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WOW!!! Saramago is undoubtedly a Nobel Prize winning novelist. Blindness is rich in allegory. He portrays the best and worst in man's character. Some very disturbing reading, at times. Nonetheless one of the most amazing books I have read in a long time! The difficulty in reading this book (and I understand much of what Saramago writes) is the fact that he writes in paragraphs that are pages long; sentences go on for lines upon lines without a period; and, conversations are not put into quotatio
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Though I thought the pacing of this book was slow, and because of that I had to put it down and start it again later, I was glad that I did. I was blown away by this book. I thought it was an extremely interesting view of modern living and how quickly humanness can deteriorate when this dependence is taken. I was reminded of evolutionary theory actually, and I pictured the characters as our genus homo ancestors, human in most ways, but something missing. The lack of character names reinforced th
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Merecia duas estrelas se não fosse pela virgulomania.
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