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So, I really wish Saramago would just use normal dialogue punctuation and convention. I can’t see that his style gains much from the way he does it and it’s mildly confusing - not enough to actually cause difficulty but enough to be annoying.
That said, I enjoyed this far more than my recollection of reading The Cave suggested I would. It was really humorous and it’s a perspective I already agree with. Maybe it didn’t add anything new to the critiques of Christianity or religion in general, but ...more
That said, I enjoyed this far more than my recollection of reading The Cave suggested I would. It was really humorous and it’s a perspective I already agree with. Maybe it didn’t add anything new to the critiques of Christianity or religion in general, but ...more
It's a funny book, both in terms of eschewing punctuation and paragraphs (which makes it a bugger to read at times, mainly around dialogue), and in terms of actual humour, although the Old Testament is such an easy target, it can't be that hard to highlight the multiple foolishnesses within it. But Saramago is such an avuncular narrator it's a pleasure spending time with him, and he certainly seems to have thought a lot about donkeys...
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If you ignore the run on sentences and fragments full of commas, it might be closer to 3 stars.
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