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A review by smuds2
Blindness by José Saramago
1.0
How does this book get such crazy good reviews? Books like this - that take such an interesting premise only to turn it into a pile of garbage and still be praised as if they turned trash into gold instead of gold into trash and rise to the top as if they are literary masterpieces, make me more confident in the power of the patriarchy than ever.
Good premise. Terrible terrible execution. The prose carried through by one to two sentences per chapter that are actually moving.
Why the constant emphasis on sexual misdeeds, excrement, etc. these people lost the pivotal sense humans use to interpret their world — and you basically say “they’d probably just act the same”
Absolutely no interpretation of internal changes. In how people identify themselves and others without sight. Absolutely no interesting ideas in how it impacts the internal lives of characters.
Absolutely no discussion of the guilt and stress, or lack thereof, of being functionally patient 0s in a horrifying pandemic.
Very little interesting to say on how people might organize themselves differently given their deprive senses.
And a gang with one gun they have fired three shots from somehow manages to take over 300 people to turn them into automatons? How? Is that the message? That people break at the slightest provocation.
Absolutely disgusting, embarrassed I was seen reading it.
Good premise. Terrible terrible execution. The prose carried through by one to two sentences per chapter that are actually moving.
Why the constant emphasis on sexual misdeeds, excrement, etc. these people lost the pivotal sense humans use to interpret their world — and you basically say “they’d probably just act the same”
Absolutely no interpretation of internal changes. In how people identify themselves and others without sight. Absolutely no interesting ideas in how it impacts the internal lives of characters.
Absolutely no discussion of the guilt and stress, or lack thereof, of being functionally patient 0s in a horrifying pandemic.
Very little interesting to say on how people might organize themselves differently given their deprive senses.
And a gang with one gun they have fired three shots from somehow manages to take over 300 people to turn them into automatons? How? Is that the message? That people break at the slightest provocation.
Absolutely disgusting, embarrassed I was seen reading it.