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I usually avoid the most famous book by a particular author when I begin, and so I'd liked what I'd read of Camus before, but I avoided The Stranger. In many cases, I've found that the most popular book isn't always the best, and tends to lead to a bad relationship with the author. Having read The Stranger now, I think it would have been alright to begin with it, maybe even beneficial. In reading The First Man and The Plague, I'd acclimated to Camus' style, but I don't think I would have needed to. The Stranger expertly brings the reader in, and makes its point without being either too heavy-handed or too subtle. I very much enjoyed reading it, and it had the wonderful quality of being a book that I wanted to savor, to read slowly. Unlike Virginia Woolf, say, it didn't force me to read slowly, but wasn't so plot-driven that I felt the urge to skip the descriptions and get on to the action. I'm glad I've read it, and it only encourages me to read even more by Camus.