The Fall kind of struck me the same way; stylistically it was interesting but left me with a pretty lukewarm feeling. The Plague grabbed me a lot more, though, i guess because there's a fairly realistic situation involved, and it would definitely be an interesting scenario to show how people confront nearly inevitable death. It's becoming clear to me that even his "novels" are more just convenient places to espouse certain ideas about the difficulty of life, which is what i am really interested in and why i keep reading.