Tag: existentialism
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The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
Rating: 4/5, good The back cover of The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster reads (at least the 2007 Penguin edition of the book first released in 1982): “’One day there is life… and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.’ So begins The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster’s moving and personal meditation on fatherhood.…
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Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Rating: 4/5, good I first read this book when I was seventeen, as part of summer reading before senior year of high school. It’s a short book, but very dense and philosophical. It was a bit hard to read and I remember not quite getting it, but the idea that religion is human-constructed and shouldn’t…
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Stranger by Albert Camus Rating: 4/5, good I read this in high school and all I remembered was that he didn’t cry at his mom’s funeral and he shot a guy because it was too sunny. I picked this up to reread on a trip because it’s small (a little over 100 pages) and…