mattgoldberg 's review for:

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

4.0

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I haven't read any philosophy since college, so this was definitely a heavy mental lift. I could really only manage about 25 pages a day because you really have to work through what Camus is saying and arguing. Once you finally get there, you do get a cohesive and bleak argument that is oddly compelling, although I will say its fundamental flaw is resting examples upon the fictional. If you're making proclamations about life, the universe, and everything, but you have to resort to archetypes to make your case, then it feels like building on sand, and honestly he doesn't really need to do that when the "Myth of Sisyphus" sums up his case pretty well before he breaks it down upon philosophical lines.