Quarter 4- Journal 5: The Stranger

Wow. What another waste of my time. I'm really starting to hate these World Literature books. How do people enjoy these things? Once again, quite literally nothing in this book happened except for at the end of both parts. At the end of one, he kills someone, and at the end of another, he has an emotional flip out. Otherwise, it's just him observing society and not feeling emotion. He literally has cut himself off from feeling anything, and it's just annoying. No one is that dense. His character is not even realistic- he's just cynical, indifferent and boring. These ingredients do not make for a good book. Books need action, and dynamic characters, and protagonists who actually involve themselves in what is going on, or actually feel an emotion. I just hated this book in general. So far: From Sleep Unbound>>>> The Stranger>>>>>>>>>>>>So Long a Letter. But still, I want to read a book with a protagonist who doesn't annoy the crap out of me. At least with From Sleep Unbound and So Long a Letter, there are things to write about. In this book, it's basically "Society is absurd." There's no substance there. BORING.