Books this year: a book diary

I didn’t know anything about this book before I started reading it, and I’m glad for that, so this will be a short post. After reading the book, I discovered through Wikipedia that there are apparently a lot of philosophical underpinnings to what’s going on, in particular that this is supposed to be an Absurdist novel.

The main character of the book is a really weird guy, but I can empathize with him. That probably makes me a weird guy too, but it might be that I have Absurdist feelings. He doesn’t really care about things and choices that people are supposed to care about, but it works.

I wouldn’t say I would buy the book for my friends or pull anyone’s arm to read this, but it satisfies my effort/reward limits. It’s a teeny book you could knock out in a few hours, so even with a tiny reward it’s probably still worth the read. On the other hand, if you can find a similarly teeny book which you think will have a lot of reward, you’re economically and morally compelled to read that one first.

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