Currahee!
A tenner for this
Kashinda
it wasn’t a fix, I swear
Poor Playercey
Slug and not physical
Poor Playercey
Slug and not physical
Walt/Dr Colossus. Talk me through Camus’ the stranger (or whatever the french name is)
I wanted to love it, and it was ok, but what makes it good for you? I know it’s in many people’s top fives and would love to understand.
I like existential topics for reading so was expecting to love it. Maybe I built it up too much for myself
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Mikey
Human Rights Respecter
Is l'etranger the one where he bitches out the priest in prison near the end? That's a great book. What's the one where it's just one side of a drunken conversation in amsterdam and it mirrors dante's layers of hell? Dug that too.
Hated L'Etranger when I had to read it for Higher French - a really weird choice to give to school pupils whose only aim is to understand and write a short summary of a novel Can remember struggling through a chapter where all he does is watch people from his balcony like 'what the fuck is this' Maintained that hatred right up until I read it again as part of my MLitt, at which point I was more able to understand it. Still wouldn't say it's a particular favourite tbh. The other novel 2na is referencing is La Chute, which I liked a bit better.
Would recommend that anyone who enjoyed L'Etranger take a look at The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud ( Meursault Contre-Enquête in French - Daoud is Algerian, but wrote the original in French rather than Arabic. Being an intellectual, I have only read this version and not the English translation). It's written in the first person from the perspective of the brother of the Arab Meursault kills, and explores the failings of post-independence Algeria. Daoud is primarily a journalist, and in that capacity is actually a bit of a clown imo, but it's a really good novel.
Bit late to the party re. the Higher English texts, but IIRC I did Animal Farm. Can also remember doing Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Lord of the Flies, Death of a Salesman, and William Golding's The Inheritors - another novel which, like L'Etranger, I was nowhere near equipped to understand at the time and thought was some boring weird shit about neanderthals rather than a musing on human nature.
Poor Playercey
Slug and not physical
Kashinda
it wasn’t a fix, I swear
Walter Sobchak
over the line
Going to take a few of the suggestions here and start reading them.
I’ve started with The Catcher in the Rye, started it yesterday and have almost finished it. Not sure if it’s just because of the exposure to Trump and his speaking style but that’s who I’m reminded of initially from Holden caulfield’s thought process.
Not sure which to go for next
Walter Sobchak
over the line
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