The Plague

This book manages to make a whole ass plague boring. Or maybe plagues are meant to be boring, and this is actually a stroke of genius done so flawlessly that I didn't appreciate it. Either way, I fell asleep.

(idk I usually enjoy philosophical discussions. I fear my experience of this book might be victim of translation (it's kinda difficult to follow what's going on at a lot of points), and maybe the concept of a documentation of a plague was novel when it was published, but after covid, all it gives is the faint familiarity of boredom.)

((at the reveal at the end that Rieux is supposed to be the narrator, umh, I always thought that they were the same anyway from the beginning???? so turns out I was reading the whole book wrong. Goes to show that I don't think I followed a thing through the whole ass book LOL))

Truly a tale for our times.

Fantastic little read, from a fantastic author. Camus and Vonnegut sort of invoke similar feelings in me, with their “and so it goes” and “life is just absurd”. Love them both.

It was particularly interesting to read it during the start of the Covid pandemic, with so many of the reactions on the book being replicated across the Globe.... very insightful...