I really liked the book, especially the strange way in which it was written. I got lost in the dialog sometimes, which, to me, represented the feelings of blindness and disorientation very well.The beginning of the book was incredible at showing a society-wide panic that overtakes everybody, regardl...
I really liked the book, especially the strange way in which it was written. I got lost in the dialog sometimes, which, to me, represented the feelings of blindness and disorientation very well.The beginning of the book was incredible at showing a society-wide panic that overtakes everybody, regardl...
Imagine your world turning into a white milky sea? Imagine one minute you are seeing colors, the world so rich and bright and the next minute, everything you see is white and there is no reason behind this transformation. This blindness begins with one individual and soon becomes an epidemic spread...
The paragraphs in this thing are massive... Opening to a random page gave me a paragraph that was 13.5 PAGES long. As excited as I am about this book, I'm weary of it now.
During an 'art-house movie' day back at school sometime in 2008/2009 they showed us the movie of this novel. It left a great expression on my mind as sometimes I still thought of it. It took me some time though to find out that it was based on an actually book. Since then, I've wanted to read it. Lu...
quick read, fairly clear allegory about "white blindness" which strikes an unnamed portuguese / latin american city. same type of Pablo Coehlho slightly didactic , Marquez prose. detail by detail account of degeneration of community and society outside, provides multiple possible readings-- politica...
Wow.That's all I can say right now, wow. This quote from the last page sums up everything, somehow:"I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see."And I shall leave it at that.
Blindness had been on my post-apocalyptic to-read list for months, but a chance encounter at a local bookstore and the chance discovery of a book club—set to read Blindness that very week—put it on my fast track. I bought the book, and I spent three days in its nightmarish, reeking, broken world. ...
A good book. I think that it is perhaps a little overrated, and should not quite deserve the reputation that it has. Essentially an apocalyptic book about the world going blind. It has a lot of philosophical asides which are so-so. Interesting view of human beings.The whole thing reminds me of a...
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