the plague albert camus wild to read this after living through a pandemic. this proves humanity and itās reactions to epidemics has not substantially changed at all since the 1940s. usually i am always entertained by camus, but this one is just so boring. itās not camusā fault though, epidemics are very monotonous. itās even written in the book that ānothing is less spectacular than a scourgeā i donāt love the weird third person(ish) perspective āsurpriseā narrator reveal fashion this is written in. the narrator is obvious from the beginning, and i donāt really get what this style is suppose to accomplish. a false sense of objectivity, i guess, but i find it awkward and f0rced. i understand it helps focus on the collective trauma of the town instead of his individual experience, but i think it should have just been first person or third person, not this weird other thing. my favorite parts were the sections about the priest and the guy writing the same sentence over and over again. 7.5/10 so sorry to say, because i love this man Read more