Status Updates From Diario del año de la peste

for a class. boy does defoe love to yap

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Greate x

I un-lost the book!

No Daniel I don’t want to hear about trade for the 50th time 💥💥💥🔫

Reading this in tandem with my daughter, who is taking a course in history this summer. Archaic though the language be, I find myself quite enjoying it. Defoe must have been quite the scoundrel. I think I shall endeavor to endure a repeat reading of Robinson Crusoe in the future.

🤯 THIS BOOK PREDICTED COVID 19❓❓‼️‼️ 🤯💥💥💥💥💥

no chapters, we die like men

For pathology class

Deze man weet vgm niet dat punten bestaan.

Now i’m thinking the book was really poor edited

So few interesting parts, so sad

Omg it is too boringgggg

There is no fucking chapters omg

It is really a diary

Slowly starting to get better but it's boring and I want this to end.

I have to read this book for a class and I hate this so much! It takes me 1.5 hours to read fifty pages, and I still don't know what's happening.

“But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from them was handed about by word of mouth only; so that things did not spread instantly over the whole nation, as they do now.”

This was written over 300 years ago.

The first sixty pages were a bit dry (although I really loved Defoe’s inclusion of government orders which offered some neat insight into the handling of epidemics before modern epidemiology came into play) but this section was wonderful. Defoe humanizes the plague’s effects on individuals through his short snapshots into the lives of the people HF interacts with and hears about. It’s very compelling!

By god I will finish this book

These people just like me fr

bubonic plague slay 🐀

will the torment ever end or is this book the equivalent of purgatory

“…and that such a prodigious Number of People suck in that Disaster, which if proper Steps had been taken, might, Providence concurring, have been avoided, and which, if Posterity think fit, they may take a Caution, and Warning from…” lmaooooooo 2020 proved that we did not, in fact, take caution and warning from

DeFoe I respect ur game and contribution to the novel but oh my lord this feels like slogging through waist deep mud

assigned for novel lit course || reading a plague book while living in a new pandemic shaped world…….tea

Super interesting, after all that every one of us has been through in the early 2020's! So many similarities.

Thank god i wasn't born in the 18th century they talk so goofy this is making me want to blow my brains out

"..but thousands of them having stayed in London till nothing but desperation sent them away, death overtook them on the road, and they served for no better than the messengers of death:"

I didn't think this book would hold my attention but the way he weaves the stories together is captivating