I remember discovering the existentialists when I was 16 and I wouldn't shut up about it. A typical phase for precocious high schoolers and most undergrads. She could only pass as 'intellectual' because so many in today's porn have such narrow horizons.

Then one day you realize that Dosteysvky was a looney Russian Orthodox bigot and Satre a Stalinist stooge. Only good old Soccer loving Camus and krauts like Karl Jaspers stand up over time.