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    <body><![CDATA[I don’t know what to do with these stars anymore.  I give stars to books and then I think, ‘god, you give five stars to everything, people will think you are terribly undiscriminating’ – so then I give four stars or even three stars to some books.  Then I look back and it turns out that that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25770679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If every few words of praise I’ve seen for “The Stranger” over my lifetime materialized into small chunks of rock in space, there’d be enough sh!t to conjure up the Oort Cloud. Much like this distant collection of debris bordering the outer solar system, I can’t really comprehend the accla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21669312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is simply written and a rather quick read, but the depth Camus manages to convey through this simplicity is astounding. I think a problem a lot of people have with this book is that they fail to look beyond the whole &quot;what is the meaning of life&quot; message. While an interesting ques...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22789681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Stranger is considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical novels of the 20th Century. In most college courses on Existentialism (a philosophy which holds that human beings create the meaning and essence of their own lives) The Stranger is usually the first thing you will read....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9795894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrator, Meursault, is a fascinating character in that he has an incredible sense of material resignation about him. He absolutely rejects all concepts of importance to the absurd trivialities of life while at the same time living with such simple pleasure that one can't help but smirk reading ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14416523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember loving this book as a teenager, and re-reading it this week, I have felt the same.  Meursault is one of the most fascinating characters I've ever read, and at the same time I've always felt a certain kinship to him.  Why isn't it okay to not care as deeply, or in the same way, as others, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2232246">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was first handed a copy of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Stranger" title="The Stranger">The Stranger</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Albert Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a>, I was apprehensive about it. Most of what I had heard was that it was &quot;absurdist fiction&quot; and all these terms which at the time, I felt pretentious (now knowing better). In January, I wanted to read something short after havin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14110822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book, finally, understanding that it was an example of existentialist philosophy but knowing little else.  I began reading and immediately felt lost in the randomness of it all, in the detailed descriptions of settings and the truncated passages dealing with human exchanges.  It was l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6240490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[این کتاب داستان یک مرد درونگرا به نام مرسو را تعریف می‌کند که مرتکب قتلی می‌شود و در سلول زندان در انتظار اعدام خویش است. داستان در دههٔ ۳۰ در الجزایر رخ می‌دهد.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3483459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Je ne l’avais jamais lu, mais j’en avais entendu parler. Je l’ai donc découvert avec une forte attente, et je n’ai pas été déçu. Je me contenterai ici de rapporter le commentaire de Camus lui-même qui fit la préface d’une édition universitaire américaine de ce roman. J’ai adoré...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3455827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Albert Camus, the French Algerian author of this book, as well as two of my favorite collections of humanist essays, &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11995.Resistance_Rebellion_and_Death_Essays" title="Resistance, Rebellion, and Death  Essays by Albert Camus">Resistance  Rebellion  and Death</a>,&quot; and &quot;The Myth of Sisyphus,&quot; was one of the great novelists of the 20th century.  This book, relatively short and quick reading ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1610344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[کامو<br/>نویسنده ای است با مکتب ادبی اگزیستانسیالیسم که خود یکی از سردمداران این مکتب است.<br/>کتاب بیگانه<br/>داستان روایت زندگی سرد و ساکت شخصی بنام مورسو است که می توا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30760826">more...</a>]]></body>
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