Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Plague by Albert Camus

37 reviews

skyeuqx's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I think it's perfect to read this just a while after a gigantic crisis. That I didn't while quarantined or even before 2020. The plague might be meant metaphorical, but it fits a pandemic like it fits all human disaster.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

planecemetery's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

agnesiana's review against another edition

dark hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Gun violence and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Police brutality

kibiiiariii's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

mia7's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Minor: Animal death, Gore, and Death of parent

begentile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

annarodriguezmrz's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Suicide attempt

schwambibambi's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I don't know, I didn't particularly enjoy this book. It was fine I guess but I'll probably forget it in a year.
 

The main characters confused me quite a bit for a majority of the book. I wasn't sure who was who and mixed them up until the end. I thought the author friends died but he lived in the end so who died besides his doctor friend and the pastor??? I don't know. I do know, however, that none of the characters (remarkably all men) were really likable, so I wasn't exactly invested in their fates.
Though I think this was the right time to read this book, you know since COVID is the a thing after 2 years. The growing apathy you developed over the months of lockdown and no social interaction was exactly how I felt these past years, so that was great. I hope our pandemic ends soon and we can have the kinds of reunion like the people of Oran had in the end. The fear that it'll come back stays though.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death, Child death, and Blood

rld1727's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Was very surprised by how much I loved this book, especially as it’s a bit like reading “Early COVID Response: the Novel.” It is pretty uncanny at times, but also rather cathartic. I’m not sure I would have liked it as much if I had read it pre-pandemic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

margztgz's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Having read The Stranger last year, I was excited to pick up my third writing by Camus. However, I can't say I loved this novel as much. I greatly appreciate the absurd optimism (if it can be called that) in comparison to the emptiness that the stranger made me feel. It's like yes! Life is meaningless and any understanding of stability in your life is fragile. But hey, it's not so bad when people can love and suffer together. 

I thought that his writing was very beautiful in some parts of this, and the descriptions of emotional distancing, degeneration, and plague that the citizens experienced is eerily similar to very real experiences of the pandemic. In fact, many of his descriptions were frighteningly specific and made me tear up. Most of the characters I was not very connected to which turns me off. But alas, this is Albert Camus. It is not about connection, it's about philosophy, damn it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief