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kbelcher1992 's review for:
The Myth of Sisyphus
by Albert Camus
challenging
Man this book really comes out swinging, when one of the earliest lines is, "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." I laughed out loud on reading that with the sheer bluntness that Camus comes at you. That being said I appreciated the bluntness. The book as a whole was, interesting. I think Camus' version of existentialism can be a bit bleak, and reading it at times was a bit depressing. That being said it was certainly worth considering and the concepts of the book are some that I will continue to think on. The book doesn't seem like a true philosophy book in that Camus is not telling you a framework for life but spends much of the essay tearing down why other viewpoints are cowardice. I am not all that well versed in all of the authors mentioned so at times it could be a bit confusing in that regard. Then at times the essay felt as if it could have been a great deal shorter and still conveyed the same basic point. Overall though I still enjoyed and given its relative brevity it's probably worth reading if you have some interest in philosophy at large and especially in existential philosophy.