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The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. Dude helps a woman murder her husband and the aftermath. So much of this was untagged dialogue and yet it wasn't difficult to follow and it made the prose bits pop out even more. Noted as the inspiration for The Stranger so next I read...
The Stranger by Albert Camus. A lot of this book is very boring and jerky to read but it's also kind of essential to understanding Meursault, possibly the most detached main character in the literary canon. The way he's eventually condemned more by people's perception of him than for his actual crime is compelling.
I'm reading a lot of books off this 50 Great Classic Novels Under 200 Pages list and I keep losing the link so I'm just going to put it here for myself for inevitable future reference. Love a book under 200 pages.
The Stranger by Albert Camus. A lot of this book is very boring and jerky to read but it's also kind of essential to understanding Meursault, possibly the most detached main character in the literary canon. The way he's eventually condemned more by people's perception of him than for his actual crime is compelling.
I'm reading a lot of books off this 50 Great Classic Novels Under 200 Pages list and I keep losing the link so I'm just going to put it here for myself for inevitable future reference. Love a book under 200 pages.
