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  <title><![CDATA[The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1983</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Albert Camus]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 03 10:47:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 03 10:47:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so the basic premise in this book is that there are two schools of thought involved with becoming conscious as a man.  There is one in which you become conscious of God, accepting faith as the channel between this world and the next.  Existence is a matter of order, one that is concrete and fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16905343">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 24 13:22:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 01 20:29:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of my friends will probably think I'm being sarcastic when I call this as good a &quot;self-help&quot; book as any I can imagine, but this essay honestly inspired in me an awe of human nature and its absurd indomitability. I think Camus gets a bad rap for being a cold, detached pessimist who on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22881202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23140030">
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1969</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 28 12:04:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 28 12:52:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the end of high school I was a very unhappy person and had been so since our family moved from unincorporated Kane County to Park Ridge, Illinois when I was ten.  At the outset the unhappiness was basically consequent upon leaving a rural setting, small school and friendly, integrated working-cla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23140030">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6030008">
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  <date_updated>Fri May 16 00:05:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Kiri&quot; adalah kebutuhan tak tercegah. Itu kritik filsuf Jean Paul Sartre atas sastrawan Albert Camus. Pada tahun 1952 hampir semua media di Perancis menyoroti perdebatan antara Camus dan Sartre soal komunisme setelah Camus menerbitkan buku <em>L'homme Revolte</em> setahun sebelumnya. Buku ini bisa ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6030008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38503326">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mel]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 23 21:03:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 11 23:39:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ada yang saya sukai dari buku ini tersebar di beberapa topik don yuanisme, penaklukan, kirilov, dan sandiwara. namun yang akan saya kutip satu saja.<br/><br/><em>&quot;selalu tiba saatnya kita harus memilih antara renungan dan tindakan. begitulah hakikatnya menjadi manusia. kepedihan2 itu mengerikan. ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38503326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10570887">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[philosophers, dorm room and otherwise]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 12:04:54 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 07 06:41:36 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There was a part of me that really, really, really wanted to give this book 4 stars because of the way it made me think about life and consider and reconsider my own notions about the meaning we make in our worlds. It contained some really interested ideas regarding the philosophy of absurdism, whic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10570887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1725684">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 06 15:24:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this philosophical essay, Camus presents and defends his philosophical school of thought entitled the philosophy of the absurd.<br/><br/>The philosophy of the absurd asks about man's futile search for meaning in a world which it devoid of eternity. He presupposes the question: Does the realizat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1725684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14241567">
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 31 22:05:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 31 22:43:20 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[just goes to show, hope itself is useless and irresponsible. one creates beauty. it cannot be &quot;arrived at.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="51300950">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 02 14:33:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The stars don't shine upon us, We're in the way of their light,&quot; sings David Berman.<br/><br/>I have never understood so little of a book. Camus takes a long time to draw his set-up into a clear, understandable thread but by the last third I was beginning to absorb most of his gist. I a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51300950">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This essay is one I have visited more times than I'd like to admit. The Myth of Sisyphus sets the structural foundation for the absurdist perceptions and views of literary works that place emphasis on these similar themes. The Myth of Sisyphus depicts the absurd by challenging the moral standards by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50833146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62522622">
    <user id="2490942">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Novato, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 07 14:31:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 07 14:38:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This thesis on existentialism is written in a form that I found hard to assimilate.  Camus wades through his philosophy with colloquial writing style and anecdotal reasoning, rather that a structured analysis with proofs and objectivity.  In spite of these shortcomings, his use and interpretation of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62522622">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66447283">
    <user id="2511643">
    <name><![CDATA[Creamymole]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 06 12:35:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 08 23:27:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a person who has suffered with the transitory feelings of depersonalization and existential malaise that Camus focused on in this book, I was very excited and hopeful that I would gain some insight and possibly find a path to meaning (stupid monkey, still seeking) elucidated in his essay. Instead...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66447283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46449348">
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  <date_updated>Thu Feb 19 06:00:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In one way, at least, &quot;The Myth of Sisyphys&quot; is not an honest inquiry into the question of meaning.  Camus dismisses, a priori, any possible supernatural source of meaning, which leaves him with only absurdity.  But then he despairs because of the meaningless and absurdity of life.  Well, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46449348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65268493">
    <user id="1792117">
    <name><![CDATA[Rhys]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm only giving this book three stars, because I found much of the main essay to be incoherent. Yet what I did understand resonated so much that if I'd read it in my early 20s or late teens, I would now call it one of the most influential books I've ever read. Since I read it just now, I can't say t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65268493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63487128">
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  <date_updated>Sat Aug 01 17:12:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[	This is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.  In it Albert Camus, one of the two (with Jean-Paul Sartre) leading “French existentialists,” faces the problem of suicide: an act that seems to make philosophical sense in a world in which one is born accidentally and suffers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63487128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5270954">
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    <name><![CDATA[Elsa]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 28 22:21:54 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Me lo acaban de recomendar, lo acabo de comprar. A ver qué tal está, ay que soy muy estúpida, bujú.<br/><br/>Pinches imbéciles incompetentes.<br/><br/>(lo escribí enojada esto, pero me rehúso a quitarlo, se oye bien, no? Violento... muchachos, no lean a mandeville, saca lo pioooor de uste...]]></body>
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    <review id="69070577">
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    <name><![CDATA[White]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1974</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a required college read.  Specifically, the Myth of Sisyphus is a commentary on life and I have to admit that I have thought about it constantly throughout my adult life as I add experience with aging and frustration.  Much of this connection I get with the Myth is due to an almost unrealis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69070577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a required college read.  Specifically, the Myth of Sisyphus is a commentary on life and I have to admit that I have thought about it constantly throughout my adult life as I add experience with aging and frustration.  Much of this connection I get with the Myth is due to an almost unrealis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60762864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic for a reason. This book is a tonic for any agnostic or cynic struggling with the whole meaning-of-life thing. Camus, in a way that I find totally satisfying, solves that problem without the standard religious cop-out of locating meaning outside this world. <br/>What is wrong with being Sisy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52130182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Life-changing, at least if you're reading it the summer before sophomore year of college and in the midst of seriously thinking about death for the first time in your life. And me.]]></body>
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