The Stranger

Was superbly written. I would give the writing 5 stars, but the main character was just so painfully bland . I know this is intentional, I know that one could teach an entire course dissecting his thoughts and actions, but I really couldn't bring myself to care.

I wouldn't even call the narrator unlikeable, really. I felt nothing for him, nor about him. The world he lived in though was intensely interesting, and I found every other character in the book to be more worthy of a story about them than the narrator.

TL;DR I cared more about whether or not the old man ends up finding his dog than whether or not the main character has his head knocked off in the middle of the town square and quite frankly to construct a story where that's the case takes talent in and of itself...