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De stad der blinden by José Saramago

73 reviews

soffeg6's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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

mariana_ct08's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Vomit

katenovah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Excrement, and Fire/Fire injury

birtelesemann's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sas_lk's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

This was an incredible novel about humanity, about what we can endure and how we still find beauty, joy, love, and simple pleasures when our world is turned upside down. 
This was incredibly well written, and with so much thought, empathy and love. You can feel that Saramago poured so much into this and I think if this does not become a classic, I would be very disappointed. 
At times it was very hard to read because of subject matter, but I appreciated every single chapter, and I feel that not one word was wasted.
This was simply beautiful, heart-wrenching, and in the end, simply hopeful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual content

gentle_garbage_baby's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I don't know what to feel about this book. It starts off interestingly enough, with the writing style unique as a wall of text - barely any punctuation. After a few chapters I came to realise that this style

might reflect the blindness of the characters - they can't see - and therefore can't read - so the author makes it harder for the you as the reader to read the book.

I might be looking too much into that but it's how I understood the choice to write like this. After a while the text got easier to read, but it became more boring than anything else.

I have a few problems with the characters as well. If I was to describe the doctor's wife in any way, I would say she's the type of person to run along the tracks when a train is coming towards her; not sideways to get out of the way of it. Many of the characters at some point say things which I think are supposed to be profound and and philosophical, but they mainly came across as annoying and pretentious.

I really wanted to like this one; I thought the premise was super interesting, but in the end whole thing just kind of annoyed me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rubyics's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

minna_s's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

eelitorr's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

3.0

Great book, interesting prose. However, the content is incredibly difficult to read as it details the dissolution of society. See numerous content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic