Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Plague by Albert Camus

16 reviews

woundedhouse's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gregorvermin's review

dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Death and Body horror

Minor: Blood and Suicide attempt

1ncubus's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

4.25

Eine Chronik. Nüchterne Beschreibung von Empfindungen während eines Pestausbruchs, lässt Raum für philosophische Fragen nach dem "Sinn des Lebens", die aber kaum ausgeführt werden und eher eine interessante Unterfütterung durchaus nüchterner Schilderungen bilden. Die Charaktere besitzen keine genialen Persönlichkeiten, es wird nicht auf ihre Vergangenheiten eingegangen (bis auf Tarrou, vielleicht), sie sind einfach normale Bürger einer Stadt, die nun, von der restlichen Welt abgesondert, versuchen zu leben.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Blood

directorpurry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Animal death, Terminal illness, Death, Child death, and Blood

changbineyeskz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Body horror

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Mental illness, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Blood, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

kibiiiariii's review

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

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

brynnaalterio's review

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Overall, the book is very slow paced and feels as if it is dragged on and on with the in depth descriptions and slow moving plot. The book felt very slow at the beginning, then sped up when they named what was happening the plague, but then slow once again when in isolation. But while this was very difficult to keep reading because of this, in hindsight, it makes sense why the book was paced like this. Just like the pandemic that rampaged through Oran, it came on very quickly and then lingered, slowly dragging out. By pacing the story this way, Camus showcases the drawnoutness of the plague and how once it was over, everyone will forget about it and go back to their pre-plague lives. Camus also does an amazing job world building and creating so many characters with in depth descriptions. From the main character Rieux to even the cat spitting man who caught Tarrou's interest. This book also reminded me about the current situation of the world with COVID-19. Camus described how the people only began longing for those they love who they haven't seen in a while due to being forced into isolation. That's the same with what's happening with the world now. There are many connections one can make to this book. Overall, while slow, it was a good read if you can push through it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Vomit, Animal death, and Blood

Minor: Suicide attempt

mary_juleyre's review

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Moderate: 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.
 

Spoiler

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, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death, Blood, and Child death