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    The Fall
    The Fall
    The Fall
    Audiobook3 hours

    The Fall

    Written by Albert Camus

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

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    About this audiobook

    Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality. Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-- now one of the most widely read novels of this century-- in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    TranslatorJustin O'Brien
    Release dateNov 30, 2018
    ISBN9781980029151
    The Fall

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    • 5/5
      Incredible insightful perturbing such beautiful language.
      Beautifully read. I have in the lockdown
      Re read the stranger. And read the plague
      Camus is for our times
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this sombre love triangle where a friendship and crush quickly turn to drama. While the story itself is not terribly original, the writing is superb: the voice of Noel and Julius very different, reflecting their incredibly different points of view and reality. Julius and Fall, a beautiful golden couple, Julius, especially oblivious to evil, envy and darkness; Noel a brooding, misunderstood youngster, uncomfortable in his body and too smart to really fit in.The events slowly build to its inevitable climax; once I understood the different voices, I had a hard time putting down the book.
    • 3/5
      A frighteningly good look into the mind of a sociopath. I read other reviews that talk about how this is a prep school book about love & friendships gone awry, but for me, I could see the stirrings of Noel's sociopathy early on in the book, and to me, it was the central core of the book.The part of me that likes nice tidied up endings wishes we found out what truly happened to Fall (as well as what happened with the body builder chick in Australia), but looking back on it, Noel's segments were in his 1st person pov, and in his twisted mind he just keeps telling himself he didn't do anything and he believes it. My concern during the book was that no one would peg him--that the front he presented to us, the reader, was the front he presented to the world, and would they see what he wanted them to see, or what I saw?And Julius' segments, written in a short & choppy almost stream of consciousness way were at first annoying to me, but ended up growing on me, just as Julius' sweet & simple ways grew on me. But I don't understand the necessity of the William pov's--am I forgetting something that was crucial to the book in his segments? I found him unnecessary.
    • 2/5
      I found this book to be strange. The author's stream-of-consciousness style - only used when writing from a particular characters point of view - was sometimes perfectly suited, and sometimes just totally annoying. And I found the "resolution" unsatisfying. I wanted to like this, and at times I did, but other times I felt like I didn't know the characters at all, and couldn't care less.
    • 3/5
      Summary: Julius and Noel are roommates at a prestigious Canadian boarding school. Julius’s girlfriend is Fall, one of the most sought-after girls in the school. Noel has feelings for Fall as well. So when she goes missing, events are set into emotion that throw them out of orbit from childhood into adulthood.Review: This is the fourth book in my goal to read the entire 2009 Giller shortlist. I suspected even before I picked it up that it would be my least favourite. The subject matter doesn’t interest me. As someone who was in high school not too long ago, I’m all too glad to leave the world of adolescent boys behind, thank you very much. Especially the over-privileged kind of boys that Julius and Noel are. The entirety of Fall is about these two boys who have no other pressing concern in their life but to obsess over this girl. Sorry, but my levels of engagement don't stretch that far. Julius in particular was so boring that my eyes wanted to roll into the back of my head. Noel’s narration was better because, gasp, he was not movie star handsome, super smart, athletic, and omg awesome! But not by much.I don’t know. I feel like there was nothing in the story that I cared about or wanted to read more about. The characters were flat and the plot was nonexistent until the last section. The only reason I stayed to the last page was so I could say I’d read the entire 2009 Giller shortlist. It would have been a mark of shame if I dropped out. But Fall was just not interesting. Since I disliked both Julius and Noel, I turned to Fall to provide some spark. But you only see her through the boys’ perspective. She’s not so much a person as an object, which was endlessly frustrating for me. If we got more into her head, I think the book would have been improved by far. But instead Noel and Julius turned everything into self-absorbed wankery. Even when Fall disappears, it’s more about them than what happened to her. Which, yeah, makes Fall mysterious and tragic, but it bugged me.Though I will give McAdam credit: the boys’ voices are very realistic. They talk much like how teenage boys talk and their conversations run the usual gamut of sex jokes, salty humour, etc. If aliens came to earth and wanted to study the linguistics of upper class white teenage males in Canada, I’d hand them Fall. But if they wanted an engaging, complex story, I’d hand them one of the other books on the Giller shortlist.Conclusion: I’ve had more fun watching paint dry.
    • 2/5
      I agree with one of the other reviewers that I was expecting more mystery from the plot..who killed Fall.. I agree that Colin McAdam did a wonderful job of getting inside the heads of Julius and Noel. At first, the "texting-like" teenage stream of consciousness used in the Julius sections made me wonder if I could continue on with the book. It gave me a headache. I perservered, and am happy I finished.
    • 3/5
      Fall is the story of two very different prep school roommates (intellectual vs popular jock), and the girl they both love. The primary plot point is the disappearance of the girl.This novel brilliantly paints the two main characters, alternating drastically between two styles befitting of the each. Noel is cerebral and analytic; the prose from his point of view is insightful and beautiful. Julius is a social young man; the prose from his point of view illustrates a love of life and lack of depth. The two styles are perfect for the two characters. Noel turns out to be a pretty creepy guy, and author Colin McAdam succeeds in making your skin crawl.But the book’s plot is disappointing. The product reviews and book jacket make it clear that the boys’ love, Fall (short for Fallon), disappears. This doesn’t occur until three quarters of the way through the book. And it is clear what happened. While you do get a sense of shock, there is no suspense or mystery. The plot doesn’t really move forward after that. So the story arc is pretty flat, jumps to a high point three quarters of the way through, and then goes back to baseline after a few pages.
    • 4/5
      I got an advanced review copy of this from goodreads.com. It's ostensibly a boarding school story. Rich, popular & privileged Julius is dating Fall (short for Fallon) the prettiest girl in the boarding school. Noel, a misfit with violent tendencies, becomes his roommate & is thrilled to be accepted into the inner circle & more & more obsessed with Fall. When Fall disappears, the true nature of these relationships and people are revealed.On a deeper level this book is an exploration of narrative voice & of how narrative voice shapes story & what we ultimately can & cannot know about it & about others.Julius' voice is handled conversationally. He appears to us through snippets of dialogue between himself & others & between himself & himself. There's nothing earth-shattering about Julius. He's your basic 17-year-old boy - in love for the first time, experiencing sex for the first time, trying to find out what life is all about. He's not Holden Caulfield - preternaturally intellectual & self-aware - he's something much simpler & much more real.Noel writes from the perspective of a 30-year-old looking back on events. His parts of the story are much more a complete & polished narrative. Noel is also a sociopath, as we discover throughout the course of the novel, & his reflections communicate that sense of close observation, of taking mental notes on how others act & react so as to perform the role of human being with realism.In the end, Fall is a cipher. She is given no voice of her own & exists only in the ways she is observed & discussed by Julius & Noel. She mirrors our experience of the beautiful young girl who disappears & is probably murdered - reported on endlessly, discussed around water coolers, & always little more than a set of pictures on the news.I liked this book. Colin McAdams can write. There are ways in which this is perhaps more of a writing exercise than a novel with a compelling story, but for me the writing was pleasurable in & of itself & now I'm curious to go back & read his first book.