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A review by dorothy_gale
Blindness by José Saramago
4.0
4.4 STARS; THE BOOK WITH THE DARK GLASSES. I burned through 80% of this book in a single day, partly due to a road trip, and partly because it made our current Coronavirus pandemic feel so much more tolerable. Again, I can't help but think of my grandmother and her desire to continue getting monthly eye injections to prevent blurry vision -- if she couldn't see, life was certainly less worthy to live. I had never considered the possibility of a blindness pandemic, and this Portuguese author painted the realities superbly. SCARY AF! This book had a 4.14-star average by 216,989 reviewers when I finished it. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys Dystopian novels, or anyone who thinks the Coronavirus pandemic is the worst thing ever.
José Saramago is a Nobel Laureate, having been awarded just three years after this book was published when he was 76 years old. I will be adding Seeing to my to-read list because I need to know what happens next! I did watch the 2008 movie version of Blindness and have to say they did a pretty good job. Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo are some of my favorite peeps though.
José Saramago is a Nobel Laureate, having been awarded just three years after this book was published when he was 76 years old. I will be adding Seeing to my to-read list because I need to know what happens next! I did watch the 2008 movie version of Blindness and have to say they did a pretty good job. Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo are some of my favorite peeps though.