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WWW Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 08:25 PM
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Favorite Albert Camus book
I loved The Stranger more than The Plague, but both were great..Your thoughts?
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 08:33 PM
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1. the shrub
I awoke one morning in my front yard ...a shrub!

Nightmarish.
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WWW Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 08:36 PM
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2. I dont' understand? n/t
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 08:50 PM
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6. 'I awoke one morning a cockroach' ?
Kafka - 'Metamorphosis' - ?
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 08:40 PM
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3. The Plague was enough for me
Edited on Sun Jan-04-04 08:43 PM by Rowdyboy
It depressed the hell out of me. I never read the Stranger

Then I read Sartre-Nausea. Only time in my life I have ever contemplated suicide. Then I gave up reading existentialists.

Best move I ever made.
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DODI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 09:17 PM
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9. I loved the Plague
I found to be a rather "light" read -- we had just read Jude the Obscure by Hardy -- that one had me contemplating suicide, the Plague was a sunny walk in the park after that!
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 08:48 PM
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4. The Plague was the first book I ever read 'relatively easily' in French
I was fascinated.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 08:49 PM
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5. The Fall? Mark Smith dug on it, yo.
Named an album after a Nabokov, too!
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WWW Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 08:58 PM
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7. I love Nabokov! n/t
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Red_Storm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 09:01 PM
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8. Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

I always liked his non fiction work the most.....the chapter on capital punishment is fantastic.....
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