Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Dịch Hạch by Albert Camus

35 reviews

veni_vidi_legi's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

I wish I could say something exceedingly profound about this book, but I’m not quite sure what I could say that the book itself hasn’t already said. It was rather long, but I didn’t especially mind. I liked it. It was very thoughtful and Camus had a way of portraying human emotions and behaviors extremely accurately. I feel like I’ll think back on this book for a while

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Grief

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Violence

booktok_hater's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide and Mass/school shootings

jataraxia's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence

bilbili's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

No bc why didn’t anyone tell me this book’s so gay??

Kinda long but I feel like it was worth it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

ghost_rider's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide attempt

honeyvoiced's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence

blaubeerkokain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

A good read if you want to get into existentialism but don’t wanna start with dry essays. Still thought provoking long after you’ve finished.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death and Medical content

musicalpopcorn's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Colonisation

toffishay's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

There exploration of collective grief and suffering in this book reached into my chest, grabbed my heart and squeezed, and won't let go. I think that this will stay with me for a while. The straightforward writing perfectly and bluntly described the despair of dying and living in a plague. Simple sentences described unimaginable death and sadness. 

The book is explicit that in a situation like this, there are no heroes. There are people hurting and healing and hurting all over again. Life is both paused and unending in a time of isolation and confinement. While not being heroes, the names characters that we do follow help connect with the world and give you something to hold onto in the midst of a huge collective event. Dr. Rieux especially won't get out of my head, but all of the characters are complex and layered. Through their inner thoughts and especially through their interactions with each other and their community, you see the tiny ways that people seek control, connection, or commiseration in the midst of death where everything, even the next day is uncertain. 

What I have come to like about Camus, that I think could turn people away or be very polarizing, is that he offers a very particular brand of hope. His books, this one included, have a theme of the necessity of human hope. We are looking for distractions, but that can only get us so far and often alienate us from our true selves. Hope offers a window for something new and encourages you to fight for what matters, but hope doesn't always mean that things will be better. There will be pain again. There will be death again. All we can do is work through it and find what's worth fighting for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, and War

clstrifes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Mass/school shootings