Your English is good.

camus- i love his words
the essays in resistance rebellion and death I have to keep reading over and again
his writing for Combat was so strong. one of his last pieces for the paper Neither Victims nor Executioners- this bit I should like to engrave slowly and deeply on the exposed brain of our president. Should that brain ever be found opened...or simply found....

Just read The Stranger. Loved it. Has anybody here ready the newer translation by Matthew Ward? supposed to be better?

Just picked up The Plague. will read it over x-mas break.

beautiful imaginery thrown in "the stranger". i suppose robert smith got inspired by that book and wrote "killing an arab". not crap at all.

TheMilford wrote:Just read The Stranger. Loved it. Has anybody here ready the newer translation by Matthew Ward? supposed to be better?

Nevermind the translation.The original sucks .Unless the translator is a genius , the translated book will suck as well.
I cannot understand what's good about that book : it's just about a guy who's bored , and don't give a shit about anything or anyone

For Camus fans , I recommend Michel Houellebecq .
It's almost the same thing except that , instead of killing , he screws .

erskine wrote:
For Camus fans , I recommend Michel Houellebecq .
It's almost the same thing except that , instead of killing , he screws .

Michel Houellebecq is an amazing author!
"Platform" is a breathtaking book.

242sumner wrote:

erskine wrote:
For Camus fans , I recommend Michel Houellebecq .
It's almost the same thing except that , instead of killing , he screws .

Michel Houellebecq is an amazing author!
"Platform" is a breathtaking book.

I totally disagree with that !
And "Platforme" is the only book I read from him.
Boredom exhale in every sentences .
And the "sex scenes" are so morose/depressing/factual.

erskine wrote:Boredom exhale in every sentences .
And the "sex scenes" are so morose/depressing/factual.

Yes, that's precisely the idea.

GoldenGoneDays wrote:beautiful imaginery thrown in "the stranger". i suppose robert smith got inspired by that book and wrote "killing an arab". not crap at all.

book? not crap.

song? total crap. the b-side was better.

camus=not crap.

I have to admit... I stole the copy I own from my high school library because of the Cure connection... it just took me 15 years to get around to reading it.