The Stranger

[Vampyr]

I was assigned to read a book today in my Special Topics Literature class, and the book was called The Stranger, by Albert Camus.

The author has a certain sense of style in his writing that I have never witnessed before, and I was instantly drawn to it. Every sentance is very blunt, and in your face. The entire story is told from the perspective of one character, and it is written unlike any other first-person novel I have ever read. The only comparison I can make is that he writes like GM writes his journal entries. He shows us an entirely different side of how the human mind functions and thinks. The majority of the novel is used telling how the character is reacting to the things happening to him, and how he feels and thinks about him.

And if you read this book, I can almost garuntee that despite whatever the main character does, you will still feel for him. He will earn a place in your heart, no matter what. He is odd, though, because he appears to be utterly emotionless. At some parts he is more animal than human.

And the story is scary, too, because you will never know what is about to happen. But that's not why it will scare you. That's not why this book will surface in your mind when you lay down to sleep at night. The reason it will keep resurfacing, and the reason he will haunt your mind everytime you react to something is because when you read it, you will realize just how much you are like the stranger, and that down at the very core of every person, he lives there.