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The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.

The first 1/4 and the last 1/4 of the book I really enjoyed. The middle 1/2 was a bit slow for my tastes however. There are some brilliant passages and in the end I was glad to have read it. I found Stewart O'Nan's novel of an outbreak titled "A Prayer For The Dying" much more gripping.

RELEASE NOTES:

I left it on the pay phone in the entrance of Best Buys.

**Even if you dicide not to read this book please make a journal entry so we can follow the book as it travels.