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  <title><![CDATA[The Fall]]></title>
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  <default_description>Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1956</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 06 09:07:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I ran into my friend Dan at the club last week, and he was drunk. So we talked Camus. We didn’t discuss Camus’s theories, or the fact that he avoided riding in cars and then DIED IN A CAR CRASH. We just talked about Camus in relation to Dan’s life and in relation to mine. The only really inter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14724198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8164693">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those who always sit at the bar, lawyers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 23 22:19:43 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 01 13:01:07 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh. This book started off with potential, I thought, even making me laugh out loud, though I'm not sure it's supposed to be funny. But then again what's not funny about proclaiming that humans will be remembered only for reading the paper and fornicating?<br/><br/>It took me a while to get into th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8164693">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Those looking for an example of The Absurd Man in action.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 02 21:13:30 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 19 06:04:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Fall is an appropriately titled book in which we meet the personification of what Camus called &quot;The Absurd Man&quot;.  He did not use this term to refer to someone who was merely ridiculous.  The Absurd Man is one who has come to realize the absurdity of life, the resulting despair, yet cho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45219455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33357021">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 20 10:40:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 25 11:56:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a class, which I admit may have colored my view of it, but honestly, I did not like it.  I questioned my view because I know it is a classic, and I know Camus is supposed to be a genius.  I freely admit I haven't read any of his other books, and it is entirely possible that they are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33357021">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who's confused as to what this life is all about.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Mar 14 14:57:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As with most Camus, this book is, in the course of a hundred or so pages, an entire decade of therapy. If you don't feel worse—yet oddly optimistic—about yourself and people in general after this book, you're either inhuman, or you're the exact person this book was meant for. <br/><br/>Someone o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17765128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15128918">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 11 06:49:42 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite of the Camus I have read. The style is one of the most interesting I have ever come across. It is written in a strange monologue. You follow the lead character through his entire life leading to that point as the lead explains it to some guy he met in the pub (someone who never s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15128918">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4442910">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 12 15:41:35 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the 1956 Vintage Books paperback copy of The Fall as translated from the French by Justin O'Brien (I am not aware of another translation, please let me know if there is one!), and found it a complex look at human morality.  The clumsy preening of the narrator is, at first, a little hard to ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4442910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49839407">
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    <body><![CDATA[Once in a men's room stall, I saw written: &quot;Why can't people just be good? It's not that hard.&quot;  I think the guy who wrote that should read this.]]></body>
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    <review id="49301025">
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 20:25:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[More of a dialectic of Camus' existentialist philosophies and views than &quot;novel&quot;, it can be an interesting read.  If you're looking for a book of plot twists and character development and so on, this ain't your book.  If you want a 100 book about the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49301025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59589974">
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    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 13 23:20:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 13 23:41:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sartre is supposed to have said,&quot;perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood&quot; of Camus' books. It's just like Sartre to claim to find something profound in what seems to me just one of those things that didn't quite come off.<br/><br/>For once, I can agree with Sartre, at least h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59589974">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76617844">
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 03 14:17:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 08 03:26:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Etre le roi de ses humeurs, c'est le privilège des grands animaux.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;J'avoue ma faiblesse ... pour le beau langage, en général. Faiblesse que je me reproche, croyez-le. Je sais bien que le gout du linge propre ne signifie pas forcément qu'on ait les pieds sales. N'emp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76617844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19014278">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gåry!]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 30 13:56:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 25 21:53:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant admission of what we consider questionable moral decisions based in (whether we would ever admit it or not) what  I believe would be a common truth.<br/><br/>It's a fast (but not easy) read... double-spaced, the Vintage International edition clocks in at 147 pages.  Highly recommended ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19014278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66828126">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I have been reading some of the existentialist writers lately...reading Sartre's trilogy and now The Fall by Albert Camus, and I am still trying to figure out this &quot;philosophy.&quot;<br/><br/>I remember once hearing in a lit class that it means that the only reality is the one that you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66828126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49507230">
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    <name><![CDATA[Steve]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Camus is one of my favorite writers. That said, this is not his best work. Sartre said that it was his least understood and most beautiful book, but I cannot agree. <br/><br/>I was a little disappointed because I found the idea of the book more interesting than the book itself. As much as I hate s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49507230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73899385">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 08 15:01:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like a litmus test for psychosis and self-absortion: see how far you can read before your disgust overcomes your intrigue.  And then, like any of Camus's works, you are intrigued again.  Probably one of the best dramatic monologues constructed in the 20th century.  A true vision of humanity's delusi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73899385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Keista knyga.. Prasideda visai nekaltai, bet nuveda i tokia minciu bala, is kurios norisi begti, bet negali, nes traukia kazkur i apacia..<br/>Yra fraze: kada tu pradedi ziureti i tustuma - tustuma pradeda ziureti i tave. Puikiai tinka sitai knygai.<br/>Uzteks vienam vakarui skaitymo, nes sunkiai ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17359818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Forget <u>The Stranger</u> - this is Camus' best novel.  It obviously helps if you like existentialism but what really makes this book amazing is the creative monologue-as-narrative writing style, and the observations on ulterior motives and human nature.  <br/><br/><u>The Fall</u> delivers ideological wit with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70932570">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this after seeing it listed as one of Ian Pears favorites on Borders.com.  It's a novel that really entertains while functioning as a philosophical pondering on the absurdities of life. I read it on the beach though it's far from &quot;beach reading&quot; and I needed to ramp up the concentra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64322068">more...</a>]]></body>
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