alt Hacker NewsI tried reading Myth of Sisyphus by Camus recently. I found it tedious and boring. Sort of a rehash of stoic and Taoist teaching. Yes embrace the absurd but sooo long winded. Has anyone else read this, am I missing something?
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brokegrammer • today at 12:41 AM
The Stranger is good, but I have trouble stick with his other works past the first few chapters because of the tedious and boring aspects you mentioned.
I was never a fan of French literature to begin with, so that might have something to do with it.
It is very methodical. Starting out on why you shouldn't kill yourself, as a real debate. And yes all the arguments have been made before. He tries to build up from first principals. I think he tried to walk a fine line between the physical suicide and the philosophical suicide.