Godot + Camus + the Cure = h0tt. Maybe teh purzident heard Killing an Arab on the Clear Channel last month liked it, and found out through the intarwebz that it's based on a Camus novel, and decided to read it.
Worry not: in AP English, we had to do book reports and 2 of my classmates chose l'étranger, precisely for the same reason that mr.purzident read it: it's a quick read (less than 100 pages, if I remember correctly).
It didn't make any fucking sense to them, they admitted, but they can tell the basic storyline: Man isn't sad when his mum died, man has sex with a girl named Marie, man kills arab, man waits in prison, man gets acquitted and walks out a free man. Except that man didn't walk out a free man.
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Worry not: in AP English, we had to do book reports and 2 of my classmates chose l'étranger, precisely for the same reason that mr.purzident read it: it's a quick read (less than 100 pages, if I remember correctly).
It didn't make any fucking sense to them, they admitted, but they can tell the basic storyline: Man isn't sad when his mum died, man has sex with a girl named Marie, man kills arab, man waits in prison, man gets acquitted and walks out a free man. Except that man didn't walk out a free man.