The Plague in Pick-a-Shelf

Jan 09, 2015 Sam rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, proper-books, philosophy, classics

And so my forays into the world of philosophy continue and while I probably missed so much in this book that others with a better grounding in such things would've seen (easily I would imagine) I really enjoyed this. Well maybe enjoyed is not quite the right term given the subject matter (although as a non-humanist(!?) I did enjoy it on some level), I was more intrigued/fascinated by the story, its narrator and its characters. The narrator opens setting the scene with a few caveats on source mat ...more

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Mar 21, 2012 Noor ul rated it liked it

Here you find many "abstractions" then again when you face a situation that is extraordinary you only have abstractions to fall back to, to hold on to, to reach out to.
It wasn't the happiest of reads, the plague is a morbid topic after all.
However, Camus's style and execution of multiple thoughts is to be lauded.

The questioning if God's unwillingness to help his own people, some innocent and some ignorant, makes him less merciful or less almighty by a couple of characters shed light on how hum ...more

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Mar 27, 2014 Marie (UK) rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2015-reading-challenge

well this was hard work. Whilst the language used was not difficult i seemed to find the whole structure of the book bland and tiresome. It has taken me days to read as it could send me to sleep in minutes. I cannot say it was drivel, there were aspects that struck a chord but the whole was less than thrilling. There are some thoughts about power / government and the people that are as true today as they were.

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