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Corona /lit/ thread

What are some books to read during a pandemic?

>> No.14934807
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Alright well this thread is basically over now.

Let us re-enact the great debate: Nesquik cereal or Count Chocula?

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Hybris of the young.

>> No.14934837

>>14934811
Except this time it's based young people dabbing on decrepit boomers

>> No.14934959

Decameron is more essential, but Camus is great as we.

>> No.14934976

>>14934792
Wtf is that pen name The Plague?

>> No.14935629

>>14934792
Barjavel - Ravage
Giono - Le Hussard sur le toit (kino putrefied bodies desu, one of Giono's odd fascinations)

>> No.14935696

I've seen a hundred of these threads but I've never seen Dreamcatcher mentioned.

>> No.14935713

>>14934976
Albert Camus, by The Plauge

>> No.14935835

Inferno by Dan Brown has plague in it

>> No.14935841

>>14935835
>Dan Brown

>> No.14935875

>>14934792
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It's scary

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>> No.14935982

The Masque of the Red Death

>> No.14936048

>>14934976
The author’s native tongue actually uses pictographs, the Scythe represents his family name. The full title is Albert Camus: The Plague.
It’s about a superhuman Frenchman with the ability to create sickness in others. Great stuff, if a little schlocky.

>> No.14936484

>>14935841
>Dan Brown
>Bad

Shame you had your first year of undergrad cut short, pleb

>> No.14936536

read the plague part of Thucydides pelopenisian war