/lit/ - Literature

>>2815367
I knew a snide, cynical statement would lure people back.
Want to discuss the book?

And just when the discussion pick up, everyone finds new threads to waste their 47-second attention span on.
I would say everyone went out side to play with their friends and go on adventures but we all know that would be a lie.

>>2815282
That occurred to me as well, and I'm not saying "I'm right and your wrong" but rather "There's probably more than one way to interpret this book, let's talk about them all".
Now going with yours, I was under the impression that they envied Meursault's care-free lifestyle and thats why they killed him.

>>2815214
You are entitled to your opinion but I disagree with it.
He did much more than that, although you wouldn't know it from how quickly everyone tried to forget about him.
they did that because he reminded them of themselves but when they saw all the death surrounding a man they saw their reflection in, they were reminded of their own mortality and the impermanence of everything so they quickly killed him and put him out of their minds.
Just like in the Myth of Sisyphus at the height of their self-consciousness they destroy everything and start back at the bottom.

>>2815197
I could say the same about you.
How are YOU useful?
How does YOUR life have any meaning?
You exist and that is all, what you chose to do with that information is up to you.

I felt sad because all he did was try to help people and they ended up killing him for not spending enough time with his mother.
I found him to be very relatable and a character i could sympathize with, same with Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment.

>That feeling when this got a movie deal but the Fahrenheit 451 movie Frank Darabont has had the script for since 2004 still isn't being made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1tnLj2aJmE&feature=related