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Dracula
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Brigands & Breadknives
86%
The Stranger
79%
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
21%
A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry
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The Once and Future Witches
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    Thoughts from 73% (Part Two - Chapter 3)
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    On guilt - thoughts from page 90
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    Thoughts from 73% - Prosecution and hypocrisy
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    Thoughts from 27% (page 33, end of Ch3) - 🍷🚬

    Can we talk about how much drinking and smoking is happening during all of this? Just inebriated the whole way through. Drank too much at lunch then split two bottles for dinner anyway. And countless cigarettes the whole while. Curious how much of this is just appropriate to the cultural context the book was first written in, and how much of it is intentionally added for the character?

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    Thoughts from 69% (page 67): The Little Robot Woman (who is she?)
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    Thoughts from 51% (page 62, end of Ch6/Part 1) - Not taking his own advice
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    Thoughts from 50%

    "And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."

    Did not expect the novel's events, but it is promising and the writing style adds to the themes in a unique way.

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    Thoughts from 26% end of Ch4
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    Thoughts from 27% (page 33, end of Ch3) - 🍷🚬

    Can we talk about how much drinking and smoking is happening during all of this? Just inebriated the whole way through. Drank too much at lunch then split two bottles for dinner anyway. And countless cigarettes the whole while. Curious how much of this is just appropriate to the cultural context the book was first written in, and how much of it is intentionally added for the character?

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    Thoughts from 57% | Verdict: Not Christian

    Okay MC is kind of annoying but if I had someone waving a crucifix and yelling in my face about God forgiving me when I’ve already said I don’t believe in God, I too would act like that.

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    Jumbled thoughts from 55% (page 53 of 96)
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    Thoughts from 51% (page 63) End of part 1

    There’s something really interesting about how the novel explores the gap between how people feel and how they’re expected to look like they feel. Meursault moves through life in a way that resists emotional performance, which makes even ordinary moments feel slightly off-kilter. Like we’re all socially expected to act or react certain ways and Meursault basically says, “mmm, how about no.”

    I also found it intriguing that everything seems grounded in physical experience, heat, fatigue, comfort, discomfort, while emotional or moral expectations feel secondary. Almost as if they belong to a different system he isn’t fully plugged into.

    I’m left with a lot of questions. Is it better to feel the “right” things, or to refuse to pretend? At what point does emotional detachment stop being honesty and become something more troubling? And should we all participate in the emotional language everyone else understands?

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    Thoughts from 50% (page 56)
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