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Emily McLean

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reviewed The plague by Albert Camus (Vintage international)

Albert Camus: The plague (1991, Vintage Books) 4 stars

The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that …

Review of 'The plague' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

"He wanted to do what all those around him were doing, apparently believing that the plague can come and go without the hearts of men being changed"

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (2013) 4 stars

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in …

Review of 'The Great Gatsby' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"

George Orwell: 1984 (Portuguese language, 2009, Companhia das Letras) 4 stars

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …

Review of '1984' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

1984 is one of those cultural touchstones that stay relevant decades after it publishing, decades after the people and regimes it critiques are long dead. It's imagery and the world it paints is extremely evocative and by far carries this book, despite it's lukewarm romance plot. If anyone reads any of 1984, they should read Goldstein's book. It lays out an almost autonomous accumulation and misuse of power that remains relevant today in every country.

Robert William Reid: Tongues of conscience (1969, Constable) 4 stars

Review of 'Tongues of conscience' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

We possess - for the first time in human history - the ability to completely annihilate all life on earth. Although this book was published at the height of a war now passed, it's key question is remains relevant: what responsibility do scientists bear for the weapons they create? This book covers how the previously separate concerns of theory and application, once the field of scientists and government respectively, merged with the Manhattan Project of WWII. The post WWII section of this book, while interesting, could have been better served to focus on the scientific response and ethical discussion of the cold war, rather than it's focus on how the USSR developed their own nuclear capability.