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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
ensayo que nos da un panorama de que somos unos ciegos con ojos y del Apocalipsis q sería para la humanidad si nos quedáramos sin el sentido de la vista. De igual manera nos muestra que aún predomina nuestro lado inhumano en situaciones de presión y q únicamente se busca un beneficio personal
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
La historia fue bastante tensa. Tengo en mi mente más preguntas que respuestas.
En cierta parte me puedo imaginar lo que vivieron los ciegos encerrados en el manicomio, cuando estuvieron en "cuarentena". Pero muchas escenas, en mi mente también están afectadas por la niebla blanca, lechosa; sin embargo, son igual de crueles e inhumanas como se describe en el libro. Muchas cosas pasaron, algunas de ellas me conmovieron, como la amistad de las tres mujeres, cómo se volvieron una sola, «la única mujer con dos ojos y seis manos que hay en el mundo». Por otro lado, solo un pequeño grupo de hombres fue unido.
Hay muchas cosas en este libro que me dejan pensando, y sin duda estaré pensando por un buen tiempo. Me ha parecido un buen acercamiento a Saramago.
«Creo que no nos quedamos ciegos, creo que estamos ciegos, ciegos que ven, ciegos que, viendo, no ven.»
En cierta parte me puedo imaginar lo que vivieron los ciegos encerrados en el manicomio, cuando estuvieron en "cuarentena". Pero muchas escenas, en mi mente también están afectadas por la niebla blanca, lechosa; sin embargo, son igual de crueles e inhumanas como se describe en el libro. Muchas cosas pasaron, algunas de ellas me conmovieron, como la amistad de las tres mujeres, cómo se volvieron una sola, «la única mujer con dos ojos y seis manos que hay en el mundo». Por otro lado, solo un pequeño grupo de hombres fue unido.
Hay muchas cosas en este libro que me dejan pensando, y sin duda estaré pensando por un buen tiempo. Me ha parecido un buen acercamiento a Saramago.
«Creo que no nos quedamos ciegos, creo que estamos ciegos, ciegos que ven, ciegos que, viendo, no ven.»
challenging
reflective
tense
medium-paced
In some ways, this novel was scarier than anything about zombies, angry ghosts or the AI apocalypse, because it is something that could suddenly happen to anyone due to accident or illness: going blind. In this case, there is something (maybe a virus?) that spreads quickly when people are in close contact, that causes them to loose their sight within hours. Maybe it's just me, but this really creeped me out as the novel progressed and the characters tried to come to terms with being instantly blinded. People begin to get rounded up by the army to stop the spread . I had never heard of José Saramago before starting this book, but when I looked him up, I discovered that he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. I definitely want to read more of his novels.
Spoiler
and put in confinement, which quickly turns into a [b:Lord of the Flies|7624|Lord of the Flies|William Golding|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327869409l/7624._SY75_.jpg|2766512] situation
Had been looking forward to this one for a while, but ended up being a pretty disappointing read. Another example of a book, and its female characters in particular, suffering from the narrow lens of a male author.
It's a decent book, but the asylum part of the story seemed to much of an experiment, that being them in close quarters, them being isolated and observed, and various dilemma to talk about, I also didn't mind the prose with the lack of quotations, lots of commas, and periods are rarely seen, with long paragraphs, Also the asylum story arc is too common that it can be seen in various novels, movies, series, theatre plays, podcasts, short stories, short films, podcasts, radio plays, web novellas, graphic novels, animated, live-action, fiction, non-fiction, in every medium possible, It's not bad perse but it just so common and it's just so depressing with what the blind people had to do in there just to survive, I know that there is a film adaptation but I think it didn't do well and judging from the trailer it seemed bad, the remaining third of the novel with them felt much better for me, less of closed spaces and less experimental, but the choices and dilemmas are still present, I could say that most people writing this kind of story will choose that setting instead of an asylum, but even though it's too familiar being the main setting of most of the post-apocalyptic stories out there, I honestly liked it better, Another thing I quite dislike when reading, but upon writing this review I really didn't mind it that much because it also has a purpose in the story, It's the This is a novel, more or less about humanity, the choices we make, the preservation and perversion of life, It was a little weird to have the third-person omniscient narrator to be giving insights into situation, that sometimes it took me out of reading the novel, but felt kind of being pushed towards an idea or having explained the action of a certain character, rather than having the reader go naturally towards to the same conclusion, All in all this is a decent novel but perhaps not something I'll read again, but if some made a better adaptation of this novel, I'll watch that for sure.
Spoiler
leaving the asylumSpoiler
doctor's wife being the only one, that we know of, that could still see, there's a lot of stories like Groundhog day that have a character that is more or less special, This is not about people curing blindness or a sci-fi novel where in the end the readers will know what's behind the blindness, on how it is transmitted, where did it originate, and why is the doctor's wife the only one that could see,
Allegorische roman die begint met een man die een auto voor een stoplicht blind wordt, waarna de 'witte ziekte' zich snel als een epidemie uitbreidt. .
De roman is literair, met een vaak ironisch objectieve distantie geschreven, maar vooral spannend, levensecht en alarmerend in zijn beschrijving van een samenleving die in korte tijd tot zijn meest rauwe essentie terugvalt. In één ruk uitgelezen.
Spoiler
De eerste slachtoffers worden in een door militairen bewaakt oud gekkenhuis weggestopt. Hier ontstaat al snel een wrede strijd om het bestaan. We volgen de lotgevallen van enkele van de eerste slachtoffers die snel een groepje vormen rond de vrouw van een oogarts, de enige die op onverklaarbare wijze is blijven zien, en de gruwelen kan waarnemenDe roman is literair, met een vaak ironisch objectieve distantie geschreven, maar vooral spannend, levensecht en alarmerend in zijn beschrijving van een samenleving die in korte tijd tot zijn meest rauwe essentie terugvalt. In één ruk uitgelezen.
Un libro muy bueno, tiene frases increíbles. Me atrapo desde el principio, me pude meter de lleno en la historia.
El final no me gustó nada.
El final no me gustó nada.
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail