Title: The Fall
Author: Albert Camus
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 147
Ok, I didn't like this one. My first read by this author and maybe my last. This story was about some guy talking about how great he is and any mistakes he has made he has corrected or some crap. I don't know. I feel like I would avoid this guy if I saw him coming at me. Reading one guy venting for an entire book was just too much. I am probably missing some amazing philosophical message here but I just don't care.
There were a couple of quotes I did like though:
"Have you noticed that death alone awakens our feelings?"
I think this is true...
"...at the same moment, hundreds of millions of men, my subjects, painfully slip out of bed, a bitter taste in their mouths, to go to a joyless work."
OMG!!!! THIS PERFECTLY DESCRIBES ME GOING TO WORK!!!
Ok, so outside of those quotes, this dragged. Since I am pretty sure I only have one life, I won't attempt to read anything more by this author unless it's more like a traditional story format, which I am used to. It's not that I don't mind try or reading new things, but this tried my patience!
I give this a 1 out of 5. (oh how i want my time back for reading this one!!!)
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