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Thanks so much for your donation jneni!

This book is now part of the 1001-library. If you want to take this book from the library but don't know how to proceed, please refer to the 1001-library bookshelf.

I read this during Christmas. This book starts off slowly, but then it gets really exciting. It isn't the Stephen King kind of plague or Robert Matheson's I am Legend. It doesn't dwell on grotesque scenes. There's no blood, no pups, no infectious walking-dead. Camus is a master in painting the emotions and the inner struggles of the people while they are confronting the deadly plague. It was a fast read and I enjoyed it!

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I'll be sending this out to perryfran as part of the 1001-library book virtual bookbox!

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I'm sending this to perryfran! :)

Received in today's mail - thanks jneni for sending it all the way from Singapore! Hope to read it soon.

This is also No. 559 on the 1001 books you must read before you die list.

This was a rather bleak account of what happens when the plague comes to Oran, a coastal town in North Africa. The story starts out with the death of thousands of rats in the streets of the city which portends the ultimate outbreak of the plague in the city. People begin to sicken and die and then a strict quarantine is imposed on the city where no one can enter or leave. The citizens are faced with the inevitability of death and the novel shows how they cope with this. Some do better than others but ultimately the community begins to collapse. The story is told mainly from the point of view of Dr. Rieux who fights tirelessly to treat the sick. Then there are others who help him including Tarrou who is extremely opposed to any kind of human suffering and strives to become a saint even though he does not believe in God. The book was full of Camus' philosophical views. I read somewhere that this story is actually an allegory of how the Nazis conquered France and isolated it during WWII.

This book definitely is thought-provoking but to me I would only mildly recommend it. It just seemed a little overwhelming and depressing.

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Read this as part of the 1001 list challenge for 2018.

Sending on to a reader in New Hampshire. Enjoy

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