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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2526.Blindness?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Blindness" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161054077m/2526.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2526.Blindness?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Blindness</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1285555.Jose_Saramago">Jose Saramago</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26468263?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Slightly painful to read, this soon-to-be film (and oh how they will screw it up) is an apocalypse of terrifying proportions: one wrought not of environmental collapse or global war, but rather of a global, collective blindness... <br/> <br/>One of the most incisive, intuitive glances into the human soul, and the spirit of world without sight, without dignity, and surprising hope against hope. <br/> <br/>I would read it again in a second. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/52734?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>