A forgotten Novel
Apr 21, 2020 17:45:11 #
Apr 21, 2020 18:03:27 #
Apr 21, 2020 19:02:23 #
I just ordered it. I enjoyed reading a book by him in college but can't remember which one.
Apr 21, 2020 19:06:25 #
dalbers wrote:
Albert Camus The Plague. Anyone read it>
I'll have to order it. Thanks.
Apr 22, 2020 08:07:22 #
Apr 22, 2020 09:16:28 #
dalbers wrote:
Albert Camus The Plague. Anyone read it>
You can get it free. Google "The Plague by Albert Camus pdf". and you will get numerous options to download a pdf version.
Apr 22, 2020 16:50:49 #
dalbers wrote:
Albert Camus The Plague. Anyone read it>
Also, google the Escape radio show "Earth Abides". It is two half hour episodes adapting the book of the same name to radio. Chilling to some degree, describing a world wide pandemic that wipes out civilization and how the few survivors cope with it, The radio adaptation has been sanitized quite a bit from the book but the point is similar.
Apr 22, 2020 16:57:44 #
Apr 22, 2020 17:55:59 #
jim quist wrote:
I just ordered it. I enjoyed reading a book by him in college but can't remember which one.
Probably “The Stranger.” It was a popular book to teach.
Apr 22, 2020 19:54:27 #
Jon_Armitage
Loc: Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
I read La Peste (The Plague) at school. Camus and existentialism were very much the vogue then, back in the 1960s. Of course, I can't remember much about it now, but I also had to read (to contrast and compare) Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, some bits of which did stick in my memory.
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart, is definitely up there among the best SF novels of all time, if not the best novels of any genre. It has been continuously in print since its publication in 1949. Heartily recommended.
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart, is definitely up there among the best SF novels of all time, if not the best novels of any genre. It has been continuously in print since its publication in 1949. Heartily recommended.
Apr 22, 2020 21:07:21 #
dalbers wrote:
Albert Camus The Plague. Anyone read it>
It was a novel, but it was about a real event in the nineteen forties.
Apr 22, 2020 21:30:18 #
YNY
Loc: Youngstown NY (Western New York)
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. About the plague of 1664 in England. An early example of journalism.
Apr 22, 2020 22:55:22 #
Jon_Armitage wrote:
I read La Peste (The Plague) at school. Camus and ... (show quote)
I have never heard such high praise for Earth Abides. I've never read it because it was said to be very depressing. Based on you comment I think I will give it a try. Thanks for the tip.
Apr 22, 2020 23:56:42 #
Camus' The Plague is my favorite book ever. lots of great messages. lots of similarities to today's plague.
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