My thoughts about this book mirror my thoughts about The Myth of Sisyphus, but The Rebel actually gets a proper post on this blog because it's the book that got me a work iPad.
Until a couple of years ago, I always had a book with me as I was waiting for students to see me in our open-plan workspace. I'd much rather spend 5 minutes reading a couple of pages than staring at a wall. Then one day my boss informed me that it wasn't acceptable, that if the School's director was to walk in and see me with a book she would have thought I was underworked (not strictly speaking untrue...) and that he would get me an iPad so I could do my e-mails in those lulls between meetings. Needless to say, that is the iPad on which I'm now reading a lot of ebooks...
As for The Rebel and The Myth of Sisyphus, I read them at a time in which I didn't have many other options handy. I read them because I felt that I had to, and because I had loved The Plague and The Outsider. Yet, these two less accessible books proved to be a slog for me. In short: instead of reading philosophical essays, I'm much better off reading their synopses on Wikipedia!
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