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Albert Camus

3.92 AVERAGE

afonso_bernardes's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

ayla81's review against another edition

3.5

dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

frank_desanna's review against another edition

5.0

dark hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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beautiful 

sorrymynameistakenalready's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

endswithvosh's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

logvz's review against another edition

1.5

challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

shanmarie7's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

livrenfeu's review against another edition

2.25

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one big boring exposition for something not even that interesting 

apriltodeath's review against another edition

3.0

reflective medium-paced

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

doji_k's review against another edition

4.0

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Prophetic and thought provoking. Camus continues to surprise me with how much he seemed to understand humanity. Camus expressed that writing this was not just about a fictional plague, but instead about how we process and deal with great tragedies and hardships. This is why for much of the novel he refers to the plague as a scourge instead.
I wanted to read this not only because I am a huge fan of Camus, but also because I felt the concept of approaching a fictional plague from a philosophical view was unique compared to other approaches, most notably the movie Contagion.
I would say my only flaws would be the length and some of the storytelling. The middle drags due to repetition and many passages will devolve into philosophical musings, which is fine. But this also sacrificed the story and characters. In fact, it's almost as if all of the characterization is left for the last quarter of the book. It just makes me feel like this would have been perfect if it were instead a much shorter collection of essays instead, and it definitely feels like it at times.
Nevertheless I can still say I enjoyed this greatly and have many bookmarked pages and highlighted sections.