Amos- I'm not denying the contribution he made to the "realm" of both literature and philosophy, but consider my circumstances. I was a Theatre major who was reading both too much Ibsen AND too much Camus at once. PLUS, I attended college when The Cure was a hot item on the music scene and I heard "Killing An Arab" MORE than one time too many at cast gatherings and in social settings alike. It was a lethal combination for my Camus tolerance.
BTW, in the existential tradition I would say the focus became MORE self-righteous by claiming there were no universal moral bounds for humanity. (I was not one of the more quiet students...) :-)