A review by avalydia
Seeing by José Saramago
3.0
More like 2.5.
Setting aside the fact that Jose Saramago is apparently allergic to paragraph breaks and quotation marks, since at least his writing is better than Cormac McCarthy's, the ending of this book left me with so many questions!
- Except for the police superintendent's arc, that was unexpected (at least at that particular moment) and brutal.
- And the doctor's wife?! Just like that?! What?!
- And now there are blind people at the end of the book? What does that mean? Is the city going blind again, or are these actual blind men? Part of me thinks they must have already been blind, since they weren't freaking out and were instead remarking on the gunshots, but you never know...
Overall, left feeling pretty dissatisfied, and also as if the author had started off with a really interesting premise and then realized he had no way of resolving it.
Setting aside the fact that Jose Saramago is apparently allergic to paragraph breaks and quotation marks, since at least his writing is better than Cormac McCarthy's, the ending of this book left me with so many questions!
Spoiler
- Like... what happened to the city?? That was the whole reason why I got sucked into the book! I got a sinking feeling as the number of remaining pages dwindled and there didn't seem to be a resolution in sight, and it turns out literally nothing was resolved.- Except for the police superintendent's arc, that was unexpected (at least at that particular moment) and brutal.
- And the doctor's wife?! Just like that?! What?!
- And now there are blind people at the end of the book? What does that mean? Is the city going blind again, or are these actual blind men? Part of me thinks they must have already been blind, since they weren't freaking out and were instead remarking on the gunshots, but you never know...
Overall, left feeling pretty dissatisfied, and also as if the author had started off with a really interesting premise and then realized he had no way of resolving it.