<story><title>Albert Camus</title><url>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a_petrov</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll share my strange story with The Stranger. 10 years ago I suffered from anxiety, lack of sleep and high blood pressure.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d been given small pink pills. Took them as prescribed. My condition didn&amp;#x27;t really change.&lt;p&gt;Then I turned to reading. After a couple of other books, I found this list [1]. I read The Stranger. I&amp;#x27;ve felt sudden ease of my anxiety, I was at peace.&lt;p&gt;Two weeks after The Stranger, I read Siddhartha. Soon, my sleep turned back to normal.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not praising these books, neither I&amp;#x27;m suggesting avoiding medical advice. I&amp;#x27;m  just still excited how reading can affect someone&amp;#x27;s well-being.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Albert Camus</title><url>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>Last year, Stephen West had an episode of his podcast, Philosophize This!, on Camus&amp;#x27; The Fall (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.philosophizethis.org&amp;#x2F;podcast&amp;#x2F;episode-170-the-fall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.philosophizethis.org&amp;#x2F;podcast&amp;#x2F;episode-170-the-fal...&lt;/a&gt;). He is notably more sympathetic to Clamence, making no mention of him as &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;a monster&amp;quot;.</text></comment>