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linashnewer's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Death
Minor: Gun violence and Colonisation
adrian_crawford's review against another edition
4.0
this bad boy hits home after living thru the worldwide panny. i appreciated the absurdist takes/undertones weaving thru the novel as many of those same moral quandaries b/w god, goodness, evil, “deserving”, and punishment inform my own religious/spiritual beliefs. i also appreciated that while hundreds on deaths happen off screen, or reported as daily tolls, the couple of on-screen deaths help bring the reader back to empathy and the long drawn out, inevitable suffering— it felt like a parallel to the actual pandemic, where thousands died every day but that number doesn’t mean anything until one of those deaths is someone you know or love.
anyway, get your covid boosters 🤪
anyway, get your covid boosters 🤪
mcgregor_callum's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.0
redkitten's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.5
nokia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
anteus7's review against another edition
4.0
You know, I like Camus' style. I read the Stranger in high school for AP English and then again in college for...some class or other and then did not read anything else by him ever again. Why not? Dunno.
I'll have to go back and re-read the Stranger, but I think I like the Plague even more. The number of points of view we get, and the difference between those points of view on the existentialism spectrum was a lot of fun to think through after all these years of not thinking much about that way of thinking. I used thinking in that last sentence a lot...
Bottom line: I liked it, it reminded me quite a bit of what things were like in our own plague times (dammit, COVID), and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a healthy dose of existential dread in their month.
I'll have to go back and re-read the Stranger, but I think I like the Plague even more. The number of points of view we get, and the difference between those points of view on the existentialism spectrum was a lot of fun to think through after all these years of not thinking much about that way of thinking. I used thinking in that last sentence a lot...
Bottom line: I liked it, it reminded me quite a bit of what things were like in our own plague times (dammit, COVID), and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a healthy dose of existential dread in their month.
suicidylan_epub's review against another edition
4.0
Excelente libro, pero me tocó una pésima edición.