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eedle_cacleberry's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, and Misogyny
Minor: Sexual content and Racism
lucius_gooseman's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
It’s good, it’s nihilism in pill form, with lots of detachment so you feel, as Meursault does, an outsider.
It’s one big, honking question mark. I’m going to think about this for days.
It’s one big, honking question mark. I’m going to think about this for days.
Content Warnings
Minor: Murder and Animal cruelty
elys_exe's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
An interesting relation to philosophical absurdism, The Outsider dives into the ideas of existence and its lack of meaning, the freedom it therefore must provide.
The narrative explores grief and loss from a brutal perspective, not shying away from the main characters detached behaviour and the way he gets villainised, ostracised and misunderstood because of it. The character of Meursault is both simple, yet incredibly complex.
The writing itself is easily approachable, easy to read and flows nicely, but encourages the reader to explore deeper within the elements given, making up a story to not only read, but reread and digest anew with every line.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
marcepax's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, and Misogyny
Moderate: Gun violence
hopearianna's review against another edition
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
He got his point across well, but I didn’t like this book. I don’t like the idea that nothing matters in life, and many of the people the MC was friends with throughout the book and him himself did pretty terrible things without remorse, which honestly made me not care what they had to say or what happened to them.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Violence, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse
mediocrityrulez's review against another edition
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny
thyrine's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Albert Camus tackles the idea of Nihilism, emphasising the absurdity of life within the pages, and give us a moral dilemma that will eat your brain in the end: "In front of the inevitable, does anything truly holds any meaning?".
We watch the protagonist, Meursault, navigate this exact question through the book until the very end. I cannot explain more than this since it'll go on spoiler territory, but I 100% recommend you to give it a chance.
And if you don't get the book the first time, take a break, and come back for a reread another time. You can read it in one sitting alone (I myself read it in three hours when I got it). This is one of those books people might not understand on a first sitting and that's totally fine!
We watch the protagonist, Meursault, navigate this exact question through the book until the very end. I cannot explain more than this since it'll go on spoiler territory, but I 100% recommend you to give it a chance.
And if you don't get the book the first time, take a break, and come back for a reread another time. You can read it in one sitting alone (I myself read it in three hours when I got it). This is one of those books people might not understand on a first sitting and that's totally fine!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Domestic abuse, and Death
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Gun violence
Minor: Racism and Toxic relationship
ksmith_23's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Violence, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, and Death of parent
mikathereviewer's review against another edition
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
It was alright. Wouldn't say it was very good. But wouldn't say I hated it. I was at first disliking it due to the sudden events at the beginning of the book and out of nowhere slow pace again.
Sometimes we just got bunch on pages just Meursault observing other people and it bored me a lot. I get the message behind this, but I don't like such storytellings and prefer that something actually happens like the murder in this book which kinds saved the book from getting only 2 stars.
The murder was interesting and the character development throughout the book. At first I thought Meursault was a psychopath as he said; I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything., which is a typical psychopath behaviour. Especially the fading in with society and getting caught when it's already too late, which was the case here too. But due to the book mentioning often emotions I came to the conclusion that our protagonist was emotionally detached. He wasn't sure what he liked or not, same with his girlfriend. He was fine with either way. Sometimes as he really seem like not caring, sometimes him not being sure. I liked that part of the book. In general I prefer character based classical books than action based ones.
I hated the fact how another girl was chasing behind a man which wasn't worth it. The girl the protagonist got was the typical; I can fix him girl. I hate those. And I hated how she KNEW, she even asked if he would say the same to another woman and when he said yes she STILL stayed with him. Stupid, stupid!
(The whole relationship was a huge red flag)
There was also misinformation when the lawyer says that all lawyers say 'I' instead of 'him/her' to refer to the person they defend. Reason for that is, there is a written protocol and sometimes even an audio protocol and if a lawyer says 'I', he will get in immense trouble. So that wasn't true and I don't tolerate false information in any kinds of books (unless it's comedy or fantasy if also mentioned that it's made-up and not meant literal).
Some characters were weird or mad annoying. Epecially that priest. And for weird is this scene my example; ‘I’ll leave you alone.’ He stayed where he was, behind me.
Like, what now? Staying or leaving?
And the writing style was weird sometimes too. Saying the sky is green. Yes, green not blue. I don't know what Albert Camus was trying to tell us
Nevertheless, I think the weird and annoying characters were done on purpose as the protagonist got annoyed from them too, but I would really like to know what by green sky was meant. The main things that really bothered me was the red flag relationship and the misinformation. Except that was the book quite alright. Would say average. But would still recommend it, when someone would be searching for exactly such type of book.
Sometimes we just got bunch on pages just Meursault observing other people and it bored me a lot. I get the message behind this, but I don't like such storytellings and prefer that something actually happens like the murder in this book which kinds saved the book from getting only 2 stars.
The murder was interesting and the character development throughout the book. At first I thought Meursault was a psychopath as he said; I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything., which is a typical psychopath behaviour. Especially the fading in with society and getting caught when it's already too late, which was the case here too. But due to the book mentioning often emotions I came to the conclusion that our protagonist was emotionally detached. He wasn't sure what he liked or not, same with his girlfriend. He was fine with either way. Sometimes as he really seem like not caring, sometimes him not being sure. I liked that part of the book. In general I prefer character based classical books than action based ones.
I hated the fact how another girl was chasing behind a man which wasn't worth it. The girl the protagonist got was the typical; I can fix him girl. I hate those. And I hated how she KNEW, she even asked if he would say the same to another woman and when he said yes she STILL stayed with him. Stupid, stupid!
(The whole relationship was a huge red flag)
There was also misinformation when the lawyer says that all lawyers say 'I' instead of 'him/her' to refer to the person they defend. Reason for that is, there is a written protocol and sometimes even an audio protocol and if a lawyer says 'I', he will get in immense trouble. So that wasn't true and I don't tolerate false information in any kinds of books (unless it's comedy or fantasy if also mentioned that it's made-up and not meant literal).
Some characters were weird or mad annoying. Epecially that priest. And for weird is this scene my example; ‘I’ll leave you alone.’ He stayed where he was, behind me.
Like, what now? Staying or leaving?
And the writing style was weird sometimes too. Saying the sky is green. Yes, green not blue. I don't know what Albert Camus was trying to tell us
Nevertheless, I think the weird and annoying characters were done on purpose as the protagonist got annoyed from them too, but I would really like to know what by green sky was meant. The main things that really bothered me was the red flag relationship and the misinformation. Except that was the book quite alright. Would say average. But would still recommend it, when someone would be searching for exactly such type of book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty
Minor: Sexual content
countdraculahimself's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Animal cruelty, Death, and Gun violence