I am in no position to rate this book. But still I'll try to give you some of my thoughts.The way the author keeps all dialogues not separated from the narration (same line, without quote, only to be signaled by uppercase) at first bothers me a lot (even though I did read one or two books written in...
This book was chosen by a member of my book group. I read it knowing nothing about the book or the writer. Not for the first time, I am indebted to my book group as I would be unlikely to have come across this book any other way.The writer employs an unusual style: no quotation marks for dialogue, a...
There has to be a major reason where I will not finish a book. As interesting as the premise sounds, I just could not make it through this book and it's all because of the author's writing style. No paragraphs, barely any punctuation (frequently, several pages will all just be one long sentence), an...
The disjointed, run-on sentence structures didn't bother me for about the first half of the book, but then it started to wear on me. Overall, I struggled to get through the book --- it's an incredibly heavy read with a very powerful message. This is not the book to pick up if you're looking for ente...
I suspect my 3 stars will be a relatively uncommon response; this strikes me as a love-it-or-hate-it kind of work. I'm literally in two minds: I loved the themes, and grew to like the characters, but I don't have the patience for the stream of consciousness style. I know that it's deliberate, with c...
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 fa...
It did take me some time to get used to the writing style - I had even considered putting the book down after the first few pages because it annoyed me...but I continued through and it ceased to even be a minor problem, as I got swept up in Saramago's masterful storytelling. I didn't mind that it wa...
First, I'll start by saying that this book is a masterpiece. I could read this over and over, and still learn something new about it every single day. There are scenes in this book which will remain with me forever, and that's how I measure the quality of a book.It is by no means a perfect book. The...
"Then, as if he had just discovered something that he should have known a long time ago, he murmured sadly, This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice."Imagine that you're in your car, stopped at a traffic light; suddenly the whole world goes white and you're blind. This is ...
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