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José Saramago: Blindness

Thank you for the clarification. :) I'll put Blindness aside (and accept the ending) and keep in mind your suggestion to read Seeing as a great novel!
 
I have to admit I don't like some of Saramago's books. In school, they made me read Baltazar and Blimunda ("Memorial do Convento", in Portuguese) and I couldn't finish it. I really hated it.

A few years later, I decided to give Saramago another shot (my mother always made me, since she's a huge fan os his). I read Blindness. And found it truly amazing. A beautiful story on the human nature, well written... perfect.

Since then I already read other books; I didn't like The Stone Raft but loved The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (for me it's his best).

I still can't read Baltazar and Blimunda... hate it with all my guts.

Dharma
 
Earthlings said:
I also had a hard time getting into this book. Maybe I'll give it another try.
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glad to hear i'm not the only one!

it was mainly the lack of paragraph breaks... meaning that the different dialog/descriptions were together. it just doesn't captivate my attention long enough.
 
my apologies if this is redundant, but check out saramago's newest novel "seeing" which came out last april, and is supposed to be something of a companion piece to "blindness." i haven't read either, but both are on my list.
 
dana/librarian said:
my apologies if this is redundant, but check out saramago's newest novel "seeing" which came out last april, and is supposed to be something of a companion piece to "blindness." i haven't read either, but both are on my list.
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trust me, don't rush:rolleyes:
 
I know this is an older book so if the topic is old I am sorry,
I found this book fascinating from the very start, it's truly amazing what can happen on a societal level when sight is taken from us, the things we all take for granted really come into view in this book. It was a real eye opener (no pun intended) the different ways fear effected both those with sight and those who have lost it. People put in amazing conditions and having to cope with their sudden loss of sight, from page to page were taken on an inside look to the complete breakdown of society. I hope you all give it a read, especially now that I have heard there is a Movie in the works due out this year, and from what I have read the movie may not live up to the book.
I know there is a continuation to this book called "Seeing" I bought it and am currently reading it,
Discuss?
 
Well I just finished it and I thought it was pretty good. I had never heard of this book until I joined this forum so thanks for the recommendation. The only thing I didn't like about it was the ending where they got there sight back all of a sudden. I was thinking the doctors wife was going to get pregnant and in the end she would give birth to a child that could see. I am defiantly going to read Seeing.

I give it 8 out of 10 eye patches.
 
Overall I also enjoyed this book very much, but there was one thing I did not like. During the part when some of the people hold all of the food and demanded payment for it, I thought the doctors wife, I can't recall her name, was very slow to act. When I was reading this part I was thinking, "Just tiptoe over to that guy hit him in the groin and get the freakin' gun!" Other than that, I enjoyed it.
 
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