Grandma Cindy, I am near the end of The Stranger and I have read a couple of books marked excellent that were worse than this book. The main problem actually was separated words, but it is very readable with no missing pages and no garbled passages, just a few messed up words. I don't know how I've missed making the acquaintance of Albert Camus this long; he is surely an entertaining and thought-provoking writer. Jill