character of Meursault would really get a class talking. (Plus, it's a classic.) I would also choose something by ...

... not merely a fashion statement or moody lighting and camera angles. Albert Camus was supposedly inspired to write The Stranger by The Postman Always Rings Twice, but I don't think anyone would seriously nominate The Stranger as noir, while TPART ...

Ooooh! Existentialism!!! I just recently read The Stranger by Albert Camus and found it very intriguing. I like to read those kinds of books, but can't, for the life of me, define exactly what existentialism is! A book you might like is The Woman in the Dunes buy Japanese ...

... it was a few classics at $1 in paperback.. Emma by Stephen King... just kidding, you know I meant Jane Austen The Stranger by Albert Camus (my old one went to shreds) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair