dukegregory 's review for:

The Plague by Albert Camus

3.0

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Great beginning for a book that's quality wanes as it goes on with minor peaks. Kind of depressed me nondiegetically in that Camus' characters come together in the face of the plague to fight against it, an optimistic cultural study, and yet the reality in our technological epoch is anything but. Sad. Either way, this has a reportage style that I didn't particularly like. Essay-Camus came to play rather than Novel-Camus stylistically, and that choice irked me enough to make me feel like its 352-page length is excessive. Still enjoyed some of it. Much of it no.