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To this date, this is still my favorite book of all time. A must read for existentialists. This book taught me that one does not have to be deeply religous to know the difference between good and evil. Also, one does not need any real reason to help others, rather to do the right thing is a matter of "common human decency".
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By far my favorite of Camus's novels. Far more developed and engauging than "The Stranger, A Happy Death, or The Fall." You really get the desperation and emotion of the people in this one. Very good descriptions of surroundings found in his work. This is a must read for any fan of Camus's other works. It also is the strongest tie to his "absurdism philosophy" discussed in Myth of Sisyphus, a good compaion to read at the same time or even before this novel.
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The story of a doctor stuck in a quarantined town cursed with a plague - one day the rats start appearing, and then people started dying. This is a story about those terrible disasters in a world of meaninglessness - but this is also a story of friendship and how two men find away to persist and live on in a hopeless situation.
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