Which Of These Books Would You Read First?

[sandyRoe]

The Plague, Camus, or A journal of the plague year, Defoe?

[JimF]

I've read them both.

[Mamyalynne]

I'd recommend Defoe first.

[pastafreak]

I'd also recommend Defoe.

[elliemay1]

Had to do The Plague (La Peste) for A Level French and absolutely hated it!

[woofgang]

neither ever ever ever

[Khandro]

I don't know which is best for starters, but The Plague, is certainly de notre temps

[ynnafymmi]

Wasnt Defoes tome not just a tissue of urban legends(of the 17th century),a lot of the things he described didnt happen and were just rumours among rumours.As for Camus...probably another tissue of lies and mistruths.

[Toorak]

What about One Hundred Years of Solitude - could be where we’re heading?

[roopower]

Neither by the sound of them!

[Tilly2]

Sandy, whichever way round you read them, read 'The Plague Dogs' (Richard Adams) afterwards, for a bit of 'light' relief.

[Peter Pedant]

journal of the plague year - goot
also on prodject Gutenberg - the free book download site

plague I thought I wd do in Fransh as it - - really isnt true
I wondered why the Oran outbreak er wasnt like that

and is a satire - roman a clef - on the German occ of France
so the dr is observer ( of course)
some run away
some run to assist
etc etc and I wondered wny there wasnt a strong thread of
and then they all DDIIIIIIEEEEEED!

and it us because the end of the plague = liberation of La Belle France by the americans

[DTCwordfan]

Just take up Tolstoy or Mikhail Sholokhov's Trilogy (which is brilliant)

[Peter Pedant]

who ever said defoe made it up
he was writing I think 1685 and wasnt there
so he had to ask people to fink back to 1665
I fink

oh whilst I am here - I am rotating Police service manual - samned boring - NT gk vocab ( so at least I can read it)
arabic vocab so I can undersand the Black Crows on you tube

MIT 6006 and 6042
these are MIT MOOCs - Mass inst tech - mass observation on line course and are the uni lectures in various subjects
There are literally thousands

jesus we had to go to a Library and read a book

[Peter Pedant]

Mijhail Bulgakow did
Country doctors notebook - tele cersion with Harry Potter
and the book is better - -

I mean War and Peace takes two weeks at 8 h a day