My sister gave me a copy of Camus's The Stranger when I was in high school. This doesn't embarass me, but the last time I mentioned it it sure seemed to embarass her!
I read a few Camus books. The only one that really grabbed me was The Plague, which I liked a lot. (Haven't read it in a while ...) I even tried to read a book of his essays, but I don't think I ever made it through them. (Which is pretty rare -- I only very slowly came to realize that just because you started a read a book doesn't mean you have to finish reading it. For a long time this never really occurred to me, even if I was reading a book I really disliked. I still have some tendencies in this direction.)
Most of my embarassing recollections come out of that, actually -- just the sheer amount of time spent reading books basically just to pass the time. None of the seven trillion Piers Anthony books I read in junior and senior high school changed my life forever, but, geez, there's a lot of hours there I'll never have back.
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I read a few Camus books. The only one that really grabbed me was The Plague, which I liked a lot. (Haven't read it in a while ...) I even tried to read a book of his essays, but I don't think I ever made it through them. (Which is pretty rare -- I only very slowly came to realize that just because you started a read a book doesn't mean you have to finish reading it. For a long time this never really occurred to me, even if I was reading a book I really disliked. I still have some tendencies in this direction.)
Most of my embarassing recollections come out of that, actually -- just the sheer amount of time spent reading books basically just to pass the time. None of the seven trillion Piers Anthony books I read in junior and senior high school changed my life forever, but, geez, there's a lot of hours there I'll never have back.