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A review by rwilhoyte
Blindness by José Saramago
2.0
I'm giving this book two and half stars in reality. My two big issues with it were the writing and that I didn't think the story was anything special. I think the flowery writing was what got it the Nobel prize but elegant prose in exchange for interesting story doesn't really do it for me. I'm not even sure I'd call the writing elegant, in some parts it was so rambling it halted the story.
The story which deals with an epidemic of "white blindness" was kind of weak. I felt like the author put too much emphasis on blindness as a handicap. I've never met a real blind person who was this needy. You'd think for how long the epidemic lasted that the group would learn to operate independently of the one sighted character. I found it unrealistic and kind of blah in the "apocalyptic" genre.
The story which deals with an epidemic of "white blindness" was kind of weak. I felt like the author put too much emphasis on blindness as a handicap. I've never met a real blind person who was this needy. You'd think for how long the epidemic lasted that the group would learn to operate independently of the one sighted character. I found it unrealistic and kind of blah in the "apocalyptic" genre.