Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Blindness by José Saramago

10 reviews

jjb21's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

A great concept. Dystopian / apocalpytic - like The Road, The Passage, Children of Men. I found it slow to read and hard to get into (with not much depth to the characters), but when I sat down and just cracked on it flew by. If it’s not been made into film or TV yet, it needs to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jayvdw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

What happens when the world turns blind in a matter of weeks? That is the question the book tries to answer. It is an interesting delve into human nature when exposed to a sudden and drastic change in one's senses and conditions. 

The book is very interesting and a lot of different events take place. It takes a little while before the main character, the doctor's wife, is presented. The only person left who can see but presents to be blind. Through her eyes we see the conditions put on the blind, the first hastily put up quarantine, fuelled by fear, the conditions that followed, and the world just shortly after everyone has turned blind in a matter of weeks.

The book however is written difficultly, what is said is only separated by a comma before and after the text, and it is not written down who said what. The task of figuring this out is left to the reader. This style fits very well with the book's themes and puts the reader into the mind of the blind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Murder, and Sexual harassment

abijmieds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Do yourself a favor and check the content warnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Car accident, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

f_zanini's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kschuster's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sappypatheticm's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

thenoboshow's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I found this book hard to look away from in some sort of morbid fascination. This book hits different after living through a pandemic teeming with selfish idiots. "This is exactly what would happen if this were to happen." An unfortunate mantra throught the reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders

lucimolri's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Me ha gustado bastante! Mi mayor problema ha sido lo de que no estén marcados los diálogos y que se nota bastante que está escrito por un hombre, if you know what I mean…
Ha sido durillo y tenso, no es para todo el mundo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

annihilatrix's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Truly just so much poop and rape and poop.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

michaelb_bell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Excrement, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail