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What Members Thought
This book left me speechless (which is a rare occurrence). Please enjoy the pictures to illustrate the plot while I recover my gift of rambling.
An unexplained plague of "white blindness" sweeps the unnamed country. Initial attempts to hastily quarantine the blind in an abandoned mental hospital fail to contain the spread. What they succeed at is immediately creating the easy "us versus them" divide between the helpless newly blind and the terrified seeing. Before we know, we are immersed in ...more
An unexplained plague of "white blindness" sweeps the unnamed country. Initial attempts to hastily quarantine the blind in an abandoned mental hospital fail to contain the spread. What they succeed at is immediately creating the easy "us versus them" divide between the helpless newly blind and the terrified seeing. Before we know, we are immersed in ...more
I can *almost* slip this book into that enormous category that is zombie-fiction, but alas, no. There are no zombies here.
There are, however, an increasingly large number of people going blind until there is only one left.
Chaos ensues... one heartbreaking step at a time.
Simple concept, of course, but in this case, it is brilliantly executed. The writing is clear and transforms us every step of the way from our modern society into a cold cinder of civilization, with the fall of humanity experienc ...more
There are, however, an increasingly large number of people going blind until there is only one left.
Chaos ensues... one heartbreaking step at a time.
Simple concept, of course, but in this case, it is brilliantly executed. The writing is clear and transforms us every step of the way from our modern society into a cold cinder of civilization, with the fall of humanity experienc ...more
Horrific and horrible are the words that kept running through my head as I made my way through this book.
The author introduces several characters at the beginning of the book, all within proximity of the first man to mysteriously and suddenly go blind, and follows this group through the catastrophe. The government quickly sequesters all the suddenly blind together in a empty mental hospital for fear they would infect others. One person among the group Saramago follows actually has not lost her ...more
The author introduces several characters at the beginning of the book, all within proximity of the first man to mysteriously and suddenly go blind, and follows this group through the catastrophe. The government quickly sequesters all the suddenly blind together in a empty mental hospital for fear they would infect others. One person among the group Saramago follows actually has not lost her ...more
A masterpiece full of symbolisms that opens the door to unending analysis and discussions.
I really don't know how to rate this book.... On the one hand it's a bit hard to read due to the lacking of paragraphs, a lot of comma's, especially in dialogues making it sometimes difficult to know who is saying what, etc), on the other hand it's an easy read, making you want to know how all of this is going to end (didn't take the book with me on holiday, which is why it took me longer to finish it). I liked the story but kept getting the feeling that Saramago was trying to convey more than a
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This was a much bleaker book than I was expecting. In fact, I almost gave up on it at one point, except that I really wanted to find out what happened at the end. There was also a bit too much repetitiveness for my taste, so some pages I ended up skimming.
My interest and enjoyment in reading this book started out a 4 stars but dipped down to 2 stars for a good bulk of it. However, the ideas and themes presented here are important, and there is much here that lends to great discussion, so I give ...more
My interest and enjoyment in reading this book started out a 4 stars but dipped down to 2 stars for a good bulk of it. However, the ideas and themes presented here are important, and there is much here that lends to great discussion, so I give ...more
Dec 01, 2013
Christina Pilkington
marked it as tbr-future
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review of another edition
Shelves:
genre-scifi
Oct 07, 2014
Navi
marked it as sci-fi-to-edit-tbr
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review of another edition
Shelves:
utopia-dystopia,
classics,
horror,
science-fiction,
first-of-series,
kindle,
2017-purchases-tbr
Jun 01, 2019
Aiden McClure
marked it as to-read
