/lit/ - Literature

You clearly aren't the target audience for the book then.

>>8642466
What are you on about I said I liked it. You've got nothing to say about why it's praised so much?

>>8642466
Also it was a lot like Nausea and I preferred that.

>>8642587
You would know why it is praised so highly if you were the target audience for the book.

I'm reading it right now (20 pages left).

How the hell is this fucking book a masterpiece of existential lit?

I haven't come across anything profound, and the book reads like something a high school student wrote. It fucking sucks.

>Guy's mom dies. Guy doesn't feel sad.
>Guy meets up with his ladyfriend.
>Guy goes to the beach.
>Guy kills sandnigger.
>Goes to jail.

Big fucking whoop.

>>8642605
It's absurdism not existentialism. So there's your first issue.

>>8642605
Because he's completely detached from the emotions and realities of other people. He exists totally on his own and only by becoming a murderer does he fulfill any social role at all (being executed in front of a crowd)

Have you ever considered thinking about something, or do you need themes to be given to you with a spoon.

>>8642455
What is the book about? What is the point?
LAUGH MY FUCKING ASS OFF

>>8642595
>this fucking meme again

>>8642455
I had the same problem. Apparently the book is supposed to be eye-opening because it gives you the unique insight of a diseased mind, and forces you to see the world in a different way. Personally, I could relate to the protagonist to a greater extent than I would like to admit, so the first time I read it, I legit just thought that it was supposed to an ordinary novel. I liked it better than most novels I've read, but only because I can't relate to the protagonists in most novels. So, in other words, the book's supposed to be weird, if you're already in any way neurodivergent you probably won't even realise that.

>>8642691
Completely wrong. If you'd outgrown your bullshit you'd have at least seen the humor in it. Try again later.

So this thread and some reviews I read that gave it either 1 or 5 stars suggest that most people either love or hate this book without much reason or middle ground. I thought it was okay and the end with the priest was really good. Still Nausea was way better.

Read this instead.

>>8642466
What is the target audience?

>>8642605
The entire book is essentially a set-up for the last 4-5 pages where he unloads the actual message

It's coming, anon

>>8642455
>>8642605
>>8642691
I knew making this picture was a good idea.

>>8642455
What Anons are trying to say when they say "You would understand it if you were the target audience" is that the people who rate this book so highly live as the main character lives and see what the main character sees and has relationships as the main character does so it becomes something they relate with.

>>8642935
No, they mean OP is still a pleb who can't join the dots in order to find meaning of any kind

>>8642904
You say that but most of lit even upon reading it don't seem to understand.

I really don't get it. It's such a simple, straightforward novel, with a pretty clear message that a sizeable amount of lit brutalises with their shitty interpretations and misunderstandings.

>>8642605
These are the type of people browsing /lit/ these days.

>>8642955
I read it when I was 16 and understood it perfectly fine, what is with these people

>>8642605
I'm reading your post right now (halfway through).

How the hell is this fucking post meant to be a critique of anything?

I haven't come across anything profound, and the post reads like something a high school student wrote. It fucking sucks.

>Critiquing a book's message without having finished it
>Missing the whole point
>Lacking the critical thinking schools to understand a book a teenager should be able to

Big fucking whoop.

I hate it when people dismiss this book for "simplicity" and I think it's mainly because of it's straightforward prose and plot. More than simple I woukd classify it as concentrated and concrete.

>>8642979
I hate how people miss the obvious fact that it's extremely simple for a good reason.

>>8642924
I've read all three and I understood the other two. The Stranger jsut sucked.

The final 4-5 pages summarised his entire message, which was weak as fuck.

The rest of the book was like reading a laundry list of things Mersault did. I went to the beach today. We went for a swim. Then we sat down on the beach. After that we walked back up the stairs to the house were I had a few smokes.

It sucked.

>>8643015
Anon I think you mistook reading this post >>8642904 for reading the actual book

>>8643015
The picture isn't meant to say anything about the quality of the books, only that they are a good test for seeing if someone is a pleb.

>>8642605
at the very end he realizes he may just have possibly have made an error in his approach to life in general

>>8642594
what the fuck though

>>8642605

>Guy's mom dies. Guy doesn't feel sad.
>Guy meets up with his ladyfriend.
>Guy goes to the beach.
>Guy kills sandnigger.
>Goes to jail.

You missed out the trial where his entire life attitude is tested by society.

Book is overblown. Much like the jury and the crowd finding meaning behind the minutia of French dude's life, three generations of literary critics have founding meaning in The Stranger where there is none.

>>8643400
This. That part was heavy, could happen to me.

>>8643489
>Much like the jury and the crowd finding meaning behind the minutia of French dude's life
>three generations of literary critics have founding meaning
>founding
Why did I have to be surrounded be idiots who can't read a simple book right?

>>8642924
for the third Im pretty sure wilde creates two explicit interpretations but then again im only halfway through-